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Keppra and suicide threats
Sun, 05/12/2019 - 07:06Topic: Medication Issues
I am looking for some help. My husband has been on keppra twice now. The first time was back in November for a month because of a seizure. He had a bad head injury during this seizure so I put all the weirdness down to concussion. The GP stopped the meds as it was a subtheraputic dose. He was started on Keppra again two weeks ago after another seizure = 250mg twice day. Since then life has just gone to hell. He beehaving like he is drunk all the time, he cannot stand upright, he keeps falling over, he is slurring his speech, he is losing track of time, he is doing crazy things like building work during the night and worse of all his depression and suicide threats. His GP told him to stop the Keppra on Friday so he has not taken any more since but he is not getting any better all the symptoms are just as bad as when he was taking it. Does anyone know how long it takes for the keppra to stop causing him problems? We are seeing a neurologist on Tuesday.
I have had loads of side
Submitted by Athena_5ce4563aba984 on Thu, 2019-05-23 - 12:37
I have had loads of side effects from both Keppra and Lamictal - it seems that it is quite an individual thing, whether or not you get side effects, and if you do, how bad they are and whether they go away.That's a lot of Keppra to be on. I was on 1000mg twice a day, and on another forum I discovered that only one person had been on more than that ...