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Suggest Management For Epilepsy
i am under epilepsy treatment. For the past 6 years i am taking eptoin 300mg per day but once in a year i get fits. So the doctor has advised me to add frisium (clobazam) 5mg with eptoin 300mg in night. I am 38 year old and working as a editor in a magazine.
Mon, 30 Jun 2014
Hi,
Thank you for posting your query.
I have noted your symptoms and am glad to note that your seizures are under good control.
Seizure occurring once a year is very good.
We need to find out the reason for your breakthrough seizures once a year. Is it that you skip medicines or irregular with that? Also, do you sleep less or take a lot of stress/tension during those times? If your answer is yes to any of the above, then, correcting them would lead to complete freedom from seizures.
Otherwise, addition of friseur (clobazam) is a good step, as clobazam has very good effect on seizure control as an add-on anti epileptic drug.
I hope my answer helps. Please get back if you have any follow up queries or if you require any additional information.
Wishing you good health,
Dr Sudhir Kumar MD (Internal Medicine), DM (Neurology)
Senior Consultant Neurologist
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, India
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Thank you for posting your query.
I have noted your symptoms and am glad to note that your seizures are under good control.
Seizure occurring once a year is very good.
We need to find out the reason for your breakthrough seizures once a year. Is it that you skip medicines or irregular with that? Also, do you sleep less or take a lot of stress/tension during those times? If your answer is yes to any of the above, then, correcting them would lead to complete freedom from seizures.
Otherwise, addition of friseur (clobazam) is a good step, as clobazam has very good effect on seizure control as an add-on anti epileptic drug.
I hope my answer helps. Please get back if you have any follow up queries or if you require any additional information.
Wishing you good health,
Dr Sudhir Kumar MD (Internal Medicine), DM (Neurology)
Senior Consultant Neurologist
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, India
Click on this link to ask me a DIRECT QUERY: http://bit.ly/Dr-Sudhir-kumar
My BLOG: http://bestneurodoctor.blogspot.in
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