Tag: Honeymoon effect

For approximately 30% of people with epilepsy, medications lose their effectiveness over time, raising the question: **Can you build a tolerance to epilepsy medication?**. This phenomenon is a form of drug resistance, where the body's adaptive changes can cause a previously effective antiseizure medication (ASM) to become less powerful, leading to a return of seizures.

Approximately 30-40% of people with epilepsy develop what is known as drug-resistant or medically refractory epilepsy. This condition can sometimes be linked to a phenomenon where your body gets used to seizure medication, a process known as drug tolerance.