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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR TOPAMAX | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | migraine | WORD FINDING DIFFICULTIES, tingling in extremities, excessive thirst, focal seizure (with forgotten dose!!!!!), loss of motivation, no more desire to purge! | When you are on drug cocktails for migraine and anxiety it is hard to say whethere it is the drug alone or the combination that causes the problem. On 50mg per day I was experiencing migraines 2-3x week. SCARY thing- I missed a day or two of DOPaMax and had a focal seizure. That's right folks, missing a dose or weaning too quickly can induce seizures! The answer was to INCREASE MY DOSE. Titrated rather quickly up to 200 mg in 20 days. Still getting migraines, although they are reduced in intensity and duration. Weight loss? not that I can see...I am always thirsty.....I was a bulimic (as an aside) but I must say since starting this drug I have NO desire to purge...so i will stick with it for my health.... | M | 34 | 4 months | 3/5/2008 | 3 | Migraines | Skin itching at first, some tingling that has decreased over time, trouble finding words, takes 5 minutes for brain to get into concentration mode, takes longer getting ready in morning. These side effects would be extremely worse if I didn't just take the medication at night. I highly recommend only taking this medicine right before you go to sleep. This greatly minimizes the brain slowing effects. | Topomax has not helped with my migraines, but I have found it to be very helpful on other things. I used to have a couple of alcoholic beverages each night and now only have a couple a week, I lost the 10 pounds I have been wanting to lose for the past several years in 4 monthts without even trying because of Topomax relieving my crazy food cravings, and it has helped me have a calmer/more content demeanor about me accorinding to my husband and family. So I am going to continue taking topomax as a supplement to my bipolar medication. I found the maximum benefits for this purpose with the least side effects to be at 75mg. I highly recommend only taking this medicine right before you go to sleep. This greatly minimizes the brain slowing effects. | F | 31 | 4 months | 1/14/2010 | 2 | Mood Stablizer / Weight Control | Severe near-sightedness, incontinence, tingly-ness, loss for words, soda tasted flat. | I felt blind for the last 3 months and had 2 massive bathroom accidents after going to the max dose (200mg) - minor ones at smaller doses. Those two made me stop taking it. Milder effects: tingling in various body parts, felt dumb at times, Diet Dr. Pepper tasted flat. Didn't get the weight loss as most people did. | F | 32 | 4 months | 2/26/2008 | 2 | Biploar & Migraines | Tingling (pins and needles) in extremities (especially feet). Very Lethargic and listless. ACNE. | Dr. started me at 25mg/week increasing 25mg each week final 150mg. The first two months were VERY difficult. I could barely stay awake. *note - I still had 3 migraines in this time period* I decided to wait until I was at target dosage before I judged. I've been at 150mg for over two months. I used to get 1 migraine/week. Now I get approx 2/month. I am still more tired then normal, have the "tingles", and folks...has this come up for anyone....serious acne??? I'm in my late 20's and never had acne. I am recently engaged and was mistaken for a teenager looking for a prom dress at a bridal shop! YIKES! Long story short...NOT a fan! | F | 29 | 4 months | 8/24/2007 | 2 | Bipolar 1 | Loss of words, "Dopamax" effects, couldn't complete thoughts or sentences. Was having a very difficult time staying focused at work and doing my job. | Doctor prescribed this to help with the weight gain side effects from Depakote. She was hoping to eventually wein me off the Depakote and only take the Topamax. We tried several dosage amounts, increasing, decreasing, etc., but nothing seemed to calm the side effects. I decided I needed to keep my job more than lose weight and stopped taking it. Am only on Depakote now. | F | 46 | 4 months | 1/4/2007 | 2 | RSD | Lots of hair loss. | I would of continued taking topamax but my hair was falling out big time. It took a good 4 months after discontinuing it for my hair to stop falling out. | F | 36 | 4 months | 10/14/2005 | 2 | Bipolar II | Tingling feet. Taste dulled. Strange food cravings. BRAIN FOG! (and the famous topamax weight loss and appetite suppression... didn't happen for me) | I was put on this drug to try to counter-act the weight gain caused by seroquel. Overall, my BPDII