I take Keppra 1000mg twice aday . I have had really good luck with it. Anybody else??

in catching your post...I've been on Keppra for about 3+ years now...With little bad in the way of s/e's UNLESS I forget my AM pill or fall asleep before my PM ones...Making up for missed doses, or worse the missed doses themselves is one strange adventure?

I couldn't tolerate the Neurontin AT ALL...sleeping 16-18 hours each day, only in 3-4 hour intervals, not dreaming, and then hallucinations...well. What good is being half dead, to with lowered pain? Life for 6-8 hours each day only? NOT! I was switched to Tramadol, didn't do anything for the pain, but I did get my brain back? I then traded off to Keppra and I have my brain and SOME, not lots of pain control...tramadol helps there when really needed. I try not to, so the pain killers can really work when really truly needed. Sigh.
Neurotin, I couldn't finish any sentence started - couldn't remember.
Keppra I can, and my mind at times goes too fast for my mouth to keep up?
Some folks complain of a 'rage'? If I've had RAGE, it was upon the addition of other meds for other things.

Just, don't forget a dose....I find myself getting foggy and off kilter for want of better words when I do. Once I get that dose into me..within 45 minutes I am much bette. I hope this helps! - j

Just curious - I think I read about this drug somewhere. I've tried over 40 drugs (too many to list) at highest doses. No help for pain of FM, RSD and TMJ as well as burning lips mouth and aching teeth from a medication(neuropathic mouth pain).
Desperate for any ideas.
Sydney

Keppra is like Neurontin...not an opoid Sydney.

I would say Keppra is nothing like Neurontin . No weight gain , no brain fog . Nothing

Raz, I meant it was in the same family. Geez if the docs gave me Keppra instead of Neurontin I wouldn't weigh as much as I do.

I take 500mg twice a day on the brand Keppra and Tegretol xr 400mg twice a day. I hadn't has a seizure in 11 years. I've heard bad things about the gentric keppra from what I have read I think I'm just going stick wtih the brand. Even though our health insurance is going up. I just hope the insurance don't force me to go generic.

Hi, razzle51:

I do not know if you saw the very important information Sue provided about Keppra in the epilepsy thread. Maybe you could take a look at it.

Hi, razzle51:

I also take Keppra (two 500 mg tablets twice daily), but I take it for epilepsy. It does not really do anything for my severe chronic full body RSD pain, which is better controlled by Duragesic, MSIR, and Tambocor.