Posted by storm rider on March 9, 2006, at 10:35:02
In reply to Re: Topomax for Migraines- Generic??, posted by Aleese on March 9, 2006, at 8:50:55
> How long does it take before the topomax makes you not as hungary and allt aht?
I rather imagine that varies from person to person...
and it isn't so much a case of not being hungry as not having the cravings to eat all the time...
at least that was how it worked for me.
I was eating when I didn't know what else to do or was bored or stressed...
When I find myself with nothing to do or things not working according to plan, I have to react and when I am at work, I cannot get up and walk out of the office or the newsroom or whatever...
so when someone says he is going out for pop and a bag of chips, do you want something, why not? better get chips and a chocolate bar, maybe two...
and often when I was working odd hours I would find myself feeling the quiet and the boredom in front of the fridge, taking out the ingredients for a sandwich... I wasn't hungry, but it was something to do when there was no one to talk with...
the meds I was on didn't help as they caused weight gain all by themselves...
so between me and them it was balloon city...within days of starting topomax I noticed that I had lost three pounds...
and it kept coming off slowly and steadily...
nothing dramatic, no fifty pounds in a month the way some of the television ads proclaim, but that is highly dangerous...something in the medication curbs the interest in junk food and binging... I don't understand it, but from a person who was eating whent here was nothing else to do... I liked the way it worked...
and it stopped my headaches and my seizures too...
bonus!
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