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 | seizure disorder | Initially, sleepiness. That went away after a few months. Then the emotional issues kicked in, all my emotionals are maginfied. | Generic keppra is not the same. Had migraines and night seizures on it. | F | 48 | 10 months | 1/6/2009 | 4 | posttraumatic epilepsy | I started taking Keppra immediately after having a craniotomy, so a lot of what I've now found out are side effects I initially attributed to the surgery. It makes me retain water like you wouldn't believe - goodbye chin! I'm also pretty slow to think when I take it. | Optimizing my dosage has really helped with the side effects, but I'm going to give it a few weeks to find out if it's enough to keep me from having seizures. | F | 26 | 6 months | 10/2/2008 | 1 | Post Surgery | Horrible aggitation, violent out bursts, made me hate every one that I loved and love everyone that I did not even know -nor was I really phyisically attracted or intillectually attracted to them. I presented a very sexy and I am available and looking demeanor and anyone who responded, got what they were looking for. I had no control and did not see anything wrong with what I was doing until well after I was off the drug. I stiil try to justify everything I did (in my mind) but know I really did do all of those horrible things and hurt my wonderful and loving husband so terribly much. It made me become very promiscuous, I went from extreemly shy to very bold, constantly demanding attention, especially sexual attention. It ruined my marriage and has left me devistated, even though I am off of it and no longer have any remaining ill effects. I am back to my old prudish and shy self, but I have a lot of humiliating sexual baggage that even I can't bear to admit. Stay away from this | F | 52 | 2 years | 9/24/2008 | 3 | epilepsy | severe anger,depression,hard to get any sort of joy, | i take 1500mg a day with neurontin 900mg a day but i want to get off it because it has made me a hater when i used to like people. | F | 29 | 1 months | 8/30/2008 | 5 | Brain biopsy induced seizures | First couple weeks were rough...very angry and tired. The "rage" has passed. Still a little sleepy during the day from time to time. My nightly dose helps me sleep great!! After trying 3 other seizure meds ...Keppra is the only one that I don't have any bad reactions to. | Keppra is highly expensive but very much worth every dollar. It has helped me so much by controlling the seizures. Immediately after I take it I feel better and well protected. I love it and would recommend it to anyone. | F | 34 | 8 months | 8/8/2008 | 5 | surgery-induced partial simple seiz | Reduced appetite - I can't eat enough at meals and am starving a few hours later. Some slur in speech, though I can't be sure it's due to the drug. | F | 26 | 5 months | 7/29/2008 | 5 | Epilepsy | memory loss, fatigue, sun sensitivity (easily sunburned), heat intolerance, | I am on 1000mg twice a day of Keppra and 100 mg twice a day of Lamictal. I had been on a really high dosage of Lamictal, but it wasn't helping, so we added the Keppra, which has completely stopped my seizures. (Complex partial and simple partial TLE, first seizure 1.5 years ago). I would like to be completely off the Lamictal, but my doctor doesn't want to stop it completely, sigh...Some of these side effects MAY be from Lamictal, but I've tried to narrow them down. | F | 30 | 1 years | 7/21/2008 | 2 | Epilepsy | VERY short fuse, lots of rage over little things and towards loved ones. | After a couple months became more and more filled with rage and anger. Got to the point where I didn't care about anything or hurting anyone. Another couple months and I would have been divorced. | M | 37 | 8 months | 7/21/2008 | 2 | seizures | Insomnia. Fatigue. Weakness. Cannot recall words -- will be stopped in mid-sentence not able to come up with the word I want/need. Generally feel unwell. | Have not had any further seizures -- so it does work BUT there are side-effects. | M | 85 | 1 years | 7/17/2008 | 3 | Complex partial seizures | I am experiencing lower and upper back, neck and hip pain. It is especially difficult to straighten up and bend down in the morning. It started when I began taking Keppra, so that seems to be the problem. | I am much clearer than I have been in a long time. I must have been having small CPS's for a long time before I had one that required a trip in an ambulance to the emergency room when I was found confused, wandering around my neighborhood with one shoe on. | F | 56 | 1 months | 7/4/2008 | 5 | Epilepsy - complex partial seizures | The only side effects I expereinced were in the first two weeks I started to take the drug. I felt very irritated, angry, and like I was constantly looking for an argument. This was very ususual for me and I disliked the side effects so much that I asked to stop taking