Posted by headachequeen on March 14, 2005, at 23:16:19
In reply to Re: topomax pain, posted by proserpine on March 14, 2005, at 14:30:35
> i am sorry, i am having a difficult time following the threads properly.
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> is topomax also used for -treating- nerve pain or is it known for -causing- nerve pain??
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> i should have noted in my first post, but forgot (now as the topomax has begun to leave the building (known as my body) my ability to think is returning), i have trigeminal neuralgia, which i suppose is somewhat comparable to a lot of the nerve pain i am seeing mentioned, except it is in my face & is now being treated only by neurontin (gabapentin), which is also used to treat depression (as is the topomax, for which it is being used on me, as was the somewhere abovenoted (other post) effexor). could i get percocet, i wouldnt bother w/ any of it.
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> as far as i can tell, & tell i can, the topomax is making the headaches WORSE. trigeminal neuralgia is considered "the worst pain known to humankind" (or somesuch, as quoted from the trigeminal neuralgia website). the neurontin holds it down, so i just get --echoes-- of "the worst pain known to humankind" from the incompetence-&-outer-space-inducing topomax.
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> i am fond of all of my doctors. but they are blindsided by the hmo system under which they work. so it will be an endless cycle of peculiar medications i think. i just would like to know how to head off the worst of the side effects if at all possible-- right now all i can eat is pineapple & jalapeno pepper pizza & water-- & driving is, as they say, right out.
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> is anyone else here having similar problems?? nobodys problems can be -exactly- these. i mean, that would be -too- funny.Since my eye surgeries I have had problems with neural pain above one eye and my doctor told me that it is often treated with aeds... so topomax would logically or Could logically be prescribed for that purpose...
problem here was that I was on three aeds and none were solving the problem so they prescribed an older tranquiliser that was effective in solving pain problems of that sort; not sure if it did or not but it certainly made me sleep....
used to almost grind my fist into my eye to try and stop the pain...
really helpful to healing surgeries!
kat
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