Posted by headachequeen on March 17, 2004, at 22:31:41
In reply to Re: topomax, posted by witchyminx on March 6, 2004, at 19:06:12
> My doctor is talking about prescribing me a mood stabilizier and/or possibly an antidepressant. My moods seem to need controlled more though. I wanted to bring this med up to him. I get migraines and heard tihs would help. I also heard it is used for keeping moods from getting out of hand. Plus after being on Elavil, I would love to lose the weight seeing as I gained 44 pounds on it (which made me more depressed). May other questions concerning this though, is I have high bood pressure. Has anyone had issues of it either going up or down on Topomax?
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I don't know about mood stabilising... don't know if anything could stabilise my moods...
right now I am suffering cabin fever in the extreme and need to do something to change that..
had planned to be out of here and out in the field training with the dogs but have to wait until after the next eye surgery and after the stitches are out and and and... that makes it into early April...now I have to wait until I see the neuro again about the possible med change and can't see him until 21 April... mood stabiliser??? there is nothing in the world can stabilise my moods right now...
however, migraine has been a successful battle for me with Topomax... almost sixteen months since I have had a migraine or a cluster headache... and I love the peace from pain, believe me!
the weight loss, for me, started with the 25 mg dosage
it was a minor loss but it was three pounds the first week...
while there are those who claim the weight side effect wears off, I know of people who have been off the med for years who still have not changed the food response or the appetite response and I know that my own weight and appetite have not changed and I have been on Topomax since mid-January of last year...
I am now fluctuating between 145 and 148 pounds...
and able to wear size eight jeans and need to look at size small when I choose cargo pants for training work... used to wear size sixteen jeans and large sweaters instead of the small blouses and shirts and sweaters I wear now...
I no longer look at clothes with the attitude that they must be big enough, instead I choose them with the thought that I hope they are going to fit properly and look tailored not sloppy or baggy...
had to give away such a pile of dress pants and blazers and skirts... and then had to go out and find new things that appealed to me...
not easy either... although I have decided to take some blazers (the suede ones) and a couple of skirts and slacks (the suede ones again) that the dogs are used to working with in the ring, to be altered...
I will not give up on favourites...
and I do not like to waste time shopping for clothes...
I have a bizarre taste in clothing at times... either I want to be tailored or really off the wall... radical or proper and I never know which one of me is going shopping at a given time LOL --
thank heaven some of the more bizarre choices in my wardrobe are wraparound skirts...
but the change means no more of the draw string waists...
there really is a change in the weight ... all the anti-depressant gained weight is gone...
my psychologist tells me that some of it is his doing.. he helped me to re-find my self esteem and to find myself... well, to start to find me any way and he thinks that helped...
in other words, liking me again makes me hate food???? I don't understand that one...
But the topomax seems to kill the appetite and the cravings for foods...
instead in my case it has substituted other cravings... if it is true that it eats up the vitamins, then it makes me crave fruit and green vegetables to replace them... and I eat gallons of yoghurt... and no protein is safe within a yard of me...
a couple of ounces of nuts substitutes for the chocolate and chips that used to be consumed by the carload...
strange...
but the other stuff I just don't want...I hope it helps you too
kat
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