Posted by bridgey1128 on January 2, 2005, at 21:11:57
In reply to Re: topomax, posted by rainy on January 2, 2005, at 20:14:05
Robert, your wife is probably having such a bad reaction to it because she started at such a high dosage like rainy said. You should ALWAYS start at the bottom and slowly work your way up. How long has she been at 50mg? If possible back down to the 25mg for a tad and then when she evens out then in a week or so THEN go up to the 50mg. Every 2 or 3 weeks then you can go up to the next dosage and no sooner. Otherwise you can have pretty bad side effects. I take it for bipolar and when I went up too soon I lost my eyesight until Kat told me to back down. ONce I did, just like she said, it went back to normal and ever since I haven't had many problems. The only time I have had problems was when I actually needed to go up and didn't. Topomax actually KEEPS me from being irritable and witchy so I don't know why it causes that in someone unless they went up on the dosage too quickly or another drug maybe caused it and it was to blame, who knows. It has worked for me quite well by itself although I know that a lot of people take other drugs along with it. Thankfully it DOES work by itself because I can't afford to take anything else!
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