Posted by headachequeen on January 8, 2004, at 11:22:56
In reply to Re: Topamax Experiences?, posted by cyimda1 on January 8, 2004, at 8:49:27
> I'm taking Topamax for Migraines....started at 15mg then to 30, now at 45 and will be up to 75 within a week or so. I have experienced MAJOR weight loss--and have never had that problem before--always been a little on the chunky side. I just have zero appetite. Nothing appeals to me. Is that happening to anyone else?? Also--I have just started to experience the tingling sensation and what did the rash look like? I got two very strange spots under my arms that almost looked like "rug burns" like you get when you're a kid tussling around on the carpet. My husband said they looked like bruises, but they didn't hurt at all, they're just starting to fade though. I didn't even think about the Topamax, but now I'm thinking they could have had something to do with the meds because I couldn't figure out where they came from.....
While one of the reasons I was put on Topomax was to curb the migraine problem, I am primarily using it as a secondary med for epileptic seizures...apparently it cannot be used on its own for migraines... sigh... I had high hopes of being able to kick loose of the tegritol
At the beginning, I started on 25 mg in the evening increasing in increments of 25 mg every 2 weeks until I reached 200 mg then starting at 25 mg in the morning on the same schedule until I reached 200 mg in the mornings as well, I had no appetite...
the appetite has returned to some level now...
I am not as ravenously hungry as I used to be and I do not have the same cravings for food that I used to have ...
chocolate is said to be a trigger for migraine and I used to be unable to resist it... now I have little if any interest in it.. not even cocoa on a cold winter evening.. so that is no longer a problem ... and I have been a year without a migraine... it is official as of last evening...I don't know about the bruising and topomax...
I bruise at the drop of a hat in the next county as it is... but have seen no increase with Topomax...
someone else may be able to tell you whether that is a Topomax side effect...
but the appetite suppressant effect seems to level off at some point...
I do know that I lost sixty-plus pounds that I could well afford to lose in the time since I started taking it and am now wearing size ten jeans and skirts and quite pleased about it...
with work and self-control may get back to my original size... but not to the anorexic size... never that...
kat
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