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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR TOPAMAX | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | migrane/vertigo | bleeding and drowsiness for the first week | I feel GREAT, I wasn't sure at first about the drowsiness because I am a single mother and working and going to school full time really concerned me but after the first week it's gone and I have never felt better. No more headaches and no more dizzy spells that I was getting real bad and this drug seems to my a miracle drug and my Dr. started me on 25mg and we have had to only up the dosage to 50mg so far, I have only been on 3 weeks as of now and loving it, I just can not express how great and back normal I feel. | F | 33 | 3 weeks | 4/18/2005 | 5 | peripheral neuropathy | mental confusion, spelling errors, etc. weight loss. I had migraines but didn't know topamax would take care of that. They're gone! And most of my side effects are too except I still struggle at times with | F | 50 | 7 years | 5/1/2005 | 5 | MIGRAINES, DEPRESSION, OVERWIEGHT | NUMBNESS AND TINGLING IN HANDS,FEET AND FACE. SWEETS AND SOFT DRINKS DIDN'T TASTE RIGHT FOR A WHILE(this will go away). LEG CRAMPS. SLEEPINESS. WIEGHT LOSS. MOST ALL SIDE EFFECTS GO AWAY ONCE YOUR DOSAGE GETS LEVELED OUT AND IS WELL WORTH IT! | TOPAMAX SAVED MY LIFE! I HARDLY GET ANYMORE MIGRAINES AND THE DEPRESSION IS GONE. I'VE LOST A TOTAL OF 80 POUNDS IN 5 YEARS OF BEING ON IT. THE SIDE EFFECTS ARE MINIMAL AND WELL WORTH THE OUTCOME. | F | 36 | 5 years | 5/13/2005 | 5 | back injury resulting in severe ner | at first, unbelievable detachment and spaciness, but very shortlived, occassional forgetfulness, however the pain relief trade-off and hyper sensitivity relief I have gotten is well worth it. Yes, appetite is down but that's a good thing. weight loss did occur, but ok...cool with that too...it helped to take pressure off of the back. | I was warned by my neurosurgeon to have a baseline eye examine prior to beginning topamax and I did and was not at risk ... I have 6 mo. prevention checks to assure he and myself that all is cpoasetic(?) w/ eye situation , altho I find when I am exceptionally fatigued , I do notice trailing and never did prior to taking this medicine. | F | 42 | 1 days | 7/11/2004 | 5 | seizures | weight loss, tingling in hands and feet, hair loss | Benefits of the drug far outweigh the side effects. The only drug I have taken so far to that has controlled my seizures. | F | 44 | 4 months | 7/13/2004 | 5 | Fibromyalgia-related chronic pain | I had pins and needles side effects sometimes, but if I took vitamin B-6, it went away. I also lost 40 lbs. over 6 months, which was great because I needed to lose it, plus a lot more. The only bad side effect I've noticed is that I've been unable to have an orgasm. Now I am ready to come off of this medicine, but only for that reason. Will discuss this with my doctor on next visit. | It greatly diminished my chronic pain from fibromyalgia. Also made my muscle cramps and spasms go away totally. All this on a somewhat | F | 45 | 10 months | 6/14/2004 | 5 | Bipolar disorder | Loss of appetite, memory and speech problems, loss of balance, slight anxiety | anyone who's lived through bipolar long enough knows: a little slurring of the speech is nothing compared to spending months in the hospital and putting yourselves and your loved ones through hell. I say, live through the bad effects, and start to realize there is a life worth living. this drug has worked for me. | F | 28 | 2 years | 4/14/2004 | 5 | Depression & Weight Loss | Cannot drink carbonated soft drinks. They taste awful. All I can really drink is water. Nothing else really tastes right. Dry mouth. For the first couple of weeks I felt kind of spaced out all of the time. This did go away. It has decreased my appetite. | I am currently taking 50mg of Topamax in the afternoon and 50mg at bedtime. I am also on 75mg of Effexor per day. | F | 29 | 1 months | 10/4/2004 | 5 | seizure control | hair loss, weight loss, sleep loss, moodiness | After losing 35 pounds (I'm 5'2, that's a lot of weight for a small girl) and thinking this was a miracle drug, my hair began falling out and I couldn't sleep through the night. If my day became overly stressful I felt insane. AND I was only on 25 mg of Topamax a day. I'm not even on this drug to keep from having seizures, I'm on it for maintanence...thus the reason for such a low dosage. Now I'm afraid if I go off it I'll gain the weight back and to be honest, I just don't know what it feels like be normal anymore. But, I keep losing weight, never have an appetite and am worried that all of my hair will fall out. I feel great other than the fact that I can't sleep half the time. I'm motivated and alert, but when I'm high, I'm really high and when I'm low, I'm so low I think there's no coming back up. | F | 25 | 1 years | 10/5/2004 | 5 | mood stabilization | I know my 'side effects' are what others may be RX'd for, but FYI... It suppresses my appetite (which is FINE with me) and I haven't experienced a migraine since I've taken it, which -- apparently because I am peri-menopausal -- was beginning to be a monthly occurrence. | I assumed that my mental fuzziness and occasional slurred speech was a function of aging and 15 years of hard drinking, but I now realize that the increase in the last year may have been due to the Topamax. | F | 50 | 1.5 years | 10/5/2004 | 5 | migraines | weightloss | F | 35 | 10 months | 5/5/2004 | 5 | Migraines | occasional tingling and cold in hands/feet; some hair loss, soda tastes gross...except fountain root beer=); 30 lb weight loss, lose my train of thought | I really am happy with this drug. Some of the side effects are quite annoying at times...medical professionals do call it "dopamax" but I have been on it