Questions & Answers

I'm not sure if I took my medicine twice.. Could I have a seizure if I did? I take 2,000 mg of Keppra XR

Has any body discovered random bruises on them while taking any seizure meds? I get random ones then it knots up then starts itching so bad I end up breaking the skin.
I'm scared that something is wrong.

When I do something that is repetitious takes me straight into a seizure without warning. Do anyone else have that experience? Example: nearing a bridge, I can't walk or drive across any bridge if I can't see or know whats on the other side; explaining myself over and over again; being pressed to do something or doing something I don't want to do and anything that is tedious.

Q. has anyone after a seizure begun to do involuntry twitching ? as well as muscle jerks ?

I got a call from my doctor's office today, and even though I had a 3-day EEG in June in Reno, the new doctor in Sacrament wants to admit me to the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit at her hospital for 5-7 days. Has anyone been in a state of the art epilepsy monitoring unit? Do they do more tests the just the video EEG? I told the nurse the last one was $30,000 and I had to pay part of that.

Why is it a woman can get away with anything but a man can't
Men and women can both have long hair. A woman can put it anyway she wants with no problem but a man has it down or in a ponytail
After I've had a shower I sometimes like to get few waves in my hair so I plait it when wet both sides like pig tails and let in dry indoors but if I was to go out like it I would more than likely get funny looks. Why?
Woman shave there legs men don't why? Again funny looks.
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let me explain my circumstances. I was getting a tattoo yesterday when I had a seizure.
it was my first tattoo so I have never felt this sort of pain before. there was no blackout, no convulsions, just a little face twitching.
so I wnt to know if pain can rigger a seizure so I can do my best to avoid another situation like that.

Does anyone feel tired more than usual, jerk in the middle of the night with itching and twitching, feel dizzy, confused to where you often lost your train of thought right when you started the task and have blurred or double vision?

I'm having trouble distinguishing because I'm also pregnant and since this itch factor is not a listed side effect I would like to know if anyone else felt like this before.

I want to know how to live a normal life with seizures and not to be everyone's big problem?

I just started taking Vimpat along with the Lamictal. Keppra gave me horrible side effects and the doctor said this one is better. Has anyone taken this combo before? Did it work? Any bad side effects?