Re: [epilepsy] At the end of my rope!!!!!!! Keppra and insomnia...please help!!

 

You noticed that pasty-metallic taste too? I thought I was imagining things.
My wife says "you get this metallic smell after seizures".

I wonder what's up with that.

FWIW wishing for death is a known side-effect of Keppra. (Technically known
as "suicidal ideation".)

Jason

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Liz Welker <lizard110366@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm only on 500 mg of Keppra a day, and my insomnia is this bad!!!!!! I
> seriously don't know what to do anymore. On a good night, I might get 3-4
> hours. Sometimes, I can go back to sleep for a couple of hours after getting
> my son off to school, but fairly often, I don't have that option. I would
> have given up on it a long time ago except that it's the ONLY med to ever
> control my simple partial clusters (which are worse than my GMs, as I will
> get up to 25 SPs in 18 hours before they stop) and leave me wishing for
> death--post-ictal fever, nausea, exhaustion, monster headache,
> pasty/metallic taste in my mouth, no appetite for days. Since the Keppra
> keeps all of that away, I really want to stick with it, but I don't know
> what to do about this horrific insomnia.
>

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