Posted by headachequeen on December 18, 2003, at 15:54:02
In reply to Re: headachequeen, posted by Beck on December 17, 2003, at 22:28:44
> Ok, so two questions,
> 1. Since I only take 1/2 of 25 mg. then after 2 weeks take 25 mg. and increases by 1/2 25 mg. every two weeks, will I most likley not lose weight until I'm at a high dose?(Which I dont plan to take moere than 100mg.)
> 2.Do the cognitive effects occur t higher doses?I can only speak to my own experience with the Topomax of course, but I followed a slow titration, starting with 25 mg in the evening and working up to 200 mg as I said, then adding 25 mg in the morning and working up to 200 mg in the morning...
officially I am on 200 mornings and evenings now... but I am thinking of changing to 300 mornings and 200 evenings (slowly of course) and dumping one hundred of the tegretol...
thinking about it...
no one seems to want to take responsibility for the change and no one seems to want to be in the office until some time in january and I am TIRED of the Tegretol side effects but I know, that is another board.... sigh...
at any rate, at this point, I have NO cognitive or speech impairment from the Topomax...
there is no longer that slowness or search for words or thoughts... and no longer the slurred speech either... and that used to really bother me...the weight loss started as soon as I started the Topomax.. I know, people here are tired of hearing that I lost three pounds the first week on Topomax, but it happened and it blew me away...
I forgot that the idea was to stabilise the seisure activity (stabilise it? to stop it !!!!) and to hope the side effect would be to stop the migraines and it did that too...at the present time I am comfortable with the Topomax...
Yes, I drink loads of water... but then I have been on Tegretol for ages and been warned that I have to drink water by the gallon with it too... then along came Topomax and the same warning... then along came the Prednizone and antibiotic because of a major asthma attack and more water...
and I had to wonder, did the drink plenty of water warning mean more water or would the same plenty of water suffice??? so I drank an extra two glasses a day in case... have to keep all these medications happy...the past two days or so I have been doing some serious reading about hypomania and wondering why the psychiatrist could not have taken five minutes to explain himself as well as people here did and as well as the internet has done...
and why is it that he gets paid so much better than the psychologists??? and why does OHIP recognise psychiatry but not psychology??? enquiring minds want to know...
It gave me something to think about and kept me from hiding in the darkened room for a while, so that was a positive thing...
and while I was doing all this wondering I wondered if it might not help to change from Tegretol and its incredible side effects to the extra Topomax to which my body seems to adjust comfortably and hope that it would help my mind adjust to the depression that I am told I do not have...
oh a lot of wondering going on here...
I keep looking at the prescriptions for effexor and zyprexor which I have not taken to have filled as yet... and which I do not want to have filled if I can help it...
I was lucky once and came off them cold turkey; I was too naive and stupid to realise it was not supposed to happen that way... I may not be that lucky a second time...
so I would prefer not to start...
kat
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