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Epilepsy Meds and side effects

  • 28-05-2013 9:39am
    #1
    XxMCRxBabyxX
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I'm just wondering if anyone has had amy experience with Vimpat?

    I was diagnosed with focal epilepsy last July and unfortunately we're still working on getting my meds right. I was on a trial which which had my seizures pretty under control - I had a few auras and one seizure which I stopped with ativan although I did have to be put on the highest dose - but I had to be taken off this due to suffering from horrible side effects such as daily painful headaches, exhausation, loss of concentration, etc. I am now on 3000mg of Keppra a day but unfortunately this doesn't seem to be enough and I am still getting seizures occasionally so my neurologist wants to add Vimpat. I don't seem to be suffering too badly from side effects on Keppra other than initially having trouble sleeping.

    I have searched online for info on Vimpat and I am getting a little worried as there seems to be a lot of significant side effects - hair loss, memory loss, headaches and others. I am hoping to go into my final year of my law degree this September after having to defer this year so I really don't want anything to get in the way of that.

    Has anyone had bad side effects on Vimpat and would the fact that I have had bad side effects before make it more likely for me to suffer on this one?

    Thanks
    MCR


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  • #2
    emzolita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭emzolita


    Most Epilepsy drugs will have all them side affects listed as possible symptoms.
    I was allergic to everything (including Vimpat) except Keppra , which didn't work. (then Zonegran came on the market and worked for me)
    But it took 4years of trial and error of loads of different tablets.

    Unless you're feeling a side affect coming on, don't worry about it. And I think the headaches are a given with Epilepsy. Whether it be side affects from your meds, or just the link between migraines and Epilepsy, but everyone I know with Epilepsy suffers badly with migraines.


    hope Vimpat works for you


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