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Can anyone suggest any other medication besides Keppra for seizures?

Posted by 1710dave @1710dave, Aug 18, 2020

Can anyone suggest any other medication besides keppra for seizures.These pills are destroying my brain and body.The pill attacks my miscle so bad I cannot walk some times the pain is so bad in my legs.The pill is like a statin and it does damage to your muscle and tendons it is calls rhabdomyolysis.The doctors are no help at all, they just say all the pills have side effects and leave it at that.Hope someone has a suggestion.Thank you Dave

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earlylonghauler | @earlylonghauler | Sep 10 1:41pm
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@tonyde

Do you know how real the risk is? I want to have it but concerned over the risk. I foolishly tried to reduce my medication a few years and it put me in the hospital I had another seizure in the hospital and overheard the nurse telling the neurologist that they called in the stroke team.

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The goal of the study is to induce and study a seizure while you have all those electrodes on, in a safe controlled environment, with medical staff on hand. Everyone’s risk is different, and you have to weigh the potential cost/benefit. I talked to my neurologist of course but also family before I decided to do it. It’s important you have a clinical team you trust. I resisted the test at first, but after a year of drug-resistant seizures, I figured it was better to do the test than not do it. The seizure I had as part of the study was minor - but enough for them to know where my seizures originate and what type of epilepsy I have.

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