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Smoking weed whilst on Levitiracetam (Keppra)

Sun, 04/02/2017 - 16:34
I am 19 and have had mild idiopathic epilepsy since the age of around 10. Since starting university and throughout college I've had a lot of exposure to marijuana but alway turned it down out of worry! All the research I've done is very divided, a lot says its relatively harmless and sometimes helpful but then theres a part of the internet which terrifies me (people having 5 tonic-clonic seizures in a row after smoking weed etc). I have always responded well to medication and have never had a breakthrough seizure when being on meds, not even with alcohol and I've been quite drunk a few times. Im on 500mg of keppra twice a day. Does anyone know how risky it is to smoke weed on keppra or just to smoke weed with mild epilepsy? Any info would help a lot!

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I'm on keppra as well and am

Submitted by morrigan067@gmail.com on Fri, 2017-06-30 - 18:16
I'm on keppra as well and am unable to smoke marijuana for my epilepsy. However my mom is a neuro nurse and just got a new journal that said " weed caused LSD side affects when mixed with Keppra"..  however I know that they have been researching using Marijuana on kids and teens to control uncontrolled epilepsy. 

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