It’s quite common for people with epilepsy to miss a single dose once in a while. Often nothing bad happens but your chance of having a seizure may be higher. Missing one dose is more likely to cause seizures if you’re scheduled to take your medicine only once a day. Then if you miss a dose, you’ve missed a full day of medication. If you take it two to four times a day, the risk from missing one dose is less. But if you miss several doses in a row, the likelihood of a breakthrough seizure will be higher.
We recommend that you should always carry some spare tablets with you in case you do forget to take your tablets. If you remember that you have forgotten the morning dose of tablets before 4 pm you should take the morning dose when you remember and your evening dose as normal.
However, if it is after 4 do not take your morning dose and just take your evening dose earlier and then get back on track the following day. It may help to reduce the risk of missing medication by putting an alarm in your phone, using a Dossett box or getting an alarmed pill box.