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Topic: My Epilepsy Diary

Keppra

01/2011 | 7 Comments

I take Keppra 250mg once a day. I have noticed that by 6 in the evening I get some dizzy spells. I am supposed to take 250 twice a day but I am very...
starting a new med today

01/2011 | 3 Comments

For the past year I have been on Keppra 250mg twice daily. It has controlled my seizures but all year I have had a really bad temper,get dizzy spells...
Psychogenic seizures

12/2010 | 2 Comments

Anyone familiar with Psychogenic seizures? I have had what I thought to be absence seizures since I was little and I am currently 32 now. I was...
Lamictal and Keppra

12/2010 | 12 Comments

I am currently on Keppra and have been on it for almost a year. I am having side effects that are affecting my daily life. I am very depressed and get...
Breakthrough Seizures

12/2010 | 10 Comments

I had my first seizure in 2008 and the doctors preformed all the test such as EKG, EEG, MRI and Cat scans and everything came back normal so they put...
Heightened Sensations

11/2010 | 4 Comments

It seems on days that I have seizures and just some other days I have heightened senses. I usually notice it when I do the laundry because I can...
Does this mean I have Epilepsy?

11/2010 | 3 Comments

The past few days have been strange and confusing so I decided to come here and ask those who are living with epilepsy if this sounds familiar. A few...
Extreme Emotional Response seizure?

11/2010 | 8 Comments

I have Grand Mal Epilepsy. I take my medications regularly and haven't had a seizure in over two years. My seizures are pretty typical, except when I...
What It's like for me.

11/2010 | 2 Comments

Sometimes I wonder I have Epilepsy or not because when I was in the hospital for three days I had several test run from CTR, to Heartographs because...
Uncontrollable shaking

10/2010 | 2 Comments

Hi people, I just wanted to ask a question, and find out if anyone has had anything similar or if it is just literally me...I suffer with Grand-Mal...
Epilepsy and Ecstasy

10/2010 | 8 Comments

Hey guys! Okay so i am 21 and i have never taken ecstasy before but i really want to try it. I was planning on taking one pill this weekend for a show...
Alteration in mood following a seizure

10/2010 | 8 Comments

I had my second seizure a few days ago...my own darn fault because I ran out of dilantin and my usual pharmacy told me they could no longer fill it...
New Seizures?

09/2010 | 1 Comments

My daughter had her first seizure at the age of 4. She was sound asleep in her bedroom and I luckily had a baby monitor in the bedroom next to hers...
Hello

09/2010 | 1 Comments

Hello everyone. My name is Joe Duncan and my wife Betty Duncan has epilepsy. On Sunday, September 12th, she had her first siezure in 6 years. The...
new seizures

09/2010 | 2 Comments

i have had absence seizures since i was 7 im now 38 no grandmals when i was 14 i was put on phenobarbital which worked well i did have a grandmal...

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