Posted by headachequeen on November 24, 2003, at 15:56:42
In reply to Re: Topamax Experiences?, posted by CaliGirl on November 22, 2003, at 13:52:21
Some one and I think it was Murphia suggested that we look to the vitamin depletion that came with taking Topomax and mentioned the need to take Biotin; in a later post mentioned a megadose, 2500 mg I believe it was and that is what I am taking... come to think of it it may have been 2400 but I am taking 2500 because the tablets I have are 500s... and since I have been taking it I have noticed a great improvement in the hair loss issue...
and I have to admit that my hair is a vanity issue with me...
I am also taking megadoses of vitamin C along with 800 IU of E and a zinc tablet every day.. the C I take half in the morning and half at night same as my dogs... and I take fish oil capsules too... what I put in the dogs' food I take myself... along with that stuff I cannot remember... starts with Conjugated??? there goes the old memory, folks, linoleic acid -- supposed to be very good for you anyway --- it seems to be helping the skin and hair... and I feel better about it all so that must help...but mood swings are now an issue... and I can't blame it on Topomax... my dogs and my music are my life... because of the cost of flying seven dogs back and forth, I chose the wise course and left my dogs in the US in highly skilled and loving hands... I am not worried about their care or the love they will receive while I am here, but I am lost without them...
I said good-bye to them through a flood of tears... I cried all the way to the terminal... I cried half-way home... and since I got here I have been in a constant mood swing... from anger at the strangest and silliest things to tears at the simplest and strangest things... I know it is because my dogs are there and I am here...
I know that their being there is rational... I know I will be back there in about eight weeks... I can rationalise it all... and still I have these incredible episodes that I can only refer to as mood swings...
Given my druthers, I would not want to be around me... this morning, after almost four weeks of being awake and moving, albeit unwillingly I confess, at an early hour, it was all I could do to stumble around at noon... and then I wanted simply to pull the blankets over my head and sleep for a week or so...
standing in the shower it was a toss-up where the most water came from, shower-head or my crying jag...
I do NOT want to go back to that psychiatrist person.. he really did not endear himself to me... nor I to him I imagine... but this can not go on... and I do not think that my 200 mg of Topomax is doing much good as a mood stabiliser...
nor was it prescribed to do so, I realise but something has to give here... and as this is going to be going on for a while until I finish this -- I pity anyone who has to live or work with me...
Most of all I do not want to achieve another stay in that particular psychiatrist's domain... he who informed me that I was not depressed and did not need the care of a psychiatrist... and then proceeded to keep me in hospital for another two weeks.. and told me I was not bi-polar as my GP suspected (I am a creative type of person and when things go right I tend to fly a little in reaction and when things don't go well I do not soar... it is as if I create a manic and depressive behaviour in myself is the best I can describe it and he latched onto that as being bipolar...) then the psychman went on to say I was sub-bipolar or some term that meant that... and totally confused me... I am not depressed I am underdepressed ... and I do not want to see him again because we argue a lot and the psychologist who works with him at the hospital is so easily led... not hard to pull his leash at all...
so reading that Topomax is not helpful in dealing with MOOD swings is not making me happy at all today lol...
sorry for so many switches of mood in the post... but many thoughts churning today... and here seems to be the safe place to say them...anyway, for hair, try the biotin... and megadoses of vitamin C but take the C in half doses part in the morning and part in the evening and only to bowel tolerance and then wait for a while before increasing it...
for years we have used it and biotin for the dogs... and I ought to have known to use them for my own hair... big DOH here... thanks Murphia for the vitamin warning...
kat who is not depressed just a victim of moods that cannot decide what they want to do
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