ZONEGRAN Reviews (ZONISAMIDE)Average Rating: 2.9 (90 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ZONEGRAN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ZONEGRAN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Epilepsy | increased thirst, chapped lips, peeling skin, drowsiness, short term memory loss, stuttering, jerking of the limbs. | Helped a great deal!!! No more seizures since I started taking it!! | F | 16 | 2 years 100 MG | 1/30/2016 | 4 | Daily tension headaches | I feel stupid, mental processing slowed way down and Memory loss. | M | 15 | 86 days 200mg 1X day | 8/26/2020 | 1 | Migraine Prevention | Major weight loss, no appetite ,irritability, agitation, extreme sleepiness and tiredness, can't concentrate. Uti with kidney stones. | M | 15 | 2 months 75mg | 1/9/2020 | 5 | Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy | Increase in thirst, minor slurring of speech at times, weight loss, decreased appetite, occasional hot flashes. | M | 11 | 1 months 125mg | 4/19/2014 | 1 | seizure | My 8-year-old son starting taking Zonegran at 11:00 P.M. last Saturday. At 11:30 P.M. the next day he started becoming dizzy and disoriented. A half hour later, he fell to the ground and had a grand mal seizure. This lasted about 6-8 minutes. In the hospital ER, he had a severe headache and abdominal pains. My neurologist was not convinced it was the drug, but we disagree. My son at age 8 has never had a seizure without a fever--which places him as atypical, and this one was in the absence of a fever; however, he did have a fever the following day. | M | 8 | 1 days 25 mg 1X day | 9/4/2013 | 4 | Epilepsy | some loss of appetite, some fatigue, takes longer to take tests in school, some difficulty with math problems | F | 7 | 4 months | 7/11/2005 | 2 | Epilepsy | Extreme sleepiness ....very difficult to find words....slow thought processing.... has not yet helped with seizures | going to continue for a while longer to see if side effects go away and things get better | F | 5 | 3 weeks 60 2X day | 10/29/2013 | 1 | Epilepsy | Horrible vomiting which caused metabolic acidosis. The metabolic acidosis was almost not reversible and my son almost died. | My son almost died from this drug. I found a 24 page document at the FDA that said the #1 problem with this drug (in adults during clinical trials) in the GI tract was vomiting. It was not mentioned in the PDR or the package insert. I found it on my own and told the doctor we needed to wean from it to see if the vomiting decreased. It did. My son almost didn't make it. This is not a benign drug. | M | 5 | 11 months | 8/17/2005 | 3 | chronic daily headache | minimal weight loss; Kidney Stone | Was so disappointed! Took this drug for 2 months. At the onset it didn't seem to help, but after approximately 2-3 weeks my daily headaches were gone when nothing else had worked. HOWEVER, be sure to heed the warnings to drink alot of water so that you don't develop kidney stones - apparently I didn't drink enough because I developed a kidney stone. I discontinued the drug so that I won't have to go through that pain again! | F | 4 | 2 months | 4/25/2008 | 1 | seizures | Memory loss Stuttering incapable of speech dizziness angry depressed crying stomach aches diarrhea unable to eat no ambition to do anything this is a medication from hell I felt this way 24 hours a day for over2 years and was still having seizures all the doctors did was increase it milligram by milligram now I'm going through the side effects of coming off of it the same thing all over again if they offer you this run like hell find a new doctor they probably own a stock to all of you coming off of it I wish you well God bless | The horrible medication they should take off the market it is almost like an illegal drug that drag you into it put you through hell to go on it and off of it this is the horriblest thing I've ever been on to everyone on it good luck I wish you well god bless you all | F | 1 days 600 | 3/2/2016 |