Medications

My sister Kathleen is an epileptic and was diagnosed when she had a Grand Maul seizure when she was in the first grade. She is thirteen now and has been on two different medications. The first they had her on was Trileptal. This was a pill she took every twelve hours as partial relief for her seizures. Then when was was within 2 weeks of being able to lower her medicine dose she had another seizure. This happened three times. After this they decided her body was becomming immune to Trileptal so they switched her to Topamax. Where as Trileptal was a drug to help control partial seizures Topamax is an antiseizure medicine. This she takes in smaller doses but she takes this one three times a day. Though she has not had a seizure since she started this medication about a year ago, this pass weekend seh did pass out do to a reaction between her medicine and her blood sugar when she decided not to eat lunch for three days. Other than that she has had no trouble with the medicine. The final medication that has been used is when we were in the hospital and she started seizing they administered a drug called Diastat. Diastat is a rectal administration medication. Used for when a epileptic experiences cluster seizures (many short seizures following each other closely) for prolonged seizures. Diastat works to stop seizure activity by acting on brain cell interactions that inhibit the seizure discharges. Diastat is rapidly absorbed from the lining of the rectum and quickly achieves therapeutic levels in the serum.