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Phenytoin (Phenytoin) - monitoring more than 4,200 patients

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What does it do?

This product is used in the treatment of seizures and epilepsy. It works by stabilizing the neurons in the central nervous to prevent hyperexcitability which can induce a seizure.

Last text update: 2010-12-14

Last data update: 2012-01-14

Usage:

Phenytoin is most commonly used to treat the conditions below, together with the percentage of all people taking the medication for the particular condition.

Epilepsy/Seizures	100%
Bipolar Disorder	2%

General Information:

7.9: Phenytoin Average Satisfaction Score

83% of patients are at least somewhat satisfied with Phenytoin.
36% of patients wish they were told more before they started taking Phenytoin

MediGuard regularly polls our more than 4,200 users taking Phenytoin (or similar drugs with the same active ingredient(s)) using the Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medications (TSQM). This feedback is continuously updated for the benefit of the MediGuard community. To request scores for specific patient subgroups, please contact research@mediguard.org.

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I have been taking dilantin for some 60 years and I have not had a seizure in those years. I did have peridontal work done about 20 years ago, but my gums have been in good shape since then. It is a drug that definitely changed my life for the better.

74 year old – Source: MediGuard
Posted: 2011-07-17 12:44:44

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I have been on Dilantin for about 10 yrs now as well about 10 other medications, I'm also a diabetic. I don't see many of the possible side effects accept for my teeth. My teeth are decaying faster than they should at 50 yrs old. Soon I will be getting what are left of my top teeth removed and an upper plate will replace them. I do not know if the dilantin has caused this or any of my other meds for that matter. Being a diabetic, epilectic, and asmatic makes it hard to figure it all out!

49 year old – Source: MediGuard
Posted: 2011-06-26 10:37:40

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It will be two years now,But after taking Dilantin for over 50 years, they changed their delivery system from a capseal to a capsule. Nobody was told of the change, not pharmacists, doctors or patients. My dilantin level went crazy, I had a seizure whike driving and totalled my car. Have regained health but my pharmacist replaced the Pfizer product with a generic that is contained in the capseal delivery system. Pfizer was wrong to change and not tell anyone.

75 year old – Source: MediGuard
Posted: 2011-05-28 14:49:58

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