Hi Janice,
I just so happen to be an 18 year old girl myself and I was only recently diagnosed with epilepsy so I was in a little bit different situation than your daughter, I was already on a birth control pill when my neurologist decided to put me on lamictal for my seizures. Both he and my gynecologist said they didn't know how effective my birth control would remain being. I'm taking Ortho Tri Cyclin Lo (which worked great for me the year and a half i've been on it). but they said that it is a must that I use condoms, and I haven't gotten pregnant through these two forms of birth control.
Now as a side note, I don't know where your daughter is at with relationships and whatnot but I've been with my boyfriend for 2 years now and I wasn't used to using condoms before I was diagnosed with epilepsy and have found them uncomfortable and sometimes had issues with them breaking. So talking with my gynecologist I am going to get an IUD here in a couple weeks. There's tons of information about them on the web too. The only thing with those is they suggest that you get them when you've got a long term partner that is free of STD's. If not then its a must to use condoms even with this because the risk of infection goes up with multiple partners and an infection would not be good.
Hope some of this information is helpful. I totally understand the frustrations that you two must be dealing with at the moment. I wouldn't be ok with two periods a month either (yikes!)
- Katy
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> Hello,
> My daughter was diagnosed with epililepsy when she was 9. They have been controlled using the medication Carbatrol. Now that she is 18, we are looking for a birth control pill. We have tried several things with a wonderful gynecologist but the carbatrol lessens the effectiveness of all of them. She ends up having a period in the middle of her cycle and again at the normal time. Any ladies out there that have had similar issues that could help us? Thank you.
> Janice
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