Posted by headachequeen on June 9, 2005, at 22:06:13
In reply to Re: New to Topomax, posted by stresser on June 2, 2005, at 19:09:23
> Bridgey!!!!!!!
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> Oh my!!! I have missed you!
> How great to see your post! What were you doing for your BPII, if you weren't taking any medications?
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> My daughter and I never did lose any weight on the topomax. It has worked at leveling out our moods, but M takes Trileptal with hers as well.
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> Can you feel a difference at 50mg yet? Starting back over is a bear, I know that. My daughter had to do it in Jan., because she tried another medication. Titrating up again is long journey, especially when you know where you are going. It must be done. I think the seven pounds will come off, because a similiar thing happend to Kat, and she lost her re-gained weight again. She had to go off Topomax for something last winter.
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> M's hair is still falling out at a slow pace, but she is taking 300mg. When she lowered her dosage to 200mg, it slowed down a bit, but her moods were wacky. I am wondering if the doctor increased her Trileptal and lowered her Topomax, maybe her hair would stop coming out completely? It used to be really thick, and now it's just normal hair, like my hair.
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> I will let you know what happens after the doctor's appt. tomorrow! -L
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>There are special shampoos and vitamin and mineral supplements for people with hair problems... that we can't discuss here...
however at 600 mg a day I am not having any hair loss at all. and I would notice it... so would my stylist!!! I have exceptionally thick hair, another redhead thing <g>
and have now decided to try another radical hair change... going from the short short spiked to a longer, layered look I think... it will take ten years for the hair to grow that long, but this is
my new mission
Somewhere in the posts I have read today I saw tegretol mentioned and I can't remember why...
nothing to do with topomax memory problems but strongly related to the epilepsy...
I have declared war on the condition and have also determined not to take the tegretol as my speech slurs and my mind loses words and concepts when I am on the stuff...
the past few weeks have been truly disastrous to the point that my primary care, who is leaving for the big city, has decided that if he is not happy with what he hears from the neuro when I finally see him on that emergency appointment, the one booked last January, that I shall see another one at once...
yesterday morning another seizure of a new sort, but when I finally came out of it, I had no idea of anyone or anything, who I was, where I was, the whole nine yards...
the topomax and clobozam seem to work to a degree, but if I try adding the tegretol even in a low dose, life becomes very challenging.
Never did like that stuff...kat
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