April 18th
2003
11:09 PM
To who it may concern,
Hello, my name is christel mahler. I have a question to ask you which I hope you can help me with. I've been getting seiures since 4 years old and i've been taking different kinds of medications until it was under control. I get seiures every week, and my neuroligest is trying on me different medication on me. I'm taking right now, Lamictal 25 mLg and 100 mlg. I'm also taking trilepal 150 mlg which is a new medication and so is keppra 500 mlg, which I'm taking right now. I just got off tegretol XR-400 and 100 mlg, which I took also. I'm taking trileptal now which my DR. subscribed to me, which he just put me on besides keppra 500 mlg. I like to know if the Tegretol that I've been taking,(which I'm off now),if that has side efects like seeing double vision and not be able to see straight and lose balance? Please let me know? Does keppra 500 mlg, trileptol 150 mlg, and Lamictal 100 and 25 mlg also causes that also? Please let me know, Please? My dr. got me off slowly on the Tegretol 100 mlg and increased my Trileptal 150 mlg to 10 pills a day, 5 in the morning, and 5 at dinner time, and seeing double also.
So I told my dr. that I've been getting double vision, and he said to go down to 4 pills in the morning, and 4 pills at dinner time, which I'm taking now at this time. I've been seeing double vision everday when I took 10 pills a day. Since I'm down to 8 pills a day of the Trileptal, I've been seeing double every so often. Why is this happening? Does the medications that I'm taking causes this? Is this side effects of the medication? Let me know. I/m really nervous about this. If this is not the medication thats causing this, then what could it be from? I like to know very much. I hope you can help me? Please get back to me as soon as possible, I really would like to know about this? Thanks for listening to me and being patient with me, I appreciate it very much. Please Respond.
P.S. I hope to hear from you.
My E-Mail is: christelsplace@earthlink.net
Sincerely,
Christel Mahler
March 10th
2010
4:17 AM
I've been on lamitol since it first came out. My body may have just gotten use to the drug and i have seizures since i was 8 , i'm 37 now. So after trying zillions of medications it seems to be the only drug that can control them. I can say as a theory towards my experience: that i do believe it completely slows down your reaction skills and your responses aren't as quick as they would be if you weren't taking it. Now i can tell you too much of this medicine or when you are first on it for probably the first month you will see double sometimes and if its too high for your bodys tolerance have all the side effects as if you were drunk( slurring, inability to control your motor skills-walking - usually lasts an hour so eat immediately) If you have this experience daily and its been over 2 1/2 weeks because your first on it talk to your doctor immediately. They ended up lowering my dose yrs ago so i could function and stay awake. Now that everything is level i am fine and live normally. But this drug is still experimental and everyones body will react differently so if you have any life altering issues that are taking over your ability to go through the day normally your body most likely isn't responding to this medication and you should try something else. I hope this helps. You can contact me directly with any questions: ****** i'm happy to help if i can.
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