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Medication List

This is a list of medications that help control seizures 

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1. Brivaracetam

  •       Alone or with other seizure medicines in children aged 1 month and older with focal (partial) seizures.

  •       Briviact injection is approved for use only in adults 16 years and older to treat focal (partial) seizures. 

2. Cannabidiol oral solution 

  •        EPIDIOLEX is a prescription medicine that is used to treat seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, Dravet syndrome, or tuberous sclerosis complex in patients 1 year of age and older.

  •       Blood tests for liver function, called serum transaminases (ALT and AST) and total bilirubin levels   should be done in each person before starting Epidiolex.

  •      The dose in children is based on weight, written as milligrams per kilograms or "mg per kg". It is important to follow the instructions given by the prescribing health care provider.

3. Carbamazepine

  • ​       Alone or with other seizure medicines to treat focal or partial seizures, generalized tonic-clonic  seizures, and mixed seizure types (both generalized and focal or partial). 

  •       It can be used in both children and adults. 

4. Carbamazepine-XR

  •        Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

5. Cenobamate

  •        Focal Aware Onset Seizure

6. Clobazam

  •       Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome

  •       Absence Seizures

  •       Atonic Seizures

  •       Atypical Absence Seizures

  •       Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

  •       Myoclonic Seizures

  •       Refractory Seizures

  •       Secondarily Generalized Seizures or Bilateral Tonic Clonic Seizure

  •       Focal Aware Onset Seizure

  •       Tonic-clonic Seizures

7. Clonazepam

  • Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome

  • Absence Seizures

  • Myoclonic Seizures

8. Diazepam Nasal 

  • Absence Seizures

  • Atonic Seizures

  • Atypical Absence Seizures

  • Clonic Seizures

  • Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

  • Febrile Seizures

  • Myoclonic Seizures

  • Refractory Seizures

  • Secondarily Generalized Seizures or Bilateral Tonic Clonic Seizure

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

  • Tonic Seizures

  • Tonic-clonic Seizures

  • Unknown Onset

9. Diazepam Rectal

  • Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome

  • Absence Seizures

  • Atonic Seizures

  • Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

  • Myoclonic Seizures

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

  • Tonic-clonic Seizures

10. Divalprox Sodium 

  • Absence Seizures

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

11. Divalproex Sodium-ER

  • Absence Seizures

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

12. Eslicarbazepine Acetate

  • Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

  • Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

  • Secondarily Generalized Seizures or Bilateral Tonic Clonic Seizure

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

13. Ethosuximide

  • Childhood and Juvenile Absence Epilepsy

  • Absence Seizures

  • Atypical Absence Seizures

14. Felbamate

  • Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome

  • Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

  • Atonic Seizures

  • Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

  • Refractory Seizures

  • Secondarily Generalized Seizures or Bilateral Tonic Clonic Seizure

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

  • Tonic-clonic Seizures

15. Fenfluramine

  • Dravet Syndrome

  • Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome

16. Gabapentin

  • Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

17. Lacosamide

  • Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

  • Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

  • Secondarily Generalized Seizures or Bilateral Tonic Clonic Seizure

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

18.Lamotrigine

  • Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy

  • Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome

  • Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

  • Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

  • Refractory Seizures

  • Secondarily Generalized Seizures or Bilateral Tonic Clonic Seizure

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

  • Tonic-clonic Seizures

19. Levetiracetam 

  • Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy

  • Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

  • Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

  • Myoclonic Seizures

  • Secondarily Generalized Seizures or Bilateral Tonic Clonic Seizure

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

  • Tonic-clonic Seizures

20. Levetiracetam XR

  • Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

21. Lorazepam

  • Benign Rolandic Epilepsy

  • Childhood and Juvenile Absence Epilepsy

  • Dravet Syndrome

  • Hypothalamic Hamartoma

  • Infantile Spasms/West’s Syndrome

  • Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy

  • Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome

  • Rasmussen’s Syndrome

  • Ring Chromosome 20 Syndrome

  • Reflex Epilepsies

  • Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

  • Absence Seizures

  • Atonic Seizures

  • Atypical Absence Seizures

  • Clonic Seizures

  • Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

  • Febrile Seizures

  • Myoclonic Seizures

  • Refractory Seizures

  • Secondarily Generalized Seizures or Bilateral Tonic Clonic Seizure

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

  • Tonic Seizures

  • Tonic-clonic Seizures

  • Developmental/Epileptic Encephalopathy with Spike Wave Activation In Sleep DEE-SWAS

22. Midazolam Nasal 

  • Absence Seizures

  • Atonic Seizures

  • Atypical Absence Seizures

  • Clonic Seizures

  • Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

  • Febrile Seizures

  • Myoclonic Seizures

  • Secondarily Generalized Seizures or Bilateral Tonic Clonic Seizure

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

  • Tonic Seizures

  • Tonic-clonic Seizures

  • Unknown Onset

23. Oxcarbazepine

  • Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

  • Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

  • Secondarily Generalized Seizures or Bilateral Tonic Clonic Seizure

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

  • Tonic-clonic Seizures

24. Perampanel 

  • Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

  • Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

  • Secondarily Generalized Seizures or Bilateral Tonic Clonic Seizure

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

  • Tonic-clonic Seizures

25. Phenobarbital

  • Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome

  • Rasmussen’s Syndrome

  • Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

  • Clonic Seizures

  • Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

  • Refractory Seizures

  • Secondarily Generalized Seizures or Bilateral Tonic Clonic Seizure

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

  • Tonic Seizures

  • Tonic-clonic Seizures

26. Phenytoin

  • Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

  • Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

  • Refractory Seizures

  • Secondarily Generalized Seizures or Bilateral Tonic Clonic Seizure

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

  • Tonic-clonic Seizures

27. Pregabalin 

  • Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

28. Primidone 

  • Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy

  • Myoclonic Seizures

  • Tonic-clonic Seizures

29. Rufinamide 

  • Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome

30. Stiripentol

  • Dravet Syndrome

31. Tiagabine Hydrochloride

  • Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

32. Topiramate

  • Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome

  • Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

  • Tonic-clonic Seizures

33. Topiramate XR

  • Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome

  • Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

  • Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

  • Refractory Seizures

  • Secondarily Generalized Seizures or Bilateral Tonic Clonic Seizure

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

  • Tonic-clonic Seizures

34. Valproic Acid

  • Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy

  • Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome

  • Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

  • Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

  • Myoclonic Seizures

  • Refractory Seizures

  • Secondarily Generalized Seizures or Bilateral Tonic Clonic Seizure

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

  • Tonic-clonic Seizures

35. Vigabatrin

  • Infantile Spasms/West’s Syndrome

  • Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

  • Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

  • Refractory Seizures

  • Secondarily Generalized Seizures or Bilateral Tonic Clonic Seizure

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

36. Zonisamide 

  • Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

  • Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures

  • Refractory Seizures

  • Secondarily Generalized Seizures or Bilateral Tonic Clonic Seizure

  • Focal Aware Onset Seizure

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