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Keppra 500mg
Mon, 01/30/2006 - 21:14Topic: Medication Issues
Hello;
I would like to know if there are any online users that have used or know the drug Keppra for epilepsy. If so, have you heard of or wittinessed the side effect of hair loss? I have seen it written up somewhere in the merck manual and on some web sites. I have been on keppra for 2 years and it was just when the neurologist raised the dosage from 1500mg/day to 3000mg/day that it started by me losing my left eyebrow then it went through the scalp and facial hair? if anyone has information about this , please let me know? thanks
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Submitted by pinkangel_82 on Wed, 2006-02-01 - 07:31
Hi there
I am on Keppra 1500 mg in the morning and 1500 mg at night. I have taken Keppra for nearly 3 years now, but I have never noticed any hair loss with me. The side effects I get from Keppra are very bad headaches, snappy and always feeling very sleepy especially over the last 3-4 months.
Luckily, I went to visit my Epilepsy Nurse yesterday and she is now going to take me off Keppra and clobazam and replace it with Topamax. For me personally, I don't like Keppra that much really, but I am willing to try out Topamax again and see how it goes.
I wish you all the best and hope that you can come to a decision of what suits you as we are all different and everyone has a different reaction from the same AED's.
Teri
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Submitted by mrtigre on Thu, 2006-02-02 - 07:08
the neurologist has taking me off of at least 17 different medicines because they just didn't work. This was at a well known hospital in Philadelphia pa. Depekote was one of them. I finally am using keppra but now discovering a hair loss problem when the docor neened to raise the dosage. so he stopped the medicine and began on lyrica.it is taking medicines or temporal Lobe scar tissue removal.
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Submitted by Zidox on Tue, 2006-01-31 - 19:15
Well I am on 1000mg of Keppra along with 1200mg of Teg xr and 2400mg of Trileptal. I have not noticed any hair loss but I have read that Tegretol promotes excessive hair growth, so im not sure if I would notice.