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Topic: Medication Issues

Trileptal...False sense of well being

07/2005 | 4 Comments

Keeping reading about a"false sense of well being" being a common side effect of Trileptal...does anyone know what exactly this means???? Thanks!
Medication and creativity

06/2005 | 3 Comments

Ok, this may sound completely odd, but I think that my medication may be having an effect on my creative ability. I had simple partials for about 1...
Anyone here have JME??

06/2005 | 10 Comments

Hi, I just wanted to see who all has JME, what meds they are on, for how long, what bothers you the most about this annoying syndrome, what age were...
Lexapro and Seizures

06/2005 | 6 Comments

HI, I had my first and only 2 seizures on May 14, very scary, and they have since been controlled with Dilantin. Since I never had seizures before and...
Ambien and depakote

06/2005 | 6 Comments

Hi everyone, I have had seizures since I was 15, i am now 31. I was seizure free for 8.5 years until recently had 2 in 2 months. The first one was...
My Tegretol level was 0

06/2005 | 17 Comments

Hello, I'm on disability so I get medicaid.I can't take anything but original Tegretol.My State decided wanted save some money.My neuro talked medical...
Possible cure for absence seizures

06/2005 | 167 Comments

I am an MD. My daughter suffered from temporal lobe partial absence seizures from age two. Many medicines helped but none were fully effective.Based...
Myoclonic seizure sufferers?

06/2005 | 2 Comments

Anyone else here, suffer with Myoclonic seizures? I'm on epilim 1500mg daily. Even with a full dosage, when say... typing, or especially when playing...
Tegretol

06/2005 | 39 Comments

Hi, just wondering if anyone has taken Tegretol?I was put on it about 2wks.ago for my seizures,but it does not seem to be helping.Has anyone else had...
Has anyone been taking Neurontin

06/2005 | 10 Comments

I am also new to this site, and like to welcome any new feedbacks on neurontin. My husband acquired severe brain damage from a work accident. The...
Best medication?

06/2005 | 12 Comments

Hello from sunny Ireland! First time caller, so please go easy if I mess something up!! Basically, I had my first and only Grand Mal seizure three...
WAITING FOR DIAGNOSES MEDICATION??

06/2005 | 12 Comments

My daughter is 8 and just finished her VEEG on Wed. I am not sure as to whether or not she should take meds if she is diagnosed with epilespy. I have...
Gotta question...

06/2005 | 1 Comments

Hello to all, I have complex partial seizures due to a brain abcess I had in 1990. Since 1992 I started having seizures due to the damn scar tissue...
Valium addict.

06/2005 | 1 Comments

Hello,I'm a newbie here..I had epiplepsy since 2001.. Strange attacks.. they last more than an hour .. maybe three or four attacks in a row and some...
lamictal causing headaches?

06/2005 | 20 Comments

For some reason I have been getting really bad head aches just out of the blue. do you think it could have anything to due with me taking lamictal, or...

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