Posted by platinumbride on September 30, 2003, at 7:23:47
In reply to Re: new to topamax, need some advice » platinumbride, posted by Jenni H on September 29, 2003, at 9:46:01
> Hey... Im new to topamax too, im quite obese and im only on 25mgs a day so when i hear that some of you guys are on 150 a day i really wanna increase my dose! I havent noticed any affect, but im being a bit eager cos ive only been on them 4 days hehe :) But id like to chat to others and find out stuff about it for sure!! message on here then maybe we can email...
> Jenny H...I am at my wits end...
I have been on Topamax for almost 3 weeks now. At first I felt its effects of appetite loss. Now, I feel as if I am more hungry. My doctor is very interested in stablizing my moods and also nelping me reduce my incredible corpulence. I went to the gyno yesterday and weighed in at 240. Of course that caused an nice binge for me. Everyone seems to be losing weight and appetite on this med except for me!!! <whine whine>
How long have you been on it? Some people say that you have to wait a while for it to kick in...or that you have to get to your ideal doseage.
I have just pushed my doseage up to the max of 400 mgs/day. It is my experience that I need the max dose of any drug I take....well, almost any drug :).
Please feel free to keep up a dialogue with me. Maybe we can even give each other bogus email addresses so that if we choose to email and some spammer reads this, we are safe for a while from dumb spam!!!!
I really do wish you luck!
PB
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> > I felt the decrease in appetite immediately....then I wanted to eat like a pig again. I went up to 50 mgs, lost some appetite, started eating a lot again, etc...am now at 150/day. All of the other side effects are there again, and I am getting the appetite under control, but how many stupid milligrams am I going to have to take before I see results? I am really disenchanted and sad about this. Why go through the other side effects if I am not going to stop eating like a sow???
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