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Reviewer: Taking faithfully, 45-54 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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It works fine for me. I'm taking other drugs for seizures and it is doing the job. No allergic reactions! Lamictal was a nightmare! Gave me a rash
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Reviewer: toytoy, 13-18 Male on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Caregiver)
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Reviewer: Nick, 65-74 Male on Treatment for 1 to less than 2 years (Patient)
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The medication is effective in preventing temporal seizures - Silent Seizures. Side effects are the problem 1)loss of short term memory (I don't remember movie I saw a month ago and don't remember many events that happened over the past 2 years) 2)loss of sense of smell (can't smell food, gas or BBQ smoke or anything) 3)loss my sense of touch -reduced medication level helped (did
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Reviewer: runningbear, 65-74 Male on Treatment for 5 to less than 10 years (Patient)
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Due to a frontal lobe injury, I started having seizures many years later. I could have 20 seizures in a day and that made me so tired and I could have these local petite seizures at any time including driving. I've be on the generic levetiracetam for a few years now at 375 mg a day and have zero seizures. I'll admit once in awhile I get very tired and if I just can sleep for even a minu
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Reviewer: 65-74 Male on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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Took Keppra for about 4 months. I suffered HORRIBLE depression as a side effect and had to be hopitalized. My MD immediately switched to Lamictal. I have had no problems since.
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