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Asked for male, 50 years old from Patna
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General Physician•Delhi
I am sorry to hear about your concern but will be happy to assist you.
Jme is usually well controlled with medication. Most patients with jme do not outgrow their seizures and will need to take medication for the rest of their lives. Individuals are encouraged to get enough sleep and avoid alcohol to reduce the likelihood of seizures.
Let's connect over a call so that we can discuss your concern in details and make a suitable treatment plan for you.
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Its a myth that epilepsy medicines have to be taken life long as a sweeping statement. Let me explain to you in simple terms Epilepsy has many kind of different types of conditions, the classification of epilepsy is very wide.there are many different type of epilepsies and are classified on the basis of their clinical presentation and EEG findings. Once appropriate medicine i started in correct doses majority of the epilepsies can be fully controlled some may require life long medicin...more
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Neurologist•Panchkula
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epilepsy is a very broad diagnosis and you seem to be taking medicines for the last 33 years. For treatment of Epilepsy the type of Seizure and epilepsy you are having needs to be clarifies , how much doses are you taking (its according to your weight) and what is the control are all important markers without these details it is not correct to advise you about the epilepsy. I also would be interested in knowing exactly what do you desire as what help you want has not been mentioned. ...more
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Neurologist•Panchkula
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1. The first thing is to shift to the lowest dose possible of Carbamazepine, if you have not had seizure for 2-3 years try to taper it off. Get the level tested to confirm lowest pharmacologic level essential. Take Folic Acid supplement 4 mg /day.
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My brother got a lack of oxygen during birth, which led to his mental disability, he is 12 years old now. He suffers from epileptic seizures too. He takes tegrital (carbamazepine) and phenotal 60 (phenobarbitone ). Phenotal is no longer available in our country and with taking other brands of the drug, his seizure attacks wasn't controlled, the serum level of phenobarbitone was 34.96 umol/l which is below the therapeutic range, so his doctor decided to switch his medication to epanutin (phenytoin sodium) so we stopped phenobarbitone gradually within 5 days and started to give him phenytoin. That was last month. He is tired and upset most of the time and he has sleep disturbances. He had tonsillitis in the last 2 days. Today we were in the car, suddenly his face paled and he closed his eyes and then keep closing and opening them, but he talked to me, I thought that his blood pressure went down because he didn't have breakfast. When we got home he didn't remember that we were in the car, is this a type of absence seizure? Is that related to phenytoin? Is it normal when starting using phenytoin? Thank you.

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No the episode is not an absence seizure that has different features, but it may be related to his medicine intake and may have been drowsy. I suggest you keep amental note of the episode and continue with medication, in case it recurs you must visit your doctor as it may be a seizure (not necessarily absence) and he may have to be reviewed.
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Homeopathy Doctor•Hooghly
Start doing yoga, wake up early go for walk or jogging, you need proper homeopathic treatment for this purpose, that will cure this problem, along with your existing treatment you need proper homeopathic treatment, so you can contact me through Lybrate in private consultation.
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Asked for male, 50 years old from Dhemaji
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General Physician•Delhi
I am sorry to hear about your concern but will be happy to assist you.
Most seizures end on their own and cause minimal concerns. Yet during some seizures, people can injure themselves, develop other medical problems or life-threatening emergencies. The overall risk of dying for a person with epilepsy is 1.6 to 3 times higher than for the general population.
Let's connect over a call so that we can discuss your concern in details and make a suitable treatment plan for you.
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Asked for male, 46 years old from Mumbai
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Please go ahead with covid vaccination, there is no need to stop anti epileptic drugs in fact you should make sure that you do not miss the aed.
Asked for male, 36 years old from Jodhpur
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I am sorry to hear about your concern but will be happy to assist you.
There is no evidence that persons with epilepsy are at higher risk of side effects after vaccination. As with any vaccine, some persons may develop a fever which could lower their seizure threshold for the short term, and rarely could result in a break-through seizure. There is no evidence that this vaccination results in worsening of the epilepsy, or brain injury.
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