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Re: Topamax Experiences?

Posted by headachequeen on November 20, 2003, at 14:27:51

In reply to Re: Topamax Experiences? » TexasChic, posted by CaliGirl on November 19, 2003, at 21:33:01

I worry about side effects no end... but as I have a severe problem with asthma and cannot forget the blood pressure problem that has plagued me since I was a teenager, then there are other medications and their side effects to consider too.. and some of them have the same side effects... nausea and eye problems (I love it when they list unspecified eye problems among the side effects... arrgghhh)
However, during the past three weeks, I have had to share the bathroom and shower facilities with three other people, and that means mirror, basin and other hair and make-up facilities... I have a thing... oh, I suppose this will be another issue to discuss with the psychologist... about hair in the basin. I cannot stand washing my hair or doing my hair or putting on make-up or brushing my teeth or whatever, when there is hair in the basin or in the basket in the drain... and I wonder why others cannot clean the little basket thing-y out when they leave the bathroom ... but I have noticed of late that when I clean out the thing before I start to put on make-up and do my hair that there is NO red hair... and I am the only red head on the place... every other colour known to mankind, nature and scientists is represented on the premises, but mine is the only red hair... and there is no red hair in the drain to be cleaned out and very little red hair in the shower or basin ... no more than normally... so I think that the biotin and vitamins are doing their work... not only that but the past few days, while I am tired at night, I am not drowsy during the day... so something is working here...
and that is taking into considerating the reality that several of these medications have side effects that include drowsiness -- not just the topomax...
so, mes cheres amis, if we put our heads together and learn from our shared knowledge and experience, we can manage these side effects and control the problems we are trying to overcome...
even when one med is known to cause weight gain says she groaning to herself....
the course itself is finished and I am packed up and ready to leave... spending time with friends in the area... leaving for home on Monday...
planning to sleep the whole time I am travelling ... and then getting ready to come back for the next course...
I see the neurologist 26 November... the orthopaedist who is going to scream and yell at me 24 November... my regular physician 24 November... and my psychologist 24 November too...we have a lot to talk about he and I... it will be a rugged session, all the issues that have arisen from this past three weeks, and having to walk away from something I have really enjoyed: the challenge, the struggle, the demands I was not sure I could meet, the mental challenge... and having to leave my dogs here as I cannot afford to keep flying them back and forth... a choice I had to make...
they will receive excellent care here... and I would not have made that decision otherwise but it will be so hard to go home without them.. the reason for the appointment immediately after I get home...
my doctor and I are going to discuss side effects so I go better armed to talk with the neurologist... although I do not think I want to give up the Topomax but I want more info on Tegretol!!! and having read an ad on one of the inhalers I am on, I want more info on it!!!!!!! there must be a safer product... this forum has given me the confidence and the background to ask for something else having discovered ads in magazines and on tv that warn of really frightening ads about it...
I have lost no more weight... but I do not crave sweets at all... and do not like pop... opened a can of iced tea, a beverage of choice from the past, five days ago and had to throw it out this morning as I was packing up my things and preparing to leave... chocolate, something I used to love, used to crave on sight if not on mention is of no interest and there is a can of cashews unopened on the desk beside me...
something has changed for the better...
kat


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