Question: can doctors overlook or ignore side affects. was taking 3 100mg dilantin. not having bad side effects. told level too low, take 4 pills. about a week started having bad headaches, staying in bed, problems walking. legs felt like jelly, had to use cane then walker. level checked 27+, told toxic. stop for 1 night, then go back to 3 pills. informed doctors , still having problems with legs (using cane and walker), problems breathing after a short distance and some memory problems. was told by doctor that i am trying to find something or someone to blame. was not having these problems before taking medication and definite not before the 4 pills.

I should have told you that occurred the last week and first week of April/May. I have been still dealing with the walking problem which I tried to get my doctor to listen to yesterday. I am trying to do the walking like he say but as I explained to him, the more I walk the more problems I have with the weakness in the legs and shortness of breath which was the same before they lowered the pills. I am not walking fast at all. I am planning on changing doctors because this is the fourth time I know of he has been extremely short with patients and like he ignores what his patients are reporting to him. If these symptoms continues, I am going to ask if they will take me off the dilantin. There was a lot of things going on at the time of the seizures or just possible stress (probate court and my brother's final days who had been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer).