Posted by headachequeen on January 27, 2004, at 16:54:23
In reply to Re: Just for weight loss, posted by blueeye on January 26, 2004, at 22:55:04
> I have to laugh about all the weight loss stuff and topomax. I took Depakote for ten years, and have taken Topomax for just over a month and dropped the 20 pounds Depakote packed on. The hair loss is nothing like the clumps that fell out with Depakote. One thing-my pdoc said people on Topomax were "collapsing;" three to five people in my rural area-anyone heard of that? I TAKE it for bi-polar and seizure disorder, so for God's sake...
> She switched me to trileptil and is ever so slowly bringing me back up on the topomax (25mg per 2 weeks) for the bi-polar treatment. Yes, it makes you feel like a walking drunken idiot for awhile, but THAT PASSES. It seems many forget that the side effects do actually PASS.
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> God Bless.
I take it for epileptic seizures as a secondary med and it has never caused any sort of collapse or my neuro would never have prescribed it...
epilepsy is a big enough problem for heaven's sake without that...
anyone I know who is on Topomax is usually prescribed it on a slow schedule of increments... 25 mg for two weeks then a 25 mg increase for the next two weeks and so on...
at the moment I am taking 400 mg each evening and 400 mg each morning so as to be able to cut back on TEgretol to see if that makes any difference in the reactions to the tegretol...
the side effects to the topomax have reduced greatly over the months but the tegretol seems to keep on keeping on...
and it did not really take effect until the topomax was added...
so why is topomax secondary is what I want to know...
as for collapsing??? this is the first I have heard of it....
interesting indeed
kat
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