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Tab levera (leveteracetum) is safest antiepileptic in pregnancy ,every antiepileptic drug has some degree of teratogenicity ,but leveras is the lowest and teratogenicity of valporate is highest.
Antiepileptics should be taken during pregnancy because epileptic attack during pregnancy is very harmful for the baby.

It totally depends on for how long you are on drugs. Whether you r having epilepsy episodes at present or when you had your last EEG done. Definitely without these and detailed history you should not advised to taper down your drugs but if you r having drugs side effects like weight gain or something else then you can switch over to other drugs.

Yes, you can take tab. Frisium almong with valparin chrono, if your seizure recurrence happened in spite of taking valparin regularly even missing a single dose
also avoid sleep deprivation and stress.

Your brother has epilepsy and he is on the correct treatment and if he still gets fits his drugs need to be increased or changed in consultation with the neurology doctor

Dear lybrate-user,
you can give your mom valparin alkalets 500 mg itself not only today, even hereafter. Probably she may need a little extra dose of valparin alkalets compared to valparin chrono. But that is not immediate. When you go back to cip next 3 months, please inform about change of medication. The psychiatrist there will adjust the dose, if needed.

Post studying the complete medical history , we'll be able to figure out the best possible solution. Let's have a detailed discussion for better advice and medication plan.

You should starts the ayurvedic panchkarma treatment once in 6 months intervals, along with ayurvedic and alopathic medicine, your disease is gradually correct and side effect of allopathic medicine is also nullified, in most of the cases all medicine is stopped after some time, and patient lived with normal life .

Get your liver and thyroid function tests done every 6 months. This is a very safe drug. These tests are for timely detection of any side effects.

The drug you mention is likely to increase liver enzymes. Kindly consult your physician/ psychiatrist to consider stopping and changing the medication if warranted.

Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy is a type of primary generalised epilepsy. It wil get good response with encorate. But there is chance to recur once you stop it. Usually encorate is the drug of choice. We usually switch to another one only if encorate is not tolerated. For more details ,you can consult me.