Keppra and seizures

My neurologist started me on Keppra about 10 months ago after I began having an increase in partial seizure episodes. I can honestly say that this medication worked wonders on controlling my seizures. In fact, when I feel the very light beginning aura of a partial seizure, I can take 250mg of Keppra and within 2 minutes feel the recession and retreat of what would normally be a seriously confusing episode.

Initially though, I didn't think I would be able to continue with this drug. It would completely wipe me out, and often put me right to sleep within 15 minutes of taking my 500mg dose (I'm on 500mg 2x daily). After a few months though, it doesn't affect me like it did. Now it "relaxes" me, in a nice kind of way. I probably wont be the life of the party 20-30 minutes after my dose, but within another 10-20 minutes, I would say that I would be able to keep up with just about anyone.

Effective: Absolutely!
Side Effects: Very tolerable after adjusting to it.

I have been on Keppra for over a year now due to high risk of seizures and just a general case of epilepsy and since i've been on it I don't have energy to do much of anything anymore. I'm always tired and sleeping. I used to stay up until midnight or so to go to sleep at night and now i'm going to sleep around 7. My doctor started me on 250mg twice a day and eventually had to increase my dosage up to 1000mg twice a day and I do have to admit, it has almost completely stopped my muscle spasms throughout the day and night and it has also made it where i can be around a strobe light for a while before it starts bothering me. But like always, all medicines work differently on different people.

My six year old daughter was given this medication for idiopathic generalized epilepsy. As soon as she started on this drug we noticed a complete personality change. She was a completely different person. She seemed to be possessed while on this medication. My daughter is a sweet little girl, and is very good for the most part, but when she started this medication it turned her into a monster. She was on this medication for about 2 months, and was taken off it when we got a second opinion. She has not been on any medications while we explore additional opinions for her condition (which is very unusual - she does not have seizures like most people do). I would not recommend this medication to anyone.

I have had temporal lobe epilepsy/ partial seizure disorder since I was thirteen. I was put on Lamictal, serzone, inderal, tegretol and a host of other things for atypical migraine disorder (which we thought I had until I was diagnosed as having partial seizure) and NOTHING got rid of my seizures until I tried KEPPRA. I call it my miracle pill. I take 500mgs 2x day and the only thing I experience is lethargy. I take small naps here and there but nothing that really is debilitating. I may have a lower libido and be slightly dry eyed but compared to the benefits for me it's worth it.

Hi all. I was diagnosed 3 or 4 years ago with epilepsy. So far, I have on about 5 different epilepsy meds. I can't recall the first 3 but had to get off them because of physical side-effects. My last one was Dilatin which worked pretty well for a year. I slept great - 8 hours on the dot. Then, I started to have short seizures that began to successively lengthen. So, I was switched to Keppra.

I started at 250mg/2xday on Keppra and now am up to 1000mg/2xday. I also started taking B6 100mg/day. A couple of days after starting Keppra, I started to get slight headaches. These went away after about 2 weeks. I also got a numb patch on the same place on the bottom of each foot. When I went up to 500mg/2xday, the numb patch spread, I started to feel off-balance, and I started to get the "rage" symptoms. I went up to 1000mg/2xday and most of the bottom of my two feet went numb and cold, I began to get slight tingling in my fingers and a mild case of tightness in my chest. I still felt off-balance and the rage symptoms were there. It began to get hard to get to sleep and I would get up unnecessarily early and not be able to fall back asleep. I want off this med. Maybe it works great for other people but for me it I take it at the levels I need to, I won't be able to work or do much of anything.