Posted by Cece on October 4, 2010, at 14:46:46
In reply to Re: Topamax As An Adjunct To An AD, posted by Enigma on September 28, 2010, at 16:11:19
I tried Topomax as a mood stabilizer when it first came out, I think I took 100mg for about 10 months. It didn't do anything for me as a MS, but I lost 40# of med weight without even trying- it was great!
However, I had to go off it because I began to get terrible cognitive dysfunction. By the time I stopped, I could barely put a sentence together in the right order. Bummer.
A few years later I tried it again for weight loss, but the cognitive problems came back immediately even though they took several months to develop first time around.
Have other people had this problem with Top?
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> I was given topamax to actually lose weight. It reacts horribly with Nardil (for me, caused horrible gas), but on it's own, it curbs my appetite, and who knows what else, but 100-200 mg a day, and I've lost 15 or so pounds after stopping Nardil, in only a few weeks, which wouldn't allow me to shed a single pound, no matter what diet (exercise was impossible on Nardil due to the sweating side-effect), and it didn't matter, because if I did, I still wouldn't shed an ounce).
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> But, Topamax did 0, nada, nothing for my mood, what-so-ever. I have severe-depression now, starting with bipolar disorder, many years ago.
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> I highly recommend it for weight loss... it worked for me when everything else failed. I used it 3 times to lose weigh I gained from 3 different drugs. Seroquel, Fanapt?, and something else.. forgot the time...
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