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Zonegran
Thu, 05/18/2006 - 09:26Anyone on it? I'm on 300mg. Been on it a just over a month after a rapid switch from Keppra, had very bad psychological side effects. Trying to give this one a chance, had 1, may be 2 good weeks now i'm starting to feel like I did on the Keppra: very aggitated, anxious, mood swings, sudden depression, feel like my body is trembling/ humming/ full of electricity, feel like I want to pull skin off/ hit myself to relieve the irritation...going CRAZY...anyone relate?
Re: Re: Zonegran
Submitted by IRule on Fri, 2006-11-03 - 16:03
Hi Luna, I started taking Zonegran (for the 2nd time) in August of 2005. I took it before but was removed for 4 months because some lame Neuro was conviced I was faking my seizures...ummmm nope sorry to disappoint you Doc...sorry...were was I...oh yeah I started losing weight about November and by December I had really lost weight. How many MG are you on? I take 500 MG a day. 200 MG in AM and 300 MG at night. My neuro states it isn't really THAT common to have the big weight loss that I had, it is more like 10-20 pounds but I know others have lost weight too. I know every time my dosage is increased I drop more weight. I am now down 75 pounds, but some of it also was from changing my eating and exercising. Dayna