Psycho-Babble Medication | about biological treatments | Framed
This thread | Show all | Post follow-up | Start new thread | List of forums | Search | FAQ

Re: topomax

Posted by lorilu on October 30, 2004, at 9:37:15

In reply to Re: topomax, posted by rainy on October 28, 2004, at 16:33:21

> This is for NeNe. My sense of time is all screwed up so it seems like ages since you posted. How are you doing?
> I was cognitivly bonkers at 400 mgs and mean as can be, but I blamed it on the medicine, not me. Moods were, well, more or less irritable. But then I was on Lamictal, too, and felt immediately better when I stopped that supposedly effective drug. That was more than a year ago, so my memory is sort of foggy. I do remember that 400 mgs of Topamax was not a fun time in my life. It's working now, at 300.
> You wrote on the 24th, I think, that you get yourself all depressed when your moods go bouncing around. Are you taking Topamax as a mood stabilizer? From what you wrote, things were a little topsy turvy in your life at that time.
> How now?
> rainy
>
>


Hi,
I also take 400mg.of Topamax and it wipes me out cognitively. I also take 200 mg. of Provigil but if I have some big reports or meetings with parents planned (I am a special ed. teacher)I will drop down to 200 mg. of Topamax. Last May I had 10 parent meetings and there was no way I could be in a "fog". On 400 mg. I sometimes say the wrong word or call a kid by the wrong name. I can't look stupid at these meetings, especially when my boss comes and sometimes an advocate for the kid. The day the last meeting was over I was back on 400 mg! I can feel a difference from 400 to 200. The provigil really helps stay focused, though. P.S. I take Topamax as a mood stabilizer and I also take Effexor.


Share
Tweet  

Thread

 

Post a new follow-up

Your message only Include above post


Notify the administrators

They will then review this post with the posting guidelines in mind.

To contact them about something other than this post, please use this form instead.

 

Start a new thread

 
Google
dr-bob.org www
Search options and examples
[amazon] for
in

This thread | Show all | Post follow-up | Start new thread | FAQ
Psycho-Babble Medication | Framed

poster:lorilu thread:5053
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20041029/msgs/409114.html