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pregnancy and keppra
Tue, 12/27/2005 - 13:01Topic: Women With Epilepsy
Hello everyone
I am 28 years old, female, with JME. My doctor has switched me from Depakote to Lamictal and now Keppra. I take Keppra 1000mg a day. Is there anyone, who is on Keppra, who is pregnant or who has had a baby. There is a ton of information of Lamictal and pregnancy but not much of Keppra and pregnancy. My husband and I want to start planning for a family, but we are VERY nervous. My ob/gyn put me on a prenatal vitamin and extra folic acid. I would appreciate any information from anyone.
-aspepath
Comments
Re: pregnancy and keppra
Submitted by aislinnb3 on Thu, 2012-12-20 - 00:26
Hello..
My name is Aislinn and I am 19 and I just found out that I am about 6 weeks pregnant.. I am on Keppra and lamictal and have had epilepsy since i going into 7th grade and all your stories are truly helping me! I have never felt so scared in my entire life.. So I just wanted to say thank you very much.. I haven't been able to find much regarding it all online. Thank you again!!!!!
My name is Aislinn and I am 19 and I just found out that I am about 6 weeks pregnant.. I am on Keppra and lamictal and have had epilepsy since i going into 7th grade and all your stories are truly helping me! I have never felt so scared in my entire life.. So I just wanted to say thank you very much.. I haven't been able to find much regarding it all online. Thank you again!!!!!
Re: pregnancy and keppra
Submitted by aislinnb3 on Thu, 2012-12-20 - 00:26
Hello..
My name is Aislinn and I am 19 and I just found out that I am about 6 weeks pregnant.. I am on Keppra and lamictal and have had epilepsy since i going into 7th grade and all your stories are truly helping me! I have never felt so scared in my entire life.. So I just wanted to say thank you very much.. I haven't been able to find much regarding it all online. Thank you again!!!!!
My name is Aislinn and I am 19 and I just found out that I am about 6 weeks pregnant.. I am on Keppra and lamictal and have had epilepsy since i going into 7th grade and all your stories are truly helping me! I have never felt so scared in my entire life.. So I just wanted to say thank you very much.. I haven't been able to find much regarding it all online. Thank you again!!!!!
Re: pregnancy and keppra
Submitted by tft on Fri, 2011-06-03 - 14:32
I have had epilepsy for nearly 30 years. I am taking Keppra, but I was pregnant with my daughter using Lamictal. She was born healthy according to standards. In fact she is bi-lingual, German and English. I wait to see if anything will happen with her development, but so far I think she is proceeding ok, if not better than ok. I had four gran mal seizures when I was pregnant. That means that she and I were without oxygen for a few seconds and perhaps a minute or so. I have no idea how she was saved from brain damage (or even I after 30 years). My husband and I decided ahead of time that we would take a disabled child and love her/him no matter what, so we lived through the pregnancy, but it was psychologically challenging.
I worked a lot of this out in a novel that I just published and it is on Amazon. It is fictional, but I took a lot of what I learned through what I lived through and what I picked up from other memoirs and wove it into a story. My experiences and those of other women are in the book, but combined in the experience of the main character. The title is: A Great Place for a Seizure.
I have had epilepsy for nearly 30 years. I am taking Keppra, but I was pregnant with my daughter using Lamictal. She was born healthy according to standards. In fact she is bi-lingual, German and English. I wait to see if anything will happen with her development, but so far I think she is proceeding ok, if not better than ok. I had four gran mal seizures when I was pregnant. That means that she and I were without oxygen for a few seconds and perhaps a minute or so. I have no idea how she was saved from brain damage (or even I after 30 years). My husband and I decided ahead of time that we would take a disabled child and love her/him no matter what, so we lived through the pregnancy, but it was psychologically challenging.
I worked a lot of this out in a novel that I just published and it is on Amazon. It is fictional, but I took a lot of what I learned through what I lived through and what I picked up from other memoirs and wove it into a story. My experiences and those of other women are in the book, but combined in the experience of the main character. The title is: A Great Place for a Seizure.