Posted by Storm Rider on February 14, 2006, at 13:26:38
In reply to Topamax Alcohol, posted by Aleese on February 12, 2006, at 19:26:11
> I was on it for about 2 weeks but had to stop due to lack of money to pay for it-it is soo expensive but I noticed I wanted to do NOTHING I was like a zombie. I never really got to notice the weightloss or lowered appetite because I wasn't on it long enough!! I plan on getting back on it but I wanted to ask about occasional alcohol use...is that harmful with the Topamax???
My sister-in-law was prescribed topomax to deal with spasms in her back...she broke it dramatically a few years ago and has rods and wires and baler twine holding her together so she can walk... some crazy glue too as well as prescription for morphine to cope with the pain...
she tried the topomax and found it controlled the spasm attacks that went with her pain but was told that alcohol was not an option...
no one warned me about it, but then I am not inclined to really like the stuff anyway...
one day she arrived at the door with about four months' supply of topomax... she didn't think doing without a few drinks now and again was worth the relief from spasms...
she had been with friends a couple of nights before and had three or four beers... for her, an alcoholic actually, that was a quiet evening...
the next day she thought she was dying...
the effect of the topomax with the beer...
that was the end of topomax for her..
she had no other side effects...The one time I forgot her warning we were out for dinner to celebrate an anniversary or something and I had a glass of wine, a very light wine as I really do not like wine at all, and liqueur after dinner... the next morning I was sure that I was in the beginning of statis epilepticus...
and anyone who has experienced statis will know how I felt...so my advice would be not to mix the two...
unless one wants to feel really rotten afterwards...it gives the term hangover a whole new meaning !!!
kat...
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