Changing medications

This forum is pretty much dried up & this is why you haven't received a response. I have zero knowledge about medications used to treat epilepsy, so I am pretty useless in this area. Are your seizures under good control with your current medication, any negative side effects & how long have you been on the medication.

Here is a couple of questions to pose to your dr.

If you do not have good control of the seizures will the combination of medications help?

What about any potential side effects other than the typical ones adjusting to new medications?

Will the combination of medications improve your quality of life?

Just an idea or two.

This is my first time here, Hello. I want to affirm my familiarity with experiences that I read about in another writer's post, albeit a few years old. The writer told of how he/she had experienced seizures when an employer's health plan filled an Rx with generic phenytoin rather than the brand name Dilantin used prior to that, and it didn't work. Following a brain tumor resection in 1971 I started into severe grand mal nocturnal seizures. Epileptic since age 11 I had never known anything like this was. My neurosurgeon put me on Dilantin & Mysoline (Primidone) and was most firm that I should never use any other type of Dilantin. It was Parke-Davis back then. Control of my seizures has been good except when I've been slipped a generic phenytoin, even if it's supposed to be a time released drug. In a Brain Tumor Survivor support group I used to attend there were many who could not tolerate side effects of Dilantin, but I cannot get by without it.