has been very well controlled while on topamax, but that may likely be due to the seroquel and 100mg of lamictal I take, rather than the topamax. On topamax I've noticed tingling feet, which is annoying, and altered taste, such that I am always spicing food much more than I used to do to try to make it taste less bland. I also notice an occasional craving for carbonated beverages that I never had before. I did not experience any weight loss or appetite suppression on this drug whatsoever. The biggest downside of topamax was the brain fog issue; I am a scientist, and topamax made me so stupid during the day I couldn't even add two two-digit numbers properly. I would forget the names of people I've known for years, but haven't seen for several months. It was awful. I finally stopped taking the daytime dose, and will stop taking the nighttime dose soon, since I don't see much point in taking a drug that isn't doing anything for me but giving me horrible side effects. The only good thing I can say about it is that it is easy to get off of, which is a first for me as far as psych meds go! | F | 44 | 4 months 100 mg 2X day | 5/19/2011 | 2 | migraines | Metallic taste, vision disturbances, nausia, extreme tiredness, irritable, angry, weight loss. I was on Topiramate. At first, I only had vision disturbances, nausia, lack of appetite, and weight loss. However, after taking it for a few months, I started to get extremely irritated, angry, and depressed. I went off of it cold turkey and was actually suicidal for several weeks and I gained 5 lbs back. I am so much better now.....I do still get a migraine occassionally, but going through that hell wasn't worth it! | F | 40 | 4 months 50 mg 2xd | 11/28/2011 | 2 | nerve pain due to spinal cord injur | Strangely beer and soda tasted absolutley flat. But that is no big deal. I seemed to lose about 30 IQ points on this drug. I could only think one linear thought at a time, no complexity. I could never think of any puns or other word play and I was always forgetting what I was about to say. I also experienced fatigue. | I did not notice any improvement in nerve pain. All I noticed was that I was not only a woman in a wheelchair but with this drug I was also stupid and rather boreing too. My husband said he missed me and my personality when I was on this drug. | F | 34 | 4 months | 3/24/2006 | 1 | Chronic Migraine | Tingling, short-term memory loss, mood swings, anxiety, depression, rage, suicidal thoughts, I have a history of major depression and my neurologist did not inform me this medication was linked to anxiety, depression, irritability and suicidal thoughts. I thought to look after my boss mentioned how different I have been the last four months. This medication is effecting my family life, work and friendships. If you have a history of depression please proceed with caution before taking this medication. | The medication did successfully treat my migraine symptoms. I was excited to find something that could prevent the horrible pain but I am now suffering emotionally rather than physically and it is not an equal trade-off. | F | 36 | 4 months 50 MG 2X day | 2/22/2013 | 1 | Migraines | Completely exhausted all the time, trouble concentrating and finding the right words, weight loss, tingling in hands, food did mot tast the same especially carbonated drinks. Worst drug ever! Its called Dopemax for a reason! I felt like I took a stupid pill! Had to wean myself off of it! Could not get off it fast enough! Did not feel like myself for the entire 4 months. Was still getting migraines just not as many. Sometimes the side effects are worse than the actual problem. | F | 30 | 4 months 80 mg | 9/27/2012 | 1 | migraines | tingling/twitching of face, eyelids, arms, and legs. inability to eat. extreme weight loss. dizziness. extreme anger. inability to remember ANYTHING. | when i started taking topamax, it was great. it has been the only drug that has helped my migraines at all. sadly, the side effects slowly crept in a couple weeks after starting topamax. i was unable to eat a whole mcdonalds cheeseburger (which was very unusual for me). i started out weighing 105 when i started topamax, and after a couple months i was down to 90 pounds, and still loosing weight. i lashed out at everyone, for no reason. i couldn't remember anything from my schooling (at the time i was a senior in high school). oh, and i couldn't stand up without feeling like i was falling off the earth. needless to say, i stopped taking this drug, and i am now searching for something else.. :( | F | 20 | 4 months 75mg 1X day | 4/6/2011 | 1 | hemiplegic