KEPPRA Reviews (LEVETIRACETAM)Average Rating: 2.7 (198 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare KEPPRA with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR KEPPRA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | simple partial seizures | a little skiddish and un-nerved. For example, someone honking a horn will put me over the edge for awhile. insomnia... but feel pretty sharp. | Taking as a suppliment to lamictal. Needed as a result of a tumor removal. | M | 7 years | 3/29/2009 | 4 | For migraine prevention | Keppra has cut my amount of migraines in half.Works very well.Have gained 13 pounds though unfortunately.And thats with no increase in appetite. | F | 3 months 500MG | 3/23/2016 | 2 | recurrent meningeoma | Aggression arguementative weepy emotional mood swings sleeplessness | F | 10 days 250mg | 4/19/2015 | 3 | my son has seizures. he takes it | he was very tired, and very moody!! and later he was falling a lot. which is one of the side effects from the medicine!! | I did not like this medicine at all. he fell all the time, i know he was young, but it was a constant thing, after they switched his medicine he stopped falling. he was also sooooo cranky!!!!! and it didnt help much with his seizures (he was 2 at the time he was on this medicine) | M | 2 | 6ml 2X day | 5/29/2011 | 3 | Generalised clonic tonic seizures | Sleepy for first while but good effect from drug. Needed other drugs added over time as was seizure free on Keppra for a year then things changed. Status over eight times in a few months. And seizures would be 45 mins to 6 hours long. Now on lamotrigine and epliem and things are brilliant. Only seizing once every 15-20 days for a ten min clonic tonic. This i would recommend. We have tried clobazam phenytoin etc but this is the best mix | F | 5 | 5 years 600mg bd | 1/6/2014 | 2 | Seizures | Anxiety, depression, rage that subsided 2-3 weeks after each med increase; after reaching a therapeutic dose, increased seizures. | M | 7 | 3 months | 9/22/2007 | 1 | Absence seizures | Suicidal ideation and depression with very little efficacy in controlling seizures. Horrible fits of rage and overall apathy in all things. Keppra was a nightmare! | F | 12 | 3 months 500 mg bid | 2/28/2014 | 1 | One spasm episode | Almost every bad horrible thing mentioned. My son is gone. Depressed all the time, angry, no energy, socially mute (even with brother which is his side kick), won't eat, won't do school work, cusses constantly, won't listen at all, hums (his answers are even hums, if he answers)! He is a zombie!! He knows something's wrong cause he started hiding the Keppra 2 days after we got home from hospital so now I have to make him take it cause one thing that can happen if u miss a dose is a real seizure. I'm terrified! I want my child back! Doctor says seizure disorder & the fact is he was extremely sick when the spas happened that I truly believe it was febrile no matter him being 12 or not. He told me after the fact his throat was clogged & his nose too when this happened in his sleep cause a severe sinus infection in the van. CT scan & MRI normal, my son is very emotional & I guess u can say my weak link with coping. I passed down to him a sleeping disorder that many people grow out of when they grow up called night terrors which stems from family stress & tragedies which my own family has been through. I have researched til my eyes bleed to see why they say seizure disorder after one episode. EEG they say had epileptic charges which can easily be mistaken for psychogenic or very well spinal cord infections. They didn't even do a spinal tap to rule out any thing from that.Now being treated for sinus infection I'll never know causethe antibiotic could have gotten | Do not take Keppra. Get off slowly but GET OFF! Severe side effects are also possible: mental disability, heart failure, kidney failure, liver failure, learning disability, etc!! Also good chance of seizure if u miss a single dose!!! | M | 12 | 3 weeks 750 mg 2 x | 4/4/2019 | 3 | Seizure disorder | Not helping with my seizure disorder | M | 14 | 5 months 3000 | 8/23/2015 | 5 | FOR SEIZURE | NONE | F | 16 | 2 times | 6/16/2009 | 1 | Seizures | Extreme overreactions to normal situations. I became very depressed and cry a lot. I also can become very angry and also quite tired. | A horrible medication , created a lot more problems than it fixed. | F | 16 | 3 weeks | 11/24/2014 | 4 | Myoclonus | SLEEPINESS! I just want to sleep all the time, which is a problem cos I have a busy school and social life. Also, irritability but I don't know if this is just when I can't sleep. Short but quite severe headaches. | I haven't been on Keppra long (still in the process of upping the dose) but I am seeing an improvement that I haven't had on other drugs, hence the higher rating. Although I have had side effects I am coping ok with them at the moment and I'm hopeful that I'll get used to it after a while. | F | 17 | 2 weeks 250 2X day | 4/15/2011 | 1 | Social Anxiety | Depressed, Suicidal, Impulsive | This overruled my mood stabilizer (lamictal). I became extremely depressed and impulsive. I overdosed THREE times while on this medication. | F | 17 | 2 weeks | 3/13/2008 | 5 | my son started having seizures | This medicine has worked well with minimal side effects.. some mood swings in beginning but he also takes 20 mg of prozac