Briviact Side Effects

I wonder if Briviact is interacting with something else you are taking?

It is very interesting that you had almost the exact same experience with those three drugs as my daughter. We assumed Keppra was contributing to her anger/suicidality but weren't offered any different. When the dose was quadrupled, it became obvious and she was put on Lacosamide which didn't stop the seizures and then Briviact instantly stopped hers too! She had immediate HORRIBLE side effects that mostly fell under the category of vertigo and she couldn't function. She was also on Wellbutrin and when that was removed (there is a known interaction), she was mostly fine. She is nauseous but she has dealt with that since the onset of seizures. She hasn't been on it long enough to know if it causes weight gain but I hope it doesn't.

@earlylonghauler So this medication was a no go for me. I don’t tend to have the same side effects as other people that take medications. Mine are somewhat worse, and sometimes the side effects are not listed as ones that they would list on the drug website or the black box website for the drug. I experienced severe bruising all over my body. We’re not talking just a couple bruises were talking the entire body was covered in bruises. It looked like I was beat up or ran over by a truck and the bruises were bad and very ugly. I also became very aggressive and paranoid. I had never experienced anything like this before, and it was rather disturbing. I would say things that were extremely hurtful to people and not even remember seeing them. For me it was a no. I got off the medication as soon as possible because eventually I didn’t want to eat, and became so thin, I could barely function. I tend to be drug resistant to a lot of these medications, which can be a blessing and a cursing. In this case, it was a blessing because I don’t want to live with any of those kinds of side effects. I also tend to read a lot of medical journals and any kind of warnings with regards to medication’s like this because it one point after I stopped that medication and it was put on another one by my eleptologist, at the time, I know there were warnings for this drug, if I can remember where I saw the specifics, I will post them back on this site so that others can see them. I know every drug has the side effects listed, and some drug also have the black box warning. I read a lot of these things to know what kind of drugs I am taking and how they’re going to affect me and what the studies are on them. I realize that medication’s work differently for everyone and not two people are the same. So what may work for one person doesn’t necessarily work for another person and vice versa. It’s also extremely important to bounce some of these ideas off your doctor to see what is going to be a best better and not good fit. For me it was not a good fit and I was glad that I got off it and once I did, everything improved. I hope this is helpful for you if you have any questions feel free to ask.