for a year and my headaches keep getting better. I have lost weight (which wasn't a bad thing) gave up smoking (with almost NO withdrawl)...I just started HATING it after I started on the drug)...I think now that I have quit smoking the medicine will be able to help even more and my headaches will lessen even more! So I will take the occasional dopiness..I still function as a health care professional, and the tingley toes! I take 200 mg now, but I am hoping to be able to drop that down in the future. | F | 29 | 1 years | 3/24/2007 | 5 | migraines | tingling extremities, soda tastes flat, headache many mornings-manageable with otc meds, word-call issues, still feel stupid often, loss of apetite, | I actually feel a little calmer and more centered now after 12 weeks. Most importantly, though, at 100mg I feel like fine. Absolutely like myself. At 150mg I was completely out of control, apathetic, depressed and suicidal, where I had never had issues with depression before. | F | 38 | 12 weeks | 2/5/2007 | 5 | migraines | hand, feet and leg tingling that can be maddening at times, been on topamax for a month now at 75 mg (titrated up from 25 slowly, on 75 mg for 2 weeks now). Tingling hasnt stopped but am used to it now, but still rather annoying. Weight loss and appetite loss. Taste issue with certain foods and/or drinks -sweets dont taste the same and certain foods dont taste the same. Brain fog - simplest things I forget even though I'm staring right at it (i.e., thats a button but I cant remember what it is) - STRANGEST SIDE EFFECT is that I get a sensation for about an hour or so every now and again (just happend yesterday again) that my head, hands, jaw etc. feel HUGE - and my mouth feels teeny tiny. Example: I was talking to my hubby on my cell phone and all of a sudden the cell phone felt like it was the size of a building in my hand against my head but my head felt that size too. I cant describe it but let me tell you if you have panic disorder, it will flip you the hell out faster than | With all that said - my headaches have been reduced by about 75% so I'm going to say its a success for me. I've had migraines all my life but these past 2 years I've had a headache every single day and then I've been getting migraines more frequently on top of a constant headache. I'm 36 years old (soon to be 37), married, mother of 2 (eh..enough to give anyone a headache right?!). I have migrainal for the migraines but luckily I havent had to use it since being on the topamax. Weight loss has been great (as a woman, we all complain about our weight) about 8 lbs so far but I find that I'm forcing myself to eat because I dont want to drop 20 or 30 lbs (as my doc said that is the norm for most and I cant afford to lose that much), so I'm eating even though I"m not hungry. The biggest thing is the forgetfulness and that very strange "something is bigger than..." sensation - its enough to drive you insane - and I'm already bipolar as it is so anything that drives you nut | F | 36 | 1 months | 10/4/2006 | 5 | Migraines | Tingling toes, have a hard time concentrating and finding words, no weight loss here (unfortuately), and very large increase in how tired I am. | I started at a very low dose of Topamax and it was a miracle. I went from having 1-3 migraines in a day for weeks at a time to only a couple a year. At first, I had no side effects. However, as my dosage has had to be increased, (I am still only at 100 mg/day) I have started to notice a drastic change in how it effects me. However, I will take those side effects any day over another migraine. I have tried so many other medications and this is the ONLY thing that has worked. | F | 25 | 3 years | 10/4/2006 | 5 | Bipolar II, GAD,PAD | Slight occasional tingles - much like my Multiple Sclerosis tingles, slight "off" taste of certain foods - nothing bad enough at 50 mg a day to complain of at all. | I am also taking Remeron and Abilify, so I don't know exactly how much effect the Topomax is having on my mood disorder, but I do know that I haven't felt this good in years! I feel like I have my emotions back but they are great. The best part is that I have lost 7 lbs so far and have no appetite. I feel the best I have in a long while. | F | 43 | 3 weeks | 6/29/2007 | 5 | migraines | tingling in feet, legs, hands. "soap-box" effect, tiredness that went away after I got used to the medicine, dry-mouth, soda tastes funny. | my migraines have almost completely disappeared. and just about right away. I've had one since I started taking the medicine. I started with 25mg and have worked up to 100mg once a day at bed time. I sleep great. the tingling does not bother me at all. at first, I was on a "soap-box" as my husband calls it, but I've calmed down quite a bit now. I haven't lost an ounce. I have heard all these others losing weight on this drug, but I haven't lost one ounce on it and I've been on it almost 2 months and Not one ounce has left my body. I haven't lost my appetite very much at all. maybe, I have cut down on snacking and I still work out. I do get very thirsty. I guess I'm in that 1% of people that don't lose weight while they're on the drug. But the great thing is that it has relieved my migraine pain and that is why I take it in the first place. Life is great with topamax. | F | 46 | 2 months | 10/2/2006 | 5 | Bipolar Disorder | Weight Loss, Tingling in Extremeties, Dehydration | F | 16 | 21 months | 1/23/2003 | 5 | Migraines | Weight loss, rigning in ears, loss of taste for soda pops, some things do not smell right any more. At first was shakey but that has stoped now. I love it for the migraines though. | F | 28 | | 12/8/2004 | 5 | Pseudotumor Cerebri | Tingling in hands and feet, weight loss. | Took away my pain, pressure and is helping me to lose my excess weight. 100mg/day. | F | 23 | 2 months | 8/29/2002 |