This is a blog about epilepsy. I have lived with seizures for 25 years now and I want to share my experiences to allow others with epilepsy a chance to compare their experiences to mine and to allow those without epilepsy to understand further the condition and how it effects one. I had the VNS device implanted 4 years ago and have posted on that extensively. Please feel free to comment and I will try to respond.
Saturday, October 22, 2005
Meds...
Over the last 20 years I have taken just about every anti-epileptic medicine avaiable. Useually, they will work from anywhere between 1-6 years before becoming ineffective. All the medications have some side-effects... of which some are quite unpleasant. Currently I am taking Lamictal and Keppra. In the past I have taken: Phenobarbitol, Tegretol, Dilantin, Depakote, Trileptal, and several others of which I cannot remember (go figure). All said, I am quite gratefull to the skilled chemists and doctors that work for the parmacutical industry... without them, my quality of life would be quite low.
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