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Aged 30-49
Interview EP18  

Interview EP18

Age at Interview: 35
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 1
Background: Care assistant; married, no children.
Brief outline:Diagnosed with epilepsy in 1967, at a few months of age. Tried various anti-epileptic drugs and had neurosurgery in 1997 which reduced the frequency and intensity of seizures. Current medication: lamotrigine (Lamictal) and sodium valproate (Epilim).


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Explains how her drug dosage was altered because she felt tired and looked pale.

 



Have you continued on the same medication since then?

No you see, not the same dosage. I've been on the same tablet, you know type of tablets but not the dose. I was on the combination of Epilim and lamotrigine and I was on a few more Epilim than that I was and only a little lamotrigine. That was after the operation and that's when I was well and we thought well just a little of the lamotrigine is fine. But then they increased the dosage of the lamotrigine and lowered the dosage slightly of the Epilim, and I was still OK for a while. And then of course last year, early last year I think it was, when he changed the medication again, he took me off Epilim altogether, just kept me on lamotrigine. And then that was also when I was told I was looking terrible, I was really pale, I looked tired and ill, just not you know, not myself at all. As soon as I went back on to the Epilim again I'm looking brighter, even though like I'm tired and I don't feel too great, I'm told that my eyes are so much brighter and I'm more sort of you know with it. 
Jonathan Miller - Epilepsy
Epilepsy
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