Thursday, April 21, 2011

Re: [epilepsy] Pills dosage blood tests

Daniel-

There may be more earlier postings to this question, but I didn't see them.

It all depends what anti-epileptic med you are on. They don't all have
blood tests to check appropriate dosage.

Dani's Dad
Tim Heller

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Daniel <daniel_it@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> Hello all!
>
> I was just curious to know a simple thing: how do you check if you are
> taking too much of your pill?
> In my country (Italy) I periodically take a specific blood test to dose my
> pill, to see if the quantity in my blood is enough, too much or too few. Do
> you have such tests in your countries too?
>
> I ask this dumb question because speaking with a Bulgarian friend, who also
> has epilepsy, she told me that she never took such tests and her doctors
> (she had more than one neurologist) never asked her to take them. So I
> wondered how they could decide how many pills she had to take?
>
> Thanks for your attention and best wishes for a seizure free life.
>
> Daniel
>
>
>

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