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Topic: Women With Epilepsy

Not sure

07/2017 | 0 Comments

I have a question about my Left Temporal Lobe epilepsy, I am 45 I have not had a "seizure" since I was little. But I am starting to have some...
Newly Pregnant and taking Depakote

07/2017 | 2 Comments

I just found out I am in my first month of pregnancy and am taking Depakote. My doctor immediately started to wean me off of that medication due to it...
Breastfed vs formula fed

07/2017 | 1 Comments

Which route did you choose to go when you had babies? I realize with formula the baby won't be getting any of your medication but on the other hand...
Rapid Heart Beat & Epilepsy

07/2017 | 1 Comments

Hello Everyone, I'm trying to help my mom. She's been having seizures for about 5 years now. We went through so many neurologists and she's tried...
JME, Pregnancy,and Being Med Free

06/2017 | 6 Comments

Hello all. My principal question for the group is whether or not anyone has had luck phasing totally off medicines for the length of a pregnancy and...
Auras? Halos

06/2017 | 1 Comments

Hi, Im 20 yrs old on topamax 150mg x2 a day. I was diagnosed with epilepsy about 3 years ago. My neurologists don't know what kind of epilepsy i have...
Keppra and the menstrual cycle

06/2017 | 5 Comments

Hi, I am on 500 mg of Keppra daily, I was diagnosed with epilepsy in 2012. Since October 2015 I have missed the odd period and my period has become...
Lamictal and breastfeeding

06/2017 | 1 Comments

Hi! I am new to this site so I hope that I am at the right place. I would like some feedback about taking Lamictal while breastfeeding. I am 32 weeks...
Pcos with epilepsy

06/2017 | 1 Comments

Hello! New to this website, but have been dealing with epilepsy for 12 years. Recently I have been diagnosed with pcos. After trying clomid for a...
Epilepsy and Peri-Menopause

06/2017 | 1 Comments

Recently in the last year I've experienced four or five episodes of memory/confusion. Basically it goes like this. Mostly it's a dazed and confused...
Epilepsy and delivery

05/2017 | 2 Comments

Hello everyone I am 28 years old 25 weeks pregnant with first baby. My sezuires and not well controled I am on keppra 3750 and lamoctal 475 twice...
Epilepsy Medicine and Birth Control

05/2017 | 4 Comments

I have had Tonic-Clonic and Absence Epilepsy since I was 16 years old, now I'm 28. I have been on Keppra XR and Lamictal XR since I started have my...
Hormonal Epilepsy?

05/2017 | 2 Comments

I had my first seizure Nov 2011 while sleeping. Went through the ringer of tests with no results. Nothing again until May 2013 one week before I found...
Polytherapy and pregnancy

05/2017 | 1 Comments

I'm currently 6 weeks and on two drugs. Trileptal 600mg bidand topomax once a day 100mg. I have really been just been googling and googling reading...
Progressively adding to my seizures

05/2017 | 2 Comments

Hi! I need some help if someone could possibly read this and direct me. I had a severe TBI in 2005 after a really bad car accident, after that I...
Siezure control after pregnancy

05/2017 | 0 Comments

Hi I have (nocturnal) night frontal lobe epilepsy always controlled by medication But throughout my third trimester was having about 5 seizures a day...
What happened to me

05/2017 | 1 Comments

I have a history of epilepsy. Only at night on the right side of my brain in the frontal lobe. But the nature of the seizure I had 2 nights ago was...

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