Posted by AKC on August 13, 2001, at 20:58:25
In reply to Re: Topamax: Activating??? » akc, posted by chloe on August 13, 2001, at 19:57:28
> AKC,
> Did you discontinue the Topamax? I know you had a tough time when you pushed the dose. Were you unable to restablize at 150 mgs? Did you find that anxiety became an issue with Topamax?
>No -- I am at 150 mg and holding. I crashed 9 days ago. The day after, while my pdoc was still out of town, I on my own went down to the 150 on the topamax and back up to the 75 mg on the Effexor -- a level that had me at a pretty steady state for a few weeks. My pdoc got back the next day and I was still crashing, so she started to add back in the lithium. As I continued to crash, we quickly went back up to 900 mg of lithium - the level I was at before we decided to try the topamax. So now I am on both. I see her again on Wednesday. I am sure we will discuss pulling me back off the lithium. I didn't have as much trouble today with the anxiety -- could be that the lithium is already supressing my thyroid and I am on my way to sedation city. Or it could be that with the lower dose of topamax, I am not as activiated. I am only now suspecting that the topamax might have been adding to the anxiety I was having prior to my crash. When I was at 175 mg I had a rough weekend, but blamed it on work -- labeled it "normal" anxiety. Looking back, I am not sure it was so normal. It is hard to tell with all the changes in meds the past two weeks. I'll keep you posted.
AKC
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