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Does Anyone Get Sick From Their Medications?

A MyEpilepsyTeam Member asked a question ๐Ÿ’ญ
Houma, LA

Does anyone get sick from their medications? I take 450mg trokendi pm, 300mg xcopri pm, and 300mg vimpat pm. I also take 200mg vimpat am, i used to take 300mg, but i ran out for two weeks and got sick everytime i tried to go back upso i remained at 200mg. Along with 100mg zoloft and a birth control pill. I got sock several times while trying to go back up on the vimpat, and afterwards. We know that was the cause, but now it hits me randomly, almost once or even twice every month, that may be aโ€ฆ read more

September 30, 2023
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A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

You take this medicine and continue to be sick along with another of uncomfortable incidents. Iโ€™m not a Dr. but maybe this is not the medication for You. It could be You are allergic to this medication? One problem I had was my seizures were under good control, then things got worse and 911 needed to be called. The company that was giving the pharmacy I used was getting generic medication without telling me. That was the problem for me. You are obviously not comfortable call Your Dr. to try and stop ๐Ÿ›‘ it. Good Luck

September 30, 2023 (edited)
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

Whenever I would have a dosage increase things like this can happen. One thing I noticed a long time ago is if I take anything too close to my AED meds then this can trigger nausea and vomiting. So I learnt that if I leave a gap of about 15 minutes this generally stops it. I have how every just started taking a B complex vitamin with my Meds. So far it's been ok but this pretty much goes against everything I just said.

September 30, 2023
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

I take Vimpat 100 MG in the morning and 150 MG. evening. Xcopri 300 MG. in the evening . I have to eat dinner first before taking evening Meds

September 30, 2023 (edited)
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

Everybody has side effects until there body gets used to the medication and sometimes you can be allergic to something in the medicine it self

September 30, 2023
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

Many people may get sick may not get sick on many medications. Determining on how your body handles different medications may be same as others or completely different. I'm lucky I rarely get sick from any medications. But there was one medication that I was given in the hospital thru IV made me hallucinate. I say best way to take care of this is see doc. have blood test done.

October 3, 2023

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