Posted by headachequeen on April 12, 2005, at 13:53:06
In reply to Re: topomax pain-ramping schedule » hurtinhead, posted by Cairo on April 12, 2005, at 9:25:50
> I've been prescribed Topamax for Fibromyalgia pain . Because I am extremely sensitive to meds, my doc suggested the following schedule: 15mg at bedtime for two weeks (during that time I felt very dizzy and had difficulty writing, like the instructions to form the letters couldn't make it from my brain to my hand; it went away after two weeks. Fatigue was extreme, but is better now); now we're up to 15mg twice a day; after that 25mg at bedtime for one week, then increase at weekly intervals by 25mg, always adding the extra 25mg at bedtime. If fatigue or other side effects are too much, stick to previous dose for two weeks before increasing. If fatigue is too much, we may consider adding Provigil. She says that in her experience with Fibromyalgia and all the various meds she's tried with her patients, her "desert island" choice as of today is Topamax, though she is waiting for Pregabalin to be released in June.
At last a doctor with a slow approach to this...
My sister-in-law fell and broke her back... putting up Christmas lights in a tree... and has metal rods and pins and I don't know what all through and beside her spine as well as huge pain that sometimes requires morphine (she has a prescription for those days)
she was also given topomax to deal with the pain...
and the spasms of pain...
and it worked very well....
kat
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