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  • A New Epilepsy Drug – Vimpat®

    Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

    Finally, after 6 months of waiting, we were able to see a new neurologist and she suggested that we try Tasya on a new drug called Vimpat®. We were desperately trying to get our daughter off of Topamax® as it was hurting her cognitively and she was beginning to have breakthrough seizures again.
    So one day [...]

    Update on Tasya – Seizures, Health, Behavior and Mood

    Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

    It’s about time I updated everyone on my soon to be 12-year old daughter, Tasya. As anyone who has read my book knows, she has a rare and as of yet, uncatergorized form of epilepsy that was so severe at one time, we thought that either she would die of it or become severely retarded [...]