I would suggest you go for a good panchkarma specialist m. D (panchkarma. Or anybody specialising in ayurveda medicine. Ayurveda can help you to a great extent provided Good luck.

In epilepsy, your reports can be normal when it is called idiopathic epilepsy. Lf the seizures are not controlled with eptoin you require increase in dose or change in medicines.
The side effects of eptoin are giddiness, hair growth, sedation, tremors, bone loss due to vit d def, anemia, etc.

If your mother is on regular medications with eptoin 300 mg daily for the last three years and has not had any seizure since 3 years. (i. E. Its 3 years complete after she had her last seizure), stopping medications can be considered.
However it is always advisable to consult your treating physician to gradually taper the dose according to age, serum drug levels and eeg status. If she has a breakthrough seizure she might have to continue the withdrawn dose.

Hi thanks for your query. I am dr akshay from fortis hospital, new delhi.
Anti epileptic drugs are known to interfere with bone metabolism and can lead to osteomalacia etc due to which you can have lethargy, tiredness and bone pains. Please get your dexa scan and serum calcium and vitamin d levels and send it across to me so that I can see and advise accordingly. Do not hesitate to contact me if you need any further assistance.
Thanks & regards
Dr akshay kumar saxena
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You are taking eptoin and epiliv, both are for epilepsy. You are not having any seizure since last 4 years. Its a good sign that your epilepsy is well controlled. Now regarding stopping the medication, epilepsy medicines now can be stopped gradually step wise manner with the guidance of a neurologist. If any fits occurs during reducing the dose of drugs, then these medicines will be restored in its previous dosage.

All antiepileptic medicines have side effects and there is no benefit of giving medicine which is not able to control the disease, so switching over to the other is good.

Are you sure with your diagnosis. Kindly consult psychologist first. I think you fell down be cause of only epilepsy. But I dont feel it will be schizophernia.

Some anti epileptic drugs like valparin result in weight gain. If the child is seizure free for more than 2 years you can stop the drugs by gradually tapering.

Eptoin is a medicine given for epileptic patients. If you have had a phase of epileptic attack after accident thaen it is not advisable to stop it till the full course is completed. But if the same has been prescribed for significant irritability, anger or other uncontrollable emotional upheavals after the accident then relaxation methods, emotion focused therapy, controlled breathing techniques etc can help. But its not advisable to stop the medicines abruptly. If you want to stop the medicines...more

Epilepsy medication should never be discontinued suddenly. In your case, we should first determine why you had epilepsy in 1st place. If its due to a brain stroke which would have occured due to irregular heart rhythm, then you may need medicine for epilepsy. If seizures are well controlled and there is no persistent cause, we can consider tapering and stopping phenyotin gradually and continue on leviteracetam. Consult a neurologist before changing or stopping medicines.