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Topic: Medication Issues

Lamictal Causing Panic Attacks

01/2019 | 5 Comments

Hello all, I recently been put back on lamictal (lamotrigine ) 100mg. and suppose to take two a day. Once in the morning and once at night. I take a...
MEDICATIONS

01/2019 | 1 Comments

You may remember from our past correspondence, my name is Kris Waldrip and after being in a coma for 40 days in 2016 and was diagnosed under the...
Valproic Acid Issues

01/2019 | 2 Comments

Having a few issues with my Valproic Acid. Its the first medication I've ever used for Epilepsy. I've had numerous tonic clonic seizures for 2 years...
Phenytoin transition to Lamictal

01/2019 | 1 Comments

I recently began taking lamictal over the past month, with a gradual dosage from 25mg to 100mg (50-am/50-pm), in addition to my 400mg of Phenytoin. I...
JMD and KEPPRA

01/2019 | 5 Comments

Hi My daughter 9 years old , has just been diagnosed with Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy , according to an EEG test done on the 9th of January . after...
Severe Dizziness

01/2019 | 1 Comments

Hi, my name is Rachael and I was “diagnosed” with epilepsy about a year and a half ago. The ER put me on Keppra (which apparently made me grumpy but...
Briviact

12/2018 | 4 Comments

I am 32F who has had E since I was 15. I recently went to the Mayo Clinic in Arizona and they decided to start me on a newer medication, Briviact, As...
Medication

12/2018 | 3 Comments

Hello everyone! My name is Tom and I’m 21 yo. I had my first gran mal in the summer of 2017. Ever since, I had been using Levelanz (it is basically...
Dilantin dosing

12/2018 | 1 Comments

I had my first seizure in 1994. Before any testing was done, my family doctor prescribed Dilantin and told me to start taking it, which I have been...
Medication for anxiety/panic and seizures

12/2018 | 2 Comments

I wrote a longer post but i accidentally hit the wrong button and it’s gone. Long story short. I have been seizure free since stopping tegretol in...
Viibryd or Levothyroxine?

12/2018 | 0 Comments

Hi everyone! I finally have become more comfortable and also curious if there are others out there who have possible had a similar experience as mine...
Zarontin side effects?

12/2018 | 2 Comments

I'm new to the group, hello everyone. My 7yr old son was diagnosed last March with absence epilepsy, we started him on Depakote and 3 months later his...

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