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Re: Topamax for anxiety/panic/bipolar? » HS

Posted by platinumbride on October 1, 2003, at 8:14:22

In reply to Topamax for anxiety/panic/bipolar?, posted by HS on September 30, 2003, at 9:50:50

> Hi
>
> I'm new to this thread - I am joining you from the Effexor XR group, which I am on as well for depression. I suffer from generalised anxiety disorder and panic disorder as well as depression - my psy thinks I might be bipolar, but the jury is still out on that one.
>
> Many people here seem to be discussing the weightloss side of things (which obviously I would also be very happy to experience). Is there anyone else out there with similar problems to me and if so, what have your experiences been?
>
> Hetty

Hetty,
To be frank, I am BipolarII. So many of the depression meds and mood stablizers have been culprits in weight gain (OK, OK, so has my great fork to mouth exercising!!!), that when my shrink mentioned topomax as a potentially new option for a mood stablizer I jumped on it.
I just came off of a wave of hypomania, shot down by seroquel (a drug I will never take again, if I can help it). I guess I am so obsessed with the weight loss thing and the side effects (headache and losing words for me) of the topamax, that I haven't paid attention to other things. Most of my horrific anxiety has been abated for a while, though it certainly rears its ugly head when it wants to. The same is true of panic. Mood swings I toss up, for the most part, to being a woman <smiles>. Oh, and being fat.
With meds it is always a "luck of the draw" thing. That is why it is important to have a shrink who isn't waiting for us to leave so he can go play golf. Lamictal is a big anticonvulsant (as is tompamax) used as a mood stablizer (for bipolar symptoms). Well, for me, I guess it has helped with some of the devastating depression, but not the highs that are a little over the top...that's why I needed the seroquel to get me sleeping again.

Please keep me posted (no pun intended). There are a bunch of options out there...


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