My brother is taking epilex chrono 800 for 3 yrs. He's totally okay now. So will he continue the same dose for 1 year more? He's 17 years old.
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Dear friend, As per standard practice, depending on the etiology we taper off antiepileptic drug when candidate is completely seizure free for 3 years. I should share you the statistics: almost 70 percent of patients (varies among different literature) have no further seizure recurrence after successful completion of the anti epileptic course. The risk factors of recurrence are: age of onset of seizure, initiation of anti epileptic drug (delay of drug initiation more than 6 months is amenable to more chance of recurrence), number of anti epileptic drugs (recurrence when multiple drugs were needed to control ), type of seizure etc. So, the bottom line is attend a Neurologist who will guide you finally after taking all above under considerations. Besides all these as of now he need to be compliant with the medication, follow lifestyle measures, avoid precipitating factors (for seizures). Wish him all the best!
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