Posted by jamielynn on December 8, 2002, at 0:17:12
In reply to Re: Topomax woes, posted by whittba on December 2, 2002, at 17:24:29
Just a brief history on myself - in case anyone wanted to know. Although I was having depressive days-sometimes longer than others. I had went to the doc for the depression & downright lousy moods! I am sure you know what I mean. I was a non smoker exercised regular but had put on aprox 70 lbs in 4 years. I had always been at 150 forever. Then I started smoking sometime in the mix.(now I really feel bad.)Now everyone says its age (42) After trying prozac, then wellbutin - none really helped
but on the other hand when I started getting side effects,i.e. slowing down, tiredness more that usual, which meant I didn't care if I did anything all day! I got off of them both. Finally I noticed my vision would go away in my left eye only and just for about 15 seconds at a time. After seeing a optometrist, several mri's and a couple doppler tests they found I had a psudo tumor. Now with psudo meaning "fake" guess what-no real tumor (good news) but no one -including my nuro. can tell me why this happens. When the nuro told me since she couldn't find out what it was she was going to call it MIGRAINE headaches and give me topamax for weight loss I did't put much trust in her. (Since I hadn't had a headache in several years!)
I decided to do my own research on the Topo and all the rest and you all have really helped me decide to just keep watching and see what goes on for me since the side effects are at the present worse than the depression (most days if ya know what I mean) I hope you all find the right combo for yourselves! I know the struggle you are going thru. !!! Good luck !! jamielynn
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