daily and that has leveled out his behavoirs. My son is also autistic and has had behavior probs all his life but no major issues with Keppra.seems to be doing great for him! | M | 18 | 1 years 1500mg | 4/14/2016 | 5 | Temporal Lobe Seizures | No side effects | I have been strugling with TLS for a long time. Lots of medicines later. I switched doctors and he suggested taking Keppra. I have not had a seizure since!!! | M | 19 | 8 months | 5/27/2002 | 2 | Epileptic | Although this drug has paused my seizure activity, I feel like a different person. The first month my mood swings were unreal and almost indescribable. I'd wake up so happy in the morning and be depressed by around 4-5pm. I was and still am fatigue all the time, and little things like walking up the stairs make me out of breath. I also let little things piss me off and unfortunately take it out on the people around me. I have lost 10 pounds since I've started this medication, I have no desire to eat even though I know my body needs food. I feel like Dorry from finding nemo and it makes me embarrassed at times. My friends will tell me something and I'll completely forget what they said and ask them about it a few minutes later. Or I'll begin to tell a story and forget what story I was going to tell. I hate what this medicine has done to me. I am 19 years old and college is supposed to be the best time of my life. It's hard enough not being able to drink/drive, but its another thing to b | F | 19 | 2 months 750MG 2X day | 5/12/2017 | 2 | Grand mal seizures | Memory loss, tired all the time, no motivation, loss of personality, random dizziness. The main side affect I've noticed more than any is that I'm totally different on keppra.. I can't crack jokes, I don't understand easy tasks sometimes, can't multitask at all, tired when awake, awake when I go to bed. | It doesn't really stop seizures until you get up to the right dose, which took me about 4 months, if I have another seizure I up my dose again. If you're lively in your friendship group, you won't be after keppra. | M | 19 | 6 months 2000mg | 1/28/2016 | 1 | Grand mal seizures | Severe tiredness, weakness, lack of sociability, not laughing anymore, crying spells for no reason at any time and even occurs waking from sleep in middle of the night, weak balance and mobility, vomiting once a month, nausea, irritability. Terrible drug, found that I wasted all these years taking it because during stressful situations whether able to feel that stress is tolerable or not, I still had grand mal seizures. Wasted years and money on a drug that has only caused more problems and never really helped. | This drug should be banned especially for children and teenagers. It affects social life and if you have seizures because of stress, DO NOT keep taking a medicine like this that only adds more unnatural stress. Make your neurologists listen if you complain about depression and don't take neglect for an answer. The longer you stay on keppra, the worse the side effects get. It is ruining my relationship and social atmosphere. The first solution the neurologists or doctors always think is to increase the keppra any time I have a grand mal. Don't do it! Ask about a special diet and to be referred to a dietitian. Do anything to stay away from this drug. If your neurologist tells you that your epilepsy isn't bad enough to be on the Atkins or ketogenic diet, stand your ground. They don't know how it feels. Neurologists keep prescribing this drug and increasing it, knowing they will get money out of it. If your neurologist won't listen, switch doctors ASAP! I've done my research. I knew I needed to be off of this the 2nd year of taking it but was forced to be on it longer. Now it's been 4 years and many neurologists are crooks. I'm angry about this medicine and I'm angry about how I've been treated. I don't want a temporary solution, I want a treatment and keppra is far from that. Taking Lamictal now, and realize how bad keppra has affected me, transitioning off of keppra (8 more weeks!), and considering a special diet. If you feel depressed and crazy, it's not you. It's the keppra! | F | 19 | 4 years | 7/30/2017 | 1 | tonic siezures | mood swings like crazy, hyper and sleepy simultaneously, talkative,outgoing, irritable, violent,drowsy, memory loss, conentration problems, dizziness, IT SUCKS (my first week stillthough) and I feel like I will lose my head! | KEPPRA SUCKA SO FAR!!! IT makes me feel like I am about to go off my rocker. So nuts. I want to fight and cry and sleep and I THINK irrationally. Like I skip class, cant organize thoughts, get hyper, tell people off without fear when they mess w/ me and I was so shy and quiet before. I am more talkative now, but it is not a great feeling to go from a mouse to a tiger. I feel Bi-Polar!!! | F | 19 | 1 weeks | 1/20/2005 | 3 | Epilepsy-Grand Mal Seizures | weight gain (20lbs in 2 months), lethargy, nausea, severe depression | It worked well, but it did not control myoclonic seizures, only the grand mal. Side effects were a b*tch. | F | 20 | 2 years | 6/19/2007 |
KEPPRA (LEVETIRACETAM): Levetiracetam is used with other medications to treat seizures (epilepsy). It belongs to a class of drugs known as anticonvulsants. Levetiracetam may decrease the number of seizures you have. FDA Approval Date: 1999-11-30 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)