I’ve been on every medication there is for epilepsy and had some surgeries yet I still have just as many seizures

The reason why I question the polytherapy approach is because I think that there is so many doctors out there that would rather put people on multiple medications then refer them to a more expensive specialist and every doctor have very different theories. My epilepsy has been with me since 1990, I have had a variety of doctors always wanting me to switch my medications up if I did this I would not have lived a very productive life, I would have been in the guniea pig stage for decades. So when doctors started approaching me about this topic my first response is always are you going to come to my house and pay my bills and take care of my family? If they kept on pushing my next question would be are you getting kickbacks on the drugs that you are trying to push on me? Remember if your health insurance is apart of an HMO/PPO these health services are designed to keep specialist costs down and try to care for the person at a very basic level. So I always question everyone's motives. I take one medication by choice, exercise a little and control my epilepsy also through diet. I have every single type of seizure and when I do go into seizures it is usually multiple seizures. Seizures don't scare me however the side affects from these newer medications do. Seizures usually scare the people around me however if someone wants to be in my life they have to respect that seizures are just apart of my life and they don't define me.

Boy, after reading some very informative comments on so many issues, it seems to me that there are SO many different kinds of epilepsy and seizures that aren't even epileptic, it's hard to give a blanket answer to questions about meds. I take one med twice a day since the second seizure and hope and pray that there will never be another. The meds do make me a bit over emotional, tired and sometimes not as focused as I'd like but that's a small price to pay to not have any more of these god awful blackouts. Take care to all. Embrace the day!😊

It all depends on how controlled his seizure are , would depend on how much meds the Dr. prescribes .

I’m on 5 medications and take them 3 times a day . All my meds are put into their weekly organizer. Every day of my 3 day schedule had 20 pills in each .