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Keppra Withdrawal

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Vereeniging, ZA

My daughter is 11 years old. She was on Keppra 1000mg twice a day. Her neurologist decided to stop the Keppra cold turkey, because Keppra rage presented itself after Trileptal was introduced. We stopped the Keppra on 11 May 2017. Has anyone experienced withdrawal symptoms after stopping Keppra? What were the withdrawal symptoms that you experienced?

May 23, 2017
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Whenever they have taken me off any med, they slowly wean me off. Even when I have had to start new meds they slowly up the dose to avoid the side effects being to bad. Being taken off somethin that quickly at once isn't good. Seems almost dangerous cold turkey

May 25, 2017
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

Jan, I wish you can tell my daughters neuro that...

May 25, 2017
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

if you stop any epilepsy medicine..you will get withdrawal symptoms..I changed my medicine and I had 3 seizures..I ended up in the hospital...so my advice...try not to changes the medicine..

May 25, 2017

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