Anyone on Keppra?

 Hello everyone, I have a quick question about Keppra.  I have been taking Keppra since this past August at 750mg twice a day.  I've lost some weight in the past 2 or 3 months and now I'm beginning to feel sick every morning.  Now my question comes from when I experienced the same thing taking Lamictal though.  I was taking Lamictal last school year and had lost a bit of weight and was basically sick for 2 or 3 months off and on not realizing that I was ODing on the Lamictal.  I would get really dizzy and throw-up, but just water.  I wouldn't be able to concentrate.  I was just wondering if anyone had experienced these types of symptoms when on Keppra and loosing weight.  I'm going to try to gain a little bit of weight but I just wanted to know if what i'm going through with keppra is the same thing as Lamictal.  Has anyone essentially began to OD on Keppra because of weight loss?  Thanks!~Jessica

Hi there...I am on both sides of the fence i take both meds topomax and keppra...started on tegretol and went to topomax---started to lose weight and appetite. Then just started to take Keppra last week and have vomited twice out of the blue....have not noticed increase in appetite still not much of appetite at all I take 1000 mg keppra 200 mg topomax 200 mg tegretol -good luck hope you are feeling better!

probably to soon to tell or one is offsetting the other ---take care! I am trying to get my eating habits better and hope my appetite does increase.

You guys are so funny! I would like a hot turkey sandwich too!
I was on keppra about 2 years ago and I didn't lose any weight. But as soon as I got on Topomax, I dropped 15 pounds in 4 months. But I do remember that I had a little nausea with the keppra, but it didn't stop me from eating, I just ate a lot of crackers. It reminded me of when I had morning sickness when I was pregnant!

I think the topomax for sure decreased my appetite now I am on both ??? I dont have much of appetite...when I do I get full really fast. I have been starting to try and exercise to relieve some stress....hope to get back into shape! Too thin and all my muscles have shrunk lol! I think though you are right the keppra might make you vomit once in a while ....take care....I love the stories too...right now snow storm in Ontario Canada,,,really screwing my brain up lol! Barometric low moving in...lots of seizures for me!!! take care all

hey shorty28420,

I have been on keppra for almost a year. in the begining my neuro put me on 8 500mg tablets a day. I had been so sick for so long, 20 partial seziures a day and 2-3 grand mal a week. So I tried really hard to make the keppra work. especially when all of the seziures stopped. Then I became completely psychotic. I was no loger me. I had these crazy suicidal thoughts. When I was not uncontrolably angry for no reason, I was totaly numb inside. I felt nothing. I looked my husband in the eye one day and said "i don't understand how I could hate someone as much as i hate you." I don't hate him, he is so good to me. I did not want to be touched. I lost all interest in sex.

Deep inside i knew these things were NOT me. so i went to my really great neuro. (even though i was ebaressed) she lowered my dose. things got better right away, no seziures, less side effects. But I still had a few. Low sex drive, moring sickness like nausea, body achs. so she lowered it again. i feel really good now. the scary thing is that i went from taking 4000 mg a day to taking 1000 mg a day. they canont watch your dosage by drawing blood like alot of the other drugs. they have to just estimate "guess"  how much keppra you need based on your weight. i am a big girl so thats why she gave me so much.

So this is what I think.

 everyone absobs this med differently and that is why it cannot be monitered.and why so many people have such bad side effects from it. When you have a seziure the dr adjusts your dose. it should be the same with side effects. I have talked to alot of people who say lowered sex drive is a side effect of keppra.  talk to your dr. about slowly lowering your dosage. it can make all the difference. sometimes i take an extra pill, when im fealing a little off or during peak sezure days (PMS=grand mal for me) Pay attention to your body. only you know when something is not normal for you.

jelymon

Keppra seems to have a remarkable variety of effects on different people. Its impact on me has been... nothing! No side-effects, apart from a few days of drowsiness when I first started taking it. And absolutely no improvement on my seizures either. I keep on taking it just to shut my neuro up, but I might as well be gulping down suger pills. Although suger pills might cause some much-needed weight gain.

Andrew

My son takes Keppra - 2000 mg a day and 500 mg of Lamictal as wellas 650 mg of Zonegran. He has lost weight from the Keppra but after about 3 yrs has gained it back from bad habits. The only other side effect he has had from Keppra is that is makes him irritable and he often doesn't remember things I tell him.

Hello everyone!
I have been on carbatrol for the past year, but have gained over 15 lbs, which is out of the norm. Other than that I haven't had any side effects from the drug. I felt like I just kept gaining and wasn't able to lose any of the weight.
My dr. just switched me to keppra, which she said was weight neutral. I have felt a slight loss of appetite but I am hoping it will work itself out.
I really just don't know which medication will ever be ok without any side effects.