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Side effects of medication

Thu, 05/09/2019 - 13:06
I take lamictal 400 mg, and keppra 1500 mg twice daily for my seizures and 1200 mg of Gabapentin for trigeminal neuralgia. My neurologist added 400 mg tegretol for my trigeminal neuralgia and the next day I couldn't walk without falling down and was having double vision. My dr abruptly took me off the tegretol and I am still unballenced and having bad thoughts. Am I having withdrawal symptoms?

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Hi Lcains,Thank you for your

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2019-05-10 - 11:08
Hi Lcains,Thank you for your post and for sharing your experience. Please reach out to your doctor to talk about your concerns and any potential changes in side effects, behaviors,symptoms, or seizure types. For more information regarding seizure medication and side effects, visit https://www.epilepsy.com/learn/treating-seizures-and-epilepsy/seizure-and-epilepsy-medicines , https://www.epilepsy.com/learn/treating-seizures-and-epilepsy/seizure-medication-listYour overall well-being and emotional health is just as important, https://www.epilepsy.com/living-epilepsy/healthy-living/emotional-health . If you ever need to speak with someone immediately and for more information about our services, support, and referrals please reach out to our 24/7 toll-free helpline: 1-800-332-1000, https://www.epilepsy.com/living-epilepsy/247-helpline , contactus@efa.org , or by callingthe national suicide prevention lifeline: 1-800-273-8255, https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

Tegretol is nasty if it don't

Submitted by Onionapple1985@gmail.com on Sun, 2019-05-12 - 23:01
Tegretol is nasty if it don't work at the lowest poss dose. That happened to me and on 4th day I was ok. Lol, I was lying there paralyzed thinking 'i will be stuck like this forever'. Thank God I wasn't. Watch the gabapentin and pregabalin cos u will get withdrawal if you stop that too fast. Scary drug, people abuse them too. UL be ok, just wait. The old AC always cause weird stuff easy

In most of the cases, people

Submitted by Sravani75 on Mon, 2019-05-13 - 06:03
In most of the cases, people fear to take medicines because of the side effects. The result of the side effects of medication would give rise to new diseases like constipation, skin rashes, diarrhea, headache etc. This happens in the case if those medicines won't suit your body. There are various reasons for the side effects of medication like overdosage, expired medicines etc. Be cautious while consuming any kind of medication.

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