That is so very illegal! Ask to be put on teh drug that works for you! If not...change doctors
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From: Steve <stephenpales@yahoo.com>
To: epilepsy@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2011 8:32 AM
Subject: [epilepsy] Re: phenobarbital?
Hey Tim,
Hmmm, you live near D.C. Are you surprised?
--- In epilepsy@yahoogroups.com, "TIMOTHY" <tbb1@...> wrote:
>
> Someone besides me,
>
> After having my first two seizures,a family doctor did the right thing by starting me on Dilanin & phenobarbital.I wasn't aware of any seizures for the next four years,before telling a friend of my epilepsy and being on medicine to prevent seizures.They told me they'd
> been diagnosed w/epilepsy,until another doctor said they had seizures that were myoclonic.Their advice,go a neurologist.
> At first visit,Dr.replaced phenobarbital with something else.I noticed a partial seizure in a few days,so he tried another,this was repeated again and again.Before adding a third medicine,I thought he'd find it someday.He would've done better to remain at the beginning or go back there and never change anything.
> Then in '91 he replaced Dilantin with Tegretol explaining that was related to having used it for over ten years,then I had double vision.He replaced it with something else.This went on through alot of medicines which all had carbamazapene in them.Why not just go back to the phenobarbital & Dilantin at the beginning.I bet every time a doctor writes a prescription,they get a kickback from a pharmaceutical company because of selling their product.That might be why he dropped phenobarbital,who'd give him a kickback?
>
> Timothy Baldwin
>
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