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Asked for male, 22 years old from Bangalore
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MBBS, MD - Psychiatry, MBA (Healthcare)

Psychiatrist•Davanagere
It is recommended that you do not drink alcohol because it does reduce your seizure threshold thus making you more likely to have a seizure or a fit and lower the effect of the medication levetiracetam. Smoking is also recommended to be stopped due to many reasons. I hope you are able to do it. We can certainly help clarify any concerns you may have.
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MD - Homeopathy, BHMS

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Better consult your physician and then change any medicine. Don't take risk of taking treatment from a doctor who does not know about your case.
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General Physician•Alappuzha
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Levetiracetam is used with other medications to treat seizures (epilepsy). It belongs to a class of drugs known as anticonvulsants. Levetiracetam may decrease the number of seizures you have.Levacetam 500 Tablet is an anti-epileptic medicine. It is used to control and prevent epileptic seizures. You may experience sleepiness and irritability while taking this medicine. This medicine should not be stopped abruptly without consulting your doctor as it may increase the occurrence of fits.
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DM - Neurology, Fellowship Epilepsy

Neurologist•Bangalore
Hi,
the suffix xr, er, sr, od and cr all refer to drug formulations which help to pronlog the duration of action of the drug. These letters stand for extended release, sustained release, once daily and controlled release formulations.
This is achieved by slowing down the release of the drug and its absorption from the intestine by various techniques.
As far as treating epilepsy is concerned there are some advantages of using this kind of medications where the number of dosages per da...more
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MBBS, M.S Obstetrics & Gynaecology, F.MA...read more

Gynaecologist•Chennai
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You can breast feed the baby if the baby is older than 2 months, contact personally if you want to know more details.
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MBBS, Diploma In Otorhinolaryngology (DL...read more

ENT Specialist•Bangalore
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Dizziness is one of the known side effects of levetiracetam (tab levera 500). Please get back to your neurophysician to help you out.
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MD - Psychiatry, MBBS Bachelor of Medici...read more

Psychiatrist•Mumbai
H, If you take torleva 500 are levetiracetam 500 mg. So please check if the medicine you got has the same ingredient or not.
Hope this helps.
Asked for male, 27 years old from Bangalore Rural
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MBBS, DPM

Psychiatrist•Bangalore
Both of them have the same drug.
But each ones absorption and duration of action is modified by manufacturing process of the drug.
If your doctor has prescribed it for fits control, she/he must have calculated the peak action of the drug around the time of fits. So, take accordingly for effective control of fits.
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Neurologist•Kolkata
Brivaracetam can surely cause mood swing though less than levetiracetam. However, occasionally levetiracetam can cause less behavioral disturbances when compared to brivaracetam .there are many antiseizure drugs that does not worsen mood or anxiety like lamotrigine or carbamazepine. These two drugs rather stabilize mood. Alternatively, levetiracetam can be restarted after discussing with a neurologist as levetiracetam dose can be increased more that what your son was taking.
Asked for female, 56 years old from Mumbai
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MD Medicine, DM Neurology

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Hello,
though this kind of problem as a side effect of levera is not recorded and as you have been taking medicine for years and the dose has been decreased the chance of side effects of this nature are less. This is a kind of startle syndrome and does not seem to be part of seizures or side effects some medicine I think adequate rest and proper sleep may get rid both of your pain and startle syndrome, best to review after 2 weeks.
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