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My pleasure @avaaaaaaaaa !
Good to know you are now on epileptologist's hands!
Perhaps your doctor could try to reduce your dosage of zonisamide a little and see how you react on that? I started on Keppra 500 mg twice a day at the hospital (I was on a status epilepticus) last December and I am now on 150 mg twice a day. With that, some of the side-effects have already softened. My doctor has been doing a great fine-tuning process with this medication and with much care (every time before medication reduction he asks for an EEG with sleep deprivation), so as to arrive at a dosage that is ideal for me. Though many people complain about Keppra, it has been the least harmful to me up to now, perhaps because of this fine-tuning process which the neurologists I have seen in 2019 and 2020 have not done.
Wishing you a peaceful weekend!
Chris (@santosha)
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It’s interesting seeing the effect different medications have on people. I went thru a few from Dilantin (worked but made my gums swell and bleed) phenobarbital (made me sleep all the time. Landed on Tegretol (Carbamazepine) that has worked best with no side effects for me.
I used to think it was the cause of my bad memory and struggles to focus in conversation. But after brain surgery my memory and focus was cleared up completely. Still take the tegretol but as an insurance. I was extremely fortunate as the surgeon said no one but me has reported the post surgery mental improvements that I experienced.
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Hi Chris.....was reading thru some of these discussions and you said you started on 500mg Keppra and now on 150mg twice a day. Is that the oral form as I have asked to reduce from my 250mg twice a day and was told the 250mg was the smallest I could get. Thanks and God Bless
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