#keppra

[christine-sullivan]

My neurologist upped my medication again. I'm tired.

[twinnflowrr]

Zoey hasn’t had a seizure in almost 3 months!🥹

We’re taking her to the vet soon for her allergy shot and a follow-up.

I’ll never forget her last seizure, it was so scary. Before medication, she had seizures for about 4 years — usually around once a month, lasting 1–2 minutes. At the time, the vets said we didn’t need to start medication unless they changed, since once they begin it, it’s typically lifelong.

Since starting Keppra, her quality of life has completely changed. She has so much more energy and just seems genuinely happier. She hasn’t been car sick either, which is such a relief.

I’m honestly just so grateful she’s doing this much better 🩷✨🌷

[thelochnesscreature]

Man I'm so pissed off and can't even verbalize it

[coreywithnoname]

Cool people google their ailments and medication.

What do you mean it was Keppra? What do YOU MEAN?

[raposar]

First 30 hours of Keppra withdrawal

-brain zaps

-i cannot form a single thought, I have to concentrate really badly

-i:ll blink in my room and then I'm in the kitchen

-Had a horrible crying fit

-my vision is blurring on its on

-Eye spasms/movements

-i feel a weird sense of impending doom

-im scared but I'm not scared of something specifically, I just feel afraid

-It feels like my vision is delayed

[ukuleles-not-nukuleles]

I thought that getting a diagnosis would help, but god damn the words Epilepsy and Seizure are heavy. Anyone have any advice for this? I remember taking my UC diagnosis pretty hard, but this feels different. Bigger, somehow. Worse, despite the UC having put me on my literal death bed.

I started Keprra (generic) this morning. I’m terrified of the side effects, but more scared to keep having seizures. It’s insane to think about all of the shit that was happening before I knew. I drove having a seizure. I was working having seizures. I was sewing while having seizures. I was drinking while having seizures. I was having seizures.

This is just so heavy. How do you hold it?

[glittercontusion]

Metamour is losing their shit, I am confident now saying they are abusing our partner, they're doing shit that's gonna get us kicked out, sending repeat angry emails to the leasing office and screaming and throwing shit at the wall for several minutes at a time in order to break it and scare partner

He doesn't want to give up on them because so much of this is the fucking keppra they're on and its depression/anger/aggression side effects; the problem is they're not willing to admit that and try another med but prefer instead to blame everyone else

But I'm like, scared to come home/be at home now

They're gonna get us kicked out AGAIN btw, like they did last time. Because yes landlords should die but in the meantime you don't call and scream at the leasing office lady that she's a bitch cunt whore because your car got towed because YOU didn't put your parking sticker on

They value their autonomy above all else and yet everything is always everyone else's fault

It was everyone else's fault when they lost their shit at their job and got fired

It was somebody else's fault their car got towed and they lost their shit on the phone and got us kicked out of the last apartment

It's partner's fault they refuse to communicate

It's my fault they don't do any chores, somehow

Their last bout of covid gave them epilepsy and that sucks real bad but my sibling in christ YOU didn't get your vaccine

They had a fight a few months back where I will grant partner was a huge asshole. Basically they both triggered each other's PTSD in big bad ways. But it has been MONTHS now of them treating partner like shit. And now it is escalating and I don't feel safe!!! Lmao

We have got to figure out a way to get them on a different medication. I got the keppra aggression real bad when I was on too much of it and I thought it was a rare side effect but 1) I locked myself in my room so I wouldn't be a nightmare to other people AND I made my psych take me off that dose instead of *checks notes* blaming everybody else 2) I've spoken to other people and apparently it's really fucking common and turns people into monsters (kind of like this!!!)

[gayforestposts]

New meds they put me on got me feeling like I got dosed with dizzy pills