3000mg daily of Keppra is usually the maximum dosage. I take 1500mg in the morning and 1500mg at bedtime. I don't understand why your son's neurologist doesn't divide his dosage into a morning dosage and a night-time dosage. I'm no doctor, but with him taking his pills just at bedtime (eventhough they are XR), Keppra is probably out of his system by mid afternoon. Also, so that your son wouldn't have to take so many pills, Keppra does have a 750mg tablet. I take two 750mg tablets of Keppra in the morning and two at night (3000mg daily). You might want to run this by your son's neuro.
Tristin
--- On Wed, 6/3/09, scandaloux <scandaloux@yahoo.
From: scandaloux <scandaloux@yahoo.
Subject: [epilepsy] increasing keppra pills
To: epilepsy@yahoogroup
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 6:41 PM
My 16 year old son has just started having seizures within the last year. His doctor started him on keppra in January. He started taking three 500 mg pills of keppra xr at bedtime. Two months after that, he had another seizure, so his doctor said to take four pills at bedtime. Two months after that, he had another seizure, so now he takes five pills and if he has another seizure, he will take six. I wanted to know if anyone else takes just keppra without any additional medication and how long does it take to see if it works? His seizures do seem to be a little bit milder, but they're still pretty bad. I'm beginning to think that he needs to try something else.
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