Posted by Headachequeen on November 14, 2003, at 10:15:02
In reply to Re: Topamax Side Affects! Headachequeen, posted by TexasChic on November 14, 2003, at 8:29:17
> and that's when I noticed the tracers; ghost-like after-images of everything that moves. Like I said earlier, it only lasted a few minutes, and I was never really awake enough to really analyze the whole thing (I also take 50 mg Trazodone (sp?) at night to sleep, so I'm pretty groggy in the mornings), but the experience was weird enough to leave a pretty vivid impression on me. Why do you say this is really important?
>At times I actually see cobwebs in front of my eyes and at other times I have this double vision effect -- the ghost-like after images that you describe, above sometimes and other times below, the things I am looking at... and hard to describe to the doctors... apparently the cobweb effect is linked to cataract and the opthamologist who diagnosed them tells me I am very young to have them... well not my fault after all, he diagnosed them...
but the other ghost images he is unable to link to anything and I think they think I am out of my mind entirely; it does not happen all the time and does not link to the MG ... and I begin to think sometimes that I am losing it entirely...
Is this another side effect of anti-convulsants???
or just of Topomax? and why can I find nothing about Tegretol? or do they just assume that having been around for so long it has no side effects....
so blame it all on Topomax???
meanwhile, thanks for the added help...
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