migraines | tingling in fingers, face, and inside my body, yes i know it sounds weird. ringing in my ear. lack of taste. pain in my eye. Visualy disturbances including, seeing things in slow motion, or a trail behind it specifically in lightly lit rooms. My brain would copy objects, for example If i looked in a fun mirror that distorts things a certain way... when i looked away i would see everything else like the mirror was reflecting for just a few seconds, but could repeat this with clear objects w/ texture, and mirrors. I also saw a blue tracer behind any object in lightly lit rooms. sleepy. being depressed, and moody. Not being able to taste food, and lost alot of weight. Also trouble thinking and concentrating. Felt like a zombie. A ton of hair loss. they thought some of the visual things were caused by my very complicated migraine, but i am very sensitive with meds and particularly to this one. it did more harm than good. I still have tracers and trails behind things, but it's not as intens | Everyone reacts to it differently. I think that it really does help some people. I will never take it again, and if you take it and finds it does more harm than good than stop taking it right away. | M | 19 | 4 months 100 mg 4X day | 2/23/2010 | 1 | Migraines. | Pins and needles,Fatigue,severe Depression,Loss of concentration,Memory loss,Trouble with comprehension,words didn't come to me as quickly,scrambled words,eye pressure/soreness. | I’ve been off Topamax for about a year now, and was only on it for about four months. I would have to say that the four months I was on Topamax, was probably the worst four months I have ever experienced in my life. When I first started the medication I was only on 50mg, and besides the slight tingling I experienced, everything was well. When I got up to about 150, I couldn’t concentrate at all, I physically and mentally felt ‘slower’ My words were scrambling up, and I couldn’t even carry a decent conversation because of it, my grades were dropping, and I felt ‘spacey’ all the time, I was constantly tired, and fell in a deep state of depression (and If you know me at all, im a very cheery and optimistic person) I felt like I lost touch with reality. None of my friends really wanted to hang out with me because I was so ‘out of it’. The only good thing about this medicine was not getting migraines. I wouldn’t recommend Topamax. | F | 17 | 4 months | 3/20/2007 | 1 | chronic bad migraines | MORE headaches! | Topamax is supposed to help migrains AND cause weight loss - what could be better? However, I tried it TWICE, and both times it made me much sicker than I already was. | F | 52 | 4 months | 11/29/2006 | 1 | migraine | diarhea, fatigue, upset stomach, felt sick most of the time. | Had 3 weeks after starting that were migraine free. Thought I had found the cure. starting with 4th week pattern of almost daily pain returned. Increased doses did nothing. Side effects became so problematic that I had to stop taking it. | M | 34 | 4 months | 10/21/2004 | 1 | Weight Loss | memory loss, depression, irritability, confusion, headache, tingling in hands and feet, blurry vision, constant thirst, taste change, constipation, bladder infection, extreme fatigue | I was on 100mg Topamax for weight loss for 4 months before asking my physician to take me off of it. By this time I was crying daily (depression), had a severe bladder infection, as well as being fed up with all of the other side effects. Also - disables contraceptives, and I have a latex allergy. That didn't help with the irritability. | F | 26 | 4 months | 4/28/2007 | 1 | seizures | where do i start, basically every side effect the drugs website has. Anxiety, panic attacks, was hearing voices in my head, couldnt relax at all, very jumpy even paranoid, depression like i've never felt before even thought of suicide | i dont recommend this drug to anybody, i was on 200mg a day, and it basically drove me crazy for the 4 months or so i was on it, i'm off it now and feel like a completely different person, went back to tegretol, i still have a sense of anxiety from time to time but i'm seeing my doctor about that | M | 22 | 4 months | 5/22/2007 | 1 | Migraines | Unconsciousness, lack of verbal skills, complete inability to walk (any motor skills), tingling in extremities. Accelerated vision loss (existing condition). | This medication was very scary to take. I would be fine one minute and then unable to speak or move the next. At that point I would go completely unconscious for hours at a time. Please be very careful when considering this drug and only use it as a last resort. Liver