Posted by lorilu on October 30, 2004, at 9:37:15
In reply to Re: topomax, posted by rainy on October 28, 2004, at 16:33:21
> This is for NeNe. My sense of time is all screwed up so it seems like ages since you posted. How are you doing?
> I was cognitivly bonkers at 400 mgs and mean as can be, but I blamed it on the medicine, not me. Moods were, well, more or less irritable. But then I was on Lamictal, too, and felt immediately better when I stopped that supposedly effective drug. That was more than a year ago, so my memory is sort of foggy. I do remember that 400 mgs of Topamax was not a fun time in my life. It's working now, at 300.
> You wrote on the 24th, I think, that you get yourself all depressed when your moods go bouncing around. Are you taking Topamax as a mood stabilizer? From what you wrote, things were a little topsy turvy in your life at that time.
> How now?
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Hi,
I also take 400mg.of Topamax and it wipes me out cognitively. I also take 200 mg. of Provigil but if I have some big reports or meetings with parents planned (I am a special ed. teacher)I will drop down to 200 mg. of Topamax. Last May I had 10 parent meetings and there was no way I could be in a "fog". On 400 mg. I sometimes say the wrong word or call a kid by the wrong name. I can't look stupid at these meetings, especially when my boss comes and sometimes an advocate for the kid. The day the last meeting was over I was back on 400 mg! I can feel a difference from 400 to 200. The provigil really helps stay focused, though. P.S. I take Topamax as a mood stabilizer and I also take Effexor.
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