It happens to many epileptic patients that they feel that their symptoms have been well controlled lately and they make the decision to stop their medication on their own. This is actually a very incorrect thing to do and very dangerous.

First of all, let's be clear, there is a reason why epilepsy symptoms are well controlled, and that is because you have been taking anti-epileptic medication, and it is due to the medication's effect that your epilepsy symptoms are controlled, and if you stop taking the medication suddenly, it will inevitably result in repeat seizures. And often when the seizure recurs again, it will usually be more difficult to control than before, it may cause the previous dose of medication are difficult to control the situation occurs, you need to increase the dose or adjust other drugs to control, which will inevitably bring negative impact on our long-term treatment.

Secondly, for people with epilepsy, adherence to long-term medication is essential, and you can't make your own judgment and stop the medication out of hand. And our stopping medication is often required, according to each person's condition is not the same, stopping medication indications are not the same, at least 3-5 years without seizures (including grand mal and petit mal seizures, etc.), and to be confirmed through the EEG test of the examination of the same seizure-free before you can slowly stop the medication. And the process of stopping the medication often lasts for several months as well, making sure to start with a small dosage reduction that lasts for one to two weeks or even longer, and then continue if there are no seizures. Keep in mind that the slower the taper process, the safer it is. If a seizure occurs during the tapering process, return to the original dose immediately.

The above principles of drug reduction are only generalizations, while each patient is individualized, can the drug be stopped? How to reduce the drug? This should be done according to your doctor's instructions. Blindly stopping the drug is likely to cause several years of treatment to be lost.

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Dr. Hao Yong, Associate Chief Physician, Department of Neurology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, replied:

This is a representative question about drug reduction. In fact, when we often communicate with patients about drug reduction, many of them are especially worried about the side effects of the drug and want to reduce the drug earlier. Our doctors usually say that if they have not had a seizure for at least two years, they can consider reducing the medication. In this case, it is also for patients who are particularly anxious to reduce their medication. If there are no obvious adverse reactions or side effects during the patient's medication, my personal opinion is to consider reducing the medication after five years of no seizures. Because there are corresponding studies suggesting that five years without seizures, stopping the drug. And five years without seizures continue to take the drug, the two epilepsy recurrence rate is comparable. That is to say, if you have no seizures for five years, this time, you reduce the drug is relatively safe. If he stops taking the medication after two or three years, the risk of seizure recurrence is significantly higher than five years. That's one thing.

Another point is that this patient has a soft focus in his occipital lobe, and whether this soft focus is the cause of this seizure or not has to be evaluated. Based on his electrophysiologic clinical symptoms, it can be clarified. If there is a close relationship, I suggest that it may take a little longer to reduce the medication, at least five years, and if there is no direct relationship and you want to reduce the medication sooner, you can try to reduce the medication.

Epilepsy is still cured by Chinese medicine as much as possible, under 18 years old has the hope of being completely cured, don't go running after the anti-ancient Chinese medicine people, they have a political agenda. They have a political agenda. You are the parent of a patient, you want your child to be well and your whole family to suffer less. If you follow them, it is you who will suffer, and it is your children who will suffer. When some people hear that epilepsy can be cured under the age of 18, it seems that the sky is going to fall down so thunderously.

You can stop taking the medication, but it is not particularly good for the treatment of epilepsy, because many people who use drugs to treat epilepsy will be affected by the side effects caused by the drugs, so the treatment of drugs is not for some patients is not very suitable, therefore, the treatment of epilepsy can also be considered the use of instrumentation, if you are interested in epilepsy therapeutic instrument, you can go to know about the Giovanni epilepsy therapeutic instrument. Giovanni's Epilepsy Treatment Instrument is a good treatment instrument for epilepsy, which has a great effect on the treatment of epilepsy.

Absolutely not. Want to sustained control of epileptic seizures, alleviate their clinical symptoms, and even make the condition cured, it is necessary to use long-term, regular, continuous use of drugs, so that there is a certain concentration of drugs in the body's blood, in order to achieve the effect of antiepileptic. Patients can not because the condition improves without authorization to stop or change the amount of medication or usually do not take medication, such as temporary seizures in the medication, which will only aggravate the condition will not get better.