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Suggest Treatment For Partial Seizures Despite Taking Keppra
My my daughter is 28 yrs and she start getting light partial seizures when she was 23 and she lost consciousness a couples of times and Doctor put on seizure medicine and she got better for some time maybe getting seizures twice per month , however now she does not loose consciousness and getting twice per day when she wake up or later in the day but they last 3 O 4 seconds and she is aware but I m concern that she getting it more often and feels like a song in her head or something... I m not sure if she getting better or worse since she does not pass out anymore and is able to control it... She is taking Keppra maximum dose!!
Fri, 27 Jul 2018
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Evaluation like epilepsy protocol MRI for temporal lobe involvement and EEG is advisable. Drugs like Lacosamide or Carbamazepine/Oxcarbazepine should be added to Levetiracetam.
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Dr N Kumar
Neurologist
Evaluation like epilepsy protocol MRI for temporal lobe involvement and EEG is advisable. Drugs like Lacosamide or Carbamazepine/Oxcarbazepine should be added to Levetiracetam.
Regards
Dr N Kumar
Neurologist
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