The Anticonvulsant - Articles
Anticonvulsants and Suicide
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Kirk
... oes out the window. Anticonvulsants May Increase the Risk of Suicide and Suicidal Thought On Jan 31st, 2008 the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) announced that those taking the anticonvulsant medications are twice as likely to have suicidal behavior or thoughts of suicide (0.43%) than those taking placebo (an inert substance; 0.22%). This increas ...
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Ladies & Gentlemen
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Marissa M.
... ain on a future medication.Once again, ladies and gentlemen, we are now at 12.5 mg and are beginning our descent into Lamictal-free Airport.(Photo source:Wired.com) Posted in Anticonvulsants, Medicine/Meds, Personal Tagged: anticonvulsant, Anticonvulsants, GlaxoSmithKline, GSK, Lamictal, Lamictal withdrawal, lamotrigine, medication, medications, me ...
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Lamictal’s withdrawal effects at 12.5 mg
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Marissa M.
... I can’t say for sure if that’s attributable to the medication. If you were on Lamictal or are on Lamictal, what side effects have you experienced? Posted in Adverse Effects, Anticonvulsants, Medicine/Meds Tagged: Anticonvulsants, Lamictal, Lamictal withdrawal, lamotrigine, lamotrigine withdrawal, med withdrawal, medication, medication withdrawal, ...
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Ketogenic Diet - Potential Mechanisms
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Kirk
OK, so I've mentioned that I study the anticonvulsant effects of the ketogenic diet. I thought I'd review some of the more popular theories on "how the diet works". Although the exact mechanism isn't clear, we ...
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Antipsychotics in the drinking w...
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Dr. Kalea Chapman
... these medications it is less clear what the cumulative effects over years might be. And that these drugs are, after all, designed to alter the functioning of the human body. (Anticonvulsant medications have been linked with autism, for instance — of course in much larger doses on lab animals.)Addendum: The last parenthetical statement was a little ...
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Drugs for Shingles
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Well Med
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Here is a list of drugs and medications that are commonly prescribed to treat Shingles: Acyclovir Analgesics Anticonvulsants Antidepressants Antiviral drugs Antiviral eyedrops Corticosteroids Famciclovir Famcyclovir Famvir Local corticosteroids Valacyclovir Valtrex Zovirax ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administr ...
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Medical Quack
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first generic versions of Trileptal (oxcarbazepine), an anticonvulsant drug. Generic oxcarbazepine is FDA-approved for use alone or in combination with other medications in the treatment of partial seizures in adults and children a ...
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Ketogenic Diet Conference
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Kirk
... iet (KD). This is a high fat, low carbohydrate diet used to treat drug-resistant seizures. The KD used to be one of the main treatments for epilepsy until the introduction of the anticonvulsant drugs in the late 1930s. In 1994 NBC Dateline ran a story on Charlie Abrahams, the son of the Hollywood movie producer Jim Abrahams, who became seizure free ...
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