Y did U have to retake it? My license has only been suspended for less than a year and I hope to reapply next year
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From: Steve <stephenpales@yahoo.com>
To: epilepsy@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 6:28 PM
Subject: [epilepsy] Re: Surgery, reducing meds.
Hi Susan,
These are the meds I'm currently on:
I've been on Trileptal about 7 years, I was on Tegreol before that but couldn't increase dosage because any increase would make me toxic. Both are very similar in ingredients. I began the Tegretol back in 1988.
I've been on Keppra now since just after it came on the market guessing 8 years ago.
As far as driving. I didn't drive for 20 years. Got the ok to drive, took the drivers permit test 2 weeks later, took my license test 2 weeks after that then bought my new Toyota Matrix '09 3 weeks later. I bought it in May of 2008.
Steve
--- In epilepsy@yahoogroups.com, Susan Wain <susan.wain@...> wrote:
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> How long have you been on those meds? Have your doctors tried to reduce your meds? Also....did U have to re take your driving test?
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> From: Steve <stephenpales@...>
> To: epilepsy@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 7:44 PM
> Subject: [epilepsy] Re: Surgery, reducing meds.
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> Hi Susan,
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> I'm on Trileptal 750mg x 2 and Keppra 1500mg x 2 each day.
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> Steve
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> --- In epilepsy@yahoogroups.com, Susan Wain <susan.wain@> wrote:
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> > I've been on Trileptol for a year and the only side effect is extreme fatigue but....after being on Depakote I'll live with that!!!!!!!! Do U have to reduce your meds when you are seizure free as I want to feel good and I dont' want to have a seizure if my meds are reduced. I'm on 950 of Trilepol per day.
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> > ________________________________
> > From: Kelly Porter <race_12_1@>
> > To: epilepsy@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 5:02 PM
> > Subject: Re: [epilepsy] Surgery, reducing meds.
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> > Steve,
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> > Obviously I can only tell you what I did. When I reached 3 years post
> > op I talked to my epileptologist about reducing my meds. She took me
> > off Topomax first. First she told me "if something is going to happen,
> > we wil know pretty quickly". What she told me that really helped me was
> > "we know what combination works, so as we reduce them if you were to
> > have a seizure, we know exactly what and how much to put you on". This
> > made me feel better, because it was a safety net. I didn't want to have
> > a seizure, but I had to know if I could handle being on less meds.
> >
> > Besides the decision to have surgery, reducing my meds is the best
> > medical decision I have made. When I started the reduction I was on 3
> > meds, and a lot of them. I am completely off Topomax, I have switched
> > to generic Trileptal and on less of it. I have not had a seizure. The
> > reduction is side effects has been wonderful!!! I honeslty think that
> > reducing my meds really helped me go back to being more of the me from
> > before because my head is so much clearer and I am so much less temper
> > mental.
> >
> > The nice thing is, if I were to have a seizure, we know what combination
> > to put me on. There would be no trial and error period this time of
> > this drug that drug, this much that much.
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> > I wish you luck in your decision, I know for me there was a lot of fear
> > in making the decision because a seizure would mean no driving again.
> > But, jumping off that proverbial cliff has turned out wonderful for me.
> >
> > Kelly
> >
> > On 11/25/2011 8:58 AM, Steve wrote:
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> > > Hi everybody,
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> > > I would like to hear your experiences in reducing meds after surgery.
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