Hi Kevin,
For me, mo meds ever worked to entirely stop my seizures. Like I've said, I'm one of the 25% of people with epilepsy who's seizures couldn't get under control with just meds.
Like you, I was on both Keppra and Tegretol for so many years for seizures anytime of day! They didn't stop my seizures. They can work for people like you who have nocturnal seizures. Meds. affect us all in different ways. I was just wondering, if you are only having nocturnal seizures, what does the Dr. say about a drivers license for day driving only? Many people having only night seizures are allowed to drive during the day with the OK by their Dr. and state they live in. On your license its marked no night driving.
You mentioned psychogenic seizures, below is a good site to learn a little about them.
http://www.epilepsy
Take care, keep a smile on your face!
Steve
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> What kind and how long to figure out exactly what medicines are the right ones for you? It took about 40 years for them to figure mine out. They were back and forth on the issue of whether mine were epileptic or psychological. The NYC Hospitals 17 of them total were of no help. Things started getting better in 1996 when Emory University Hospital in Atlanta GA reasoned that if my seizures are always at night, then they can't find out anything in the day. So they pushed aside all the previous medical records and had me stay overnight and realized what was going on. Right Temporal lobe as they said, then they gave me Keppra and Tegretol and improvement came. Then in University of Nebraska Med Ctr, with EEG video monitor, EKG, MRI and Cat Scan, they figured it started in the right temporal lobe but spread only as far as the frontal lobe. So they changed from Tegretol to Trileptal. So Keppra and Trileptal have been much better at controlling them, so now its only about once every 2 months if I'm careful about the way I eat. Constipation always prompts one so I'm very nervous and careful about what I eat. Some Drs also claim Psychological fears also have triggered them but mostly they are epileptic and only partially psychological. Now things are okay. I don't like that it took soooooo long to get an answer but at least they know and have given me the right meds now.
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