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d establish a more successful partnership with their healthcare providers:
  • 1. Work with your healthcare provider to find the medication that works best for you.
  • 2. Talk with your healthcare provider about specific risks and benefits, both short and long term.
  • 3. If you are planning a pregnancy or you are pregnant, talk with your healthcare provider as soon as possible.
  • 4. Do NOT stop or reduce your medication for any reason without advice from your healthcare provider.
  • 5. Take a multivitamin containing folic acid before and after conception
  • 6. If you become pregnant, enroll in the North American Pregnancy Registry (888-233-2334 or www.aedpregnancyregistry.org) as soon as your pregnancy is confirmed.
  • 7. Make sure that your anticonvulsant blood levels are monitored during pregnancy, and that your dose is changed as needed to prevent seizures or worsening of your condition
  • 8. Ask about ways to prevent long-term effects such as osteoporosis.
  • 9. If weight change occurs, ask your health care provider about diet options, medication alternatives and lifestyle adjustments that may help.
  • 10. Stay on top of emerging information about anticonvulsant drugs.


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Contact: Kimberli Meadows
kmeadows@efa.org
301-918-3747
Epilepsy Foundation
4-Oct-2005


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