A Revelation on the Essex Road
Over the last few weeks I have been increasingly drowsy during some days. I have put it down to the Keppra I have been taking and going to bed late the night before. But in researching Keppra, I had found that several serious sites say that the side effects of the drug, may be mitigated by taking vitamin B6. Now coeliacs may be deficient in B6, as they don’t eat some of the foods like breakfast cereals, that are enriched with the vitamin. It’s a bit more complicated than that, but this paper from the Netherlands has shown links, between coeliacs, vitamin B6 and strokes.
So could this be the problem? My vitamin B6 levels may be too low to help the Keppra! After all it hasn’t been checked for several months, which was before I started taking the Keppra.
So I walked straight into a pharmacist and bought some tablets.
They can’t do me any harm, but just might help to get a proper balance between being asleep and awake.
The Anonymous Widower 
Easier ways to get Vitamin B6, which every woman knows … it’s in CHOCOLATE!!
Comment by Karrie | December 23, 2010 |
As a coeliac I eat very little chocolate. Perhaps I should eat more.
Comment by AnonW | December 23, 2010 |