Keppra. But the doctor asked me to hang in there for another two weeks and changed my dosage so now I take the bigger dose at night (250mg AM/1000mg PM.) The side effects stopped completely after that and I haven't had any since. | My seizures are finally under control, at last in my 30s. I take this in combination with Lamictal, and as long as I take them both on time I have no seizures, even when I suffer from extreme stress, sleep deprivation, or other former triggers. Two thumbs up from me, it works! | F | 33 | 2 years | 6/9/2008 | 1 | temporal lobe epilepsy | Lower lip became strangly numb, then tingled, certain fingers went also went numb and then tingled constantly. And no, I did not chew the pill and smear it on my lips and fingers. Frightening dreams, disturbed sleep. Had odd seizures, almost paralyzed and aware. The numbness and tingling went on for at least two months after stopping the drug. | I took this in conjunction with Dilantin, which I had already been taking for several years before. Doctor vomited out drug rep/seminar teachings of no syptoms reported for KEPRA was very very aggressive about this drug and my questions, I feel there are incentives for physicians when I see them pimp a drug and lie about side effects. Not the first time, oh well. | F | 45 | 1 months | 4/11/2008 | 4 | epilepsy | anxiety sometimes, irritable, easily fustrated, drowsy, no prob eating, | although side effects were not great, i never had a seizure on keppra until i took it wrong. being taken off cause $ issues (very expensive) going back to dilantin. will reccomend this overall. very new med, but i love it. hated the dilantin while i was on it. the side effects r terrible;however, i can afford it. | F | 29 | 1 years | 3/19/2008 | 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 | 2 | Grand Mal seizures | constant headache; anxious; emotionally distresssed; difficult to live with (2000 mg perday) | Also taking Dilantin which on its own was not controlling seizures and found to be affected by other medication. Had hoped Keppra would have less side effects | M | 59 | 8 weeks | 2/5/2008 | 2 | Epilepsy combo grandmal/auras | I felt like I was in a cloud: extremely drowsy, tired and weak. I was fighting off a feeling of depression and tendency towards anxiety. | Some of these side effects could have been worse because of the other meds I was taking: depakote, phenobarb and diamox | F | 39 | 31 days | 1/10/2008 | 4 | Epilepsy | Insomnia | I was newly diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy (complex partial seizures with secondary generalization) this year. My neurologist prescribed Keppra, and I took 500mg in the morning and 500 mg in the evening (noting that the dose was increased in 250mg increments per week, over four weeks). I did not have any seizures while on Keppra, which is a good thing, but I could not fall asleep no matter how exhausted I was. It was utterly miserable; I was getting one or two hours of sleep at the most each night and could barely function during the day. My neurologist thought that the insomnia would be a short term side effect while my body adjusted to the medication, and prescribed sleeping pills. The pills did help, but after six months there was no change in my insomnia and I was not willing to make sleeping pills a permanent part of my life. We gradually switched from Keppra to a different medicine, and the insomnia went away. | F | 31 | 7 months | 12/30/2007 | 3 | Epilepsy (not grand-mal seizures) | Lack of Appetite, some memory problems, learning problems and mood changes. Some sleep deprevation. | I have taken it for 4 years. It works out ok, This year its not helping at all. Might because body has gotten ust to it. Now im starting adjucntive therapy tommarrow with lamictal. | M | 20 | 4 years | 12/12/2007 | 2 | seizures - brain injury (sinus dvt) | tiredness - got better after a few months. depression, suicidal thoughts, irritable, social withdrawal. dull headaches but could be allergy related | M | 35 | 180 days | 11/9/2007 | 5 | partial seizures | Tired during the day and I had a hard time sleeping at night for the first week or two after each increase, the side effects subsided drastically after the first few days. | Seizures run in my family and we have been trough most of the meds prescribed for them starting in the 50s. this is the only seizure med I have found that you can mix with virtually anything and is even safe enough for my Diabetic aunt, who was first prescribed it. I then got a prescription from my neurologist and tried it. I have never felt better and for the first time in over ten years I have been able to think clearly, remember things not only daily but from my child hood and have had no Migraines or seizures. This has also been the case with my Aunt and Grandmother who has been seizure free for the first time in over 45 years. | F | 24 | 2 months | 10/23/2007 |