Well my dr. is going to try a new medication on me seeing i was have bad side effects on the last medication. Has anyone or is anyone on this? What are/were your side-effects. I'm scared to try something new, not knowing the side effects. Well i read the side effects but theirs nothing like knowing other peoples side effects.
I was on Depakote a couple of years ago for about two months! I hated what that med did to my body! My hair fell out and my skin got rashes and my doctor took me off of it ASAP! I don't want to alarm you but this was NOT the right drug for ME! Hope you have beet tear luck!
I was a Guinea Pig for KEPPRA and YES at first ALL thought, “This is it we finally found it a Drug that’s working!! That was for first several Years, I was Seizure FREE! Then it happened, Seizure’s started not bad ones, just irrating and slowly became worse as time went on. Then at 10-year point, Seizure’s were a couple times a week or more. Had Zero choice but to change Medicines. Hope the Problems I was having have been taken care of making KEPPRA the Drug maybe of choice.
Depakote was my favorite, ever, of seizure meds!!!! I would still be on it, if I didn't have side effects! How serious side effects are depends on the person....if you can tolerate the side effects, for you, then stay on your meds and if you can't, then make a complaint and change things. Some people aren't irritated by weight gain or losing hair. YOU have to decide your doctors and meds, others can't do that for you.
That's what I'm afraid of weight gain.
YES, I’m waiting too see if Anyone has same Experience with KEPPRA that I did, or at least similar.