My 11 year old son is adhd, and was taking vyvanse 70mg, and seroquel 100mg. He experienced a seizure, and the doctor took him off all adhd meds. I am just curious if someone else has been through this. We have had an MRI done and will be seeing a pediatric neurologist next week. Not sure what to expect, but was just wondering if anyone else has had this experience.
Thanks,
Christy
Seuizures are not common with ADHD medications.
According to the FDA (regarding vyvanse):
" There is some clinical evidence that stimulants may lower the convulsive threshold in
patients with prior history of seizure, in patients with prior EEG abnormalities in
absence of seizures, and very rarely, in patients without a history of seizures and no
prior EEG evidence of seizures. In the presence of seizures, the drug should be
discontinued."
and according to AstraZeneca (Manufacturer of Seroquel):
"There is some clinical evidence that stimulants may lower the convulsive threshold in
patients with prior history of seizure, in patients with prior EEG abnormalities in
absence of seizures, and very rarely, in patients without a history of seizures and no
prior EEG evidence of seizures. In the presence of seizures, the drug should be
discontinued."
I hope this information helps.
Eileen
My 19 year old son was taking vyvanse. He was just released from the hospital where he spent 6 days having seizures. He has no history of abnormal EEG's and has never had a seizure prior to taking vyvanse. While in the hospital had a normal MRI and CT scan, but EEG showed "irregular activity."
I just started taking Seroquel 200mg PO at bedtime each night for insomnia. I was currently on Ambien, until I accidently 'slept walked' and took 15 of them in one night. Yeah, we're not too sure how I lived either. It's been maybe 2 weeks on the seroquel, but I have not been taking it faithfully every night. Last night I took two pills, 200mg total and went to sleep. I was told I woke up about 6 hours later, shaking and grinding my teeth and not responding. The boyfriend put his fingers in my mouth (i then told him afterwards that was a no no), then replaced that with a sock after he said I kept biting his fingers too hard. I was unresponsive, foaming from mouth and eyes rolling back in head, and shaking. Of course when he told me all of this later on I laughed, I work in the medical field, but I did not think that could actually happen to me. I called my prescriber, but they will not be back in the office until July 9th, so what should I do? Smart thing would be to hear not to say the seroquel, but then I would have to try to survive through the withdrawlers, that's why I started taking it recently anyways, because of the withrdrawlas.
I have been on Seroquel 25-50mg a night for sleep/mood since 2006. I started experiencing involuntary muscle tremors and my boyfriend told me I twitched a lot in my sleep starting around 2007.
In July I had my first seizure but doctors said it was heat and probably a fainting seizure.
I recently experienced another seizure, this one more severe with longer lasting resulting symptoms that are difficult to describe (just don't eel the same mentally, physically or like myself its weird)...this time I spent almost 8 hours at the hospital. The new neurologist took me off the Seroquel right away though he didn't explain why. I have also been Adderral xr for about a year, not sure if that is related.
Overall I think Seroquel is a really dangerous drug and I don't think these seizures would have started had I not been on it, but whose to say..
I have also been on Lamictal for the same amount of time and the nerologist recently switched me to Lamictal XR (time released) and increased my dosage. I think this is helping, but if anyone knows about Lamictal and its ability to start seizures in someone who didn't previously have them I would be very grateful for the information (or on any o this relaly!)
I hope your son is healthy and strong!
Than All!! :)
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jay is 31 and took one 50mg at 8 am thursday morn, at 3pm that evening he had a seizure while at the post office, he fell and hit his head and was rushed to local hospital. He will not take it any more but was not taking anything else at the time or before, and we are wondering the same if anyone else taking this meds have had a seizure. Thank you for your info...
Yes... My daughter has been diagnosed with add and has been taking vyvanse for quite sometime... This past sunday night she experienced a tonic-clonic seizure. She had an eeg, ekg and mri done this week. No results yet.
I had a seizure at 17 from my first use of seroquel. I was also taking zoloft and depakote. My doctor immediately took me off and told me that medications can have opposite effects for some people.
My 8 year old son has adhd and has been taking vyvanse 30mg for 3 years and has never had any problems until this past weekend i was woken up at 4 am to him having his first seizure. It was the scariest thing ive ever had to experience.. The er did a cat scan which came back fine and we are scheduled to have a mri and eeg done this week.
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I just had my first seizure two weeks ago tomorrow. Very scary including alot of memory loss. Ive been on methodone for chronic pain from RA along with one 1.0 xanax at bedtime to relax, 100 mg of zoloft along with statins and blood press meds. I never had any problems until 3 days into the ambien when I slept walked and did whatever including taking one or two more ambien and having cocktails. Right bfore the seizures I remember a strong smell and taste of chemicals then nothing until the hospital. Had another seizurte upon arriving at the hospital. They put me on phenobarb right away, ruled out epilepsy and kept me on all my meds except ambien. Im glad i read yours and some of the other stories because I was gonna to ask to try seroquel. I wish I had some good old quaaludes. At least u knew it was gonna work as long as u didnt go overboard. My family doctor never warned me about contridictions with alcohol, zoloft etc. so now he is tryin to paint me as a heavy drinker. Hes red faced and backpedling. I think doctors still win prizes and trips for being good writers of new drugs. Seems very unethical.