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Can anyone suggest any other medication besides Keppra for seizures?
Epilepsy & Seizures | Last Active: Sep 10 1:41pm | Replies (141)Comment receiving replies
@tonyde
Your very lucky you got your seizures under control in a few years. Some of these Neurologists are dumb as a rock.
When you had a seizure and went to the hospital, did you go into status epilepticus where your seizure lasted longer than normal and they had to give you possibly various medicines to stop them or did they put you into an induced coma?
I too five different seizure meds a day. I originally took Dilantin, it was the go-to drug 60 years ago because there wasn't much of a choice back then, 4 or 5 seizure meds that I know of and almost 40 today.
You mentioned “One hospital-based neuroloist suggested I be put in the hospital for 5 days with no seizure drugs to bring on a seizure and determine their cause.” Are you talking about an Epilepsy Center to locate the seizure focus (where the seizure begins) which is different than the cause?
Take care,
Jake
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I was unconscious for 8 hours during the seizure that caused my most recent hospital. I don't know if it was one seizure or multiple seizures. My hospital record states I had blood and urine tests, chest X-ray and brain CT scan. I have no memory of any of them.
The hospital neurologist wanted me to be put in the same hospital and have seizures brought on under the safety of a hospital environment. The purpose was to determine the cause and extent of my seizures to be determined by another neurologist with an epilepsy backgound.
My wife and I suspect it was more money oriented than medical care.
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When I was being treated at Yale they put me in a controlled environment without any seizure medication in hopes they could witness me having a seizure. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to have a seizure in a controlled setting. I believe that when you are in such a controlled setting without the normal every day stress, etc you can’t have one.