I've had grand mal seizures since I was 4yrs.old. I've been put on Tegretol, Dilantin, Depakote, and so forth throughout my teenage years and none did much. "Tegretol" only increased my seizures to having it every 5 minutes. That took alot out of me. I'm now 35yrs.old and been taking Lamictal 300mg 2x daily at night for about 2yrs. Since i'm planning on having a baby, he suggested I take 100mg in the morning and 200mg at night. I told him that I was going to have seizures but he didn't listen to me. I've had atleast 4 seizures since. "NOT GOOD." I went back to my Neurologist only to tell him, "I told you". I laughed about it. I am now back to 300mg. all at night and now I'm ok. I have an app. with him again and am going to ask him about this KEPPRA thing I've heard so much good news about....For all of you, pay good attention to your seizures. Write it down, date and time and how your day is going so that you can find out what may trigger it, then report it to your doctor....Thanks for hearing me out.

When i was first diagnosed with epilepsy when i was 6 months old they told my parents i wasn't going to mature past the age of 6 years old, and that i wasn't going to be able to walk, talk, or even write and read. now i'm in highschool taking all acedemic coarses with an IEP. this is because i kept being given different med since i was a kid and finally i was goven divalproex and it's helped a bunch!

I had 2 grand mall seizures (one at home in bed unaware of) drove myself to hospital unaware) about five years ago. Spent one week in the hospital intubated due to complications with asthma. Neourologist placed me on 100mg Lamictal twice a day and Carbatrol 300mg twice a day.Hospital had started Dilantin. Caused too many problem s My seizures now uncontrolled by lamictal carbatrol and Neuronten. Seizures are partial vision , /balance, Speech.unable to work.

I have epilepsy, and I was put on Keppra when my husband and I decided to have a baby. I am currently taking 1,000 mg twice a day and have been doing great. I had no problems while I was carrying my daughter, and she has shown no signs of having any side effects from me taking the Keppra.

When I was 6 years old I had my first seizure, at the age of 6 and then again at the age of 7 I had brain surgery. I wasn't diagnosed with epilepsy until I was 12 years old and began to have seizures again. Medication never seemed to work and obviously neither did brain surgery. To help control my epilepsy I sleep normal hours and try not to stress when times get rough. Weirdly that is all I need and I now have seizures once every other year.

I am aged 38 years and having epilepsy for more than 15 years. As per the prescription by my doctor I am taking Tegretol 400,Lobazam 10 , Torleva 250 in the morning and Tegretol400, Lobazam20,Toreleva500 in the evening. i am having the disease , some type of disorder maximum for One minute period at any time. When the medicine is not taken it happens. The doctor prescribes the same medicines now for more than 2 years and also told me not to take brain surgery.

I was in a motor vehicle accident when I was 9 years old and I didn't start having seizures until I was 33. At that time I had a baby and she was about 6 weeks and I had a gran-mal. I was on a few different medicines depakote along with topamax and I had tried dilantin and it gave me a rash. I am on Lamictal 200mgs and still on topamax 25mgs. I opted to have a partial hysterectomy because I felt that I was having seizures once a month every month around my menstrual period. I have to say it did make a difference but I do still have occasional seizures and dizzy spells that wipe me out. I realize seizures are a part of my life and I am also scared of them.