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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Seizure (over)medication

Here is an overview of dad's seizure medications and how they are changing:

Was taking:
  1. 2,000 mg of depakote
  2. 2,000 mg of keppra
  3. namenda (a memory enhancing drug used primarily for Alzheimer's patients)

The current plan:

  1. drop namenda completely, cold turkey
  2. decrease depakote dosage by 500 mg each weak until completely weaned off
  3. continue keppra as is

This change in medication began 8 days ago. In the past day or so, he's started exhibiting some strange, possibly seizure-like behaviors. Mom's trying to get docs on the phone to find a possible explanation and remedy. I'm going to see if my new friends in the Brain Trust oligo online support group might have some insightful info for us.

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