Featured seizure patient discussions on effective treatments

"i am a 45y/o male. i started having seizures about 20 years ago. i now take keppra and depakote er, these control my seizures better than any thing else i've taken. we don't know the cause of my seizures. i want to tell all of you first if you are taking dilantin and feel weak, or have red rash talk to your doctor now! i must get my, sleep limit my computer time, cannot miss, r mistime my meds, and i learned on this website about large crowds. twice i,ve had petit mals at a casino...no more crowds for me thank you whoever you were."

"I have had seizures or epilepsy since I was 16 years old. I can feel mine coming on most of the time. I set myself in a safe place. I have tried depakote, dilantin, phenobarbital, gabapentin; some others that I have forgot. It is a complicated disease meaning what might be good for you might not be good for me, but I will tell from my stand point, it starts with just looking up or anything in general. It has to do with muscle control, there are a lot of drugs out there that doctors will push on you just to see what the effect is. My choice is Valium."

"I had my first seizure. To make a long story short, I have Seizure Disorder. It took the doctors 4 years in which we experiment with other drugs until we finally tried Keppa. After I get the dosage where it needed to be my seizures are finally under control. I went 4 years without a single seizure, but with me stress is the cause for my break through seizures."