I'll be starting Vimpat (lacosimide) soon. If you know anyone taking it, what can you tell me? (I have epilepsy & I take Lamictal too.)

Hey Lor!!!

I personally know nothing about Vimpat...

Here's a link:
http://www.Vimpat.com

They even have a discount card on there to help with the next 12 copays...

I don't have epilepsy but and going to look into it for RSD....

Thank you for bringing this "new" medicine to my attention!!!


Abbie

I have been taking Vimpat as a test medication for over three yrs. I also was taking Keppra, Topamax, and Dilantin. I was seizure free after about 10 months on the test Med. I am now off of Topamax, and have reduced my Keppra from 3000mg a day to 750mg a day. It works, and the biggest side affect for me was as a passenger in a car, I could not keep my eyes open for more than 10 minutes. I have now gotten used to the drug and no longer have that side effect. Even when I was able to drive again, I did still have the side affect while a passenger, but never when I was at the wheel. Good luck with this drug, it has been incredible for me.

Vimpat is brand new to broad market, though tested for years as a previous poster noted. UCB has keppra going generic, so to continue profits, is marketing keppra xr and vimpat. Vimpat is a newer AED with sodium channel effect with a proposed novel mechanism. As adunctive, and possibly later on, monotherapy it looks promising. It has not been used enough to have people publishing the "common side effect" profile like other meds already have. As a newer and "precise" seizure med hopefully it's side effect profile will be low.

I started Vimpat three weeks ago, was doing beautifully on it. Then My boyfriend and I were sitting in our living room last night and suddenly I past out. I felt numbness down the right arm and the right side of my face before passing out. My doctor earlier today decided that it was some type of a seizure. I also have had more severe headaches than usual. (I am a migraine suffering patient) as many of us are, right? I hope this helps any of those who are thinking of starting to take this drug, and if any of those who think we are writing to soon about it since it's new its only because wev'e already had the experience and the doctors opinion. I'm now being taken off it as we chat.

What dosage are you on and if off Vimpat why? I am on 400mg daily. Thx for feedback

Please be very careful on this medicine my mother was taking Vimpat 200 mg along with triasenol (my spelling is prob. wrong)600mg.and lyrica 200mg...
she took for only 2 months,,she committed suicide ......she was never suicidal before,had epilepsy for 28 years,went to atleas 27 nuerologists, on every medication for seizures they had come up with...she had brain surgery in 1989(,sorry I don't remember what it was called) but they removed part of her brain behind her ear.....she was happier in the last 5 years then she had been since her seizures started,but she started having mood swings and paranoia.... then she was gone...I am now pursuing a suit so that they take this off market,b/cause no one elses family has to ever go thru this again.....this not about money...just a life that will be saved...I am not some one who wouldpost anything like this to strangers,but I truly believe she would be here now with her family if she had never been on this drug......

I watched my mother suffer with epilepsy for most of my life,she went through hell,but she never stopped trying to find a medicine that would stop her seizures.....She fought hard and she led as normal a life as she could..I understand the need to find a med.. that will help but I have also seen that these meds. are so new that there is just not enough research done on them....
I don't want to preach but please, please becareful with this med,

thank you

I take Keppra so lets uas know how you are doing.