CLONAZEPAM vs LEVETIRACETAM

Hi everyone, Hope you’re doing okay, or better. This week it’s been 4 years since my first manic episode. Since then, I haven’t relapsed. I’ll try to keep this short, but it will probably be a bit longer since I want to write everything that I would have wanted to read 4 years ago. **Here we go:** M

I’m a 33 year old female and have been diagnosed for 5 years now. I spent countless days, even years, trying to figure out what was wrong with me. I would be on google nearly every day asking questions and just thought I had bad anxiety along with my PTSD and ADHD. My head has been off since I was a

“I’m bipolar.” “I’m bipolar type 1” “I have bipolar disorder.” “I have bipolar disorder type 1.” “I have bipolar illness.” All those statements were attempts to describe myself after my diagnosis, Bipolar illness, at the ripe age of 25. The following years were defined by this list (this is not an

I just wanted somewhere to celebrate how good I'm FINALLY doing. I've been in and out of the hospital for three years now for reckless behaviour and all of the mania, and I knew that you guys would appreciate this. After 6 months of not being employed because my doctor said I just couldn't work, I'v

I hope you can understand me, since English is not my first language. So a few days ago I restarted my medication after like years of The Misery™, you know folks, being in a shitty state all day, drinking heavily and doing clonazepam to get away from the pain, losing all interest in things I used to

For context, I’m bipolar one, and had a gnarly manic and psychotic episode when I was 19 which got me hospitalized for two weeks. That’s when I got my diagnosis, and I’m now 23. I’ve now been through boatloads of therapy, have a very comfy and stable home situation, a therapist and psychiatrist I tr

I have tried Quetiapine, Olanzapine, Fluoxetine… I’m fucking done with the side effects, I gained so much weight was hungry all the time and no desire on anything like numb/zombie all the time. I’m now on 350 Venlafaxine and just quit Olanzapine and was prescribed Clonazepam 2mg and Ambien 10mg, whi

Hi all, I’m a patient at one of the top migraine centers in the country (Diamond Headache Clinic in Chicago). They do a lot of off-label/ non-conventional treatments, so I feel like I have a pretty good list of known treatments. Feel free to add to it in the comments. Hope this helps someone!! THIS

I finally broke down and got these TimerCap caps from Amazon. I am really good about taking my meds usually, but I have been really sick this week and actually double dosed on accident. I can't stand those pill organizers, so I'm going to give these a shot. I attached photos so you can see that the

I hope the streak continues. I was diagnosed 3 years ago with Left TLE. I was having 2 grand Mal a month at the beginning and while they tweaked my meds it started varying. I’m on 2 meds (Levetiracetam, Oxcarbazepine) now and for the last year nothing has happened. Just this week for the first time

People seem to really dislike levetiracetam here. For me it’s been great. No side effects at all, if you don’t count that it totally took away my motion sickness, which I had even before epilepsy. Fingers crossed for another six months and I’ll get my drivers license back!

While other drugs clear existing plaques, levetiracetam (keppra) prevents production of toxic amyloid beta peptides https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/02/common-anti-seizure-drug-prevents-alzheimers-plaques-from-forming I take Keppra. It keeps the seizures at bay, but it also makes me drowsy

I am angry, I can’t remember anything literally 2 seconds later, I can’t talk properly, I keep stuttering, I have ZERO thoughts ZERO. empty brain. it’s managing my seizures, but I don’t like how im feeling on it at all. Did you guys switch from it one that managed your seizures and wasn’t as enragi

(18F) I’m just wondering if anyone has any experiences similar to what I’m going through. I have complex partial seizures. The cause of these seizures is heterotopia in my brain. I have been taking keppra/levetiracetam for around 6 months now. It isn’t perfect but has made massive improvements. I’m

I take 1000 mg of Keppra/Levetiracetam and 400 Lamictal/Lamotrigine. And I am so fucking tired all the time. There isn't a moment of my day that I couldn't lay down and just, fall asleep. My memory is bad enough that I'll forget what I was gonna say in the middle of saying it, or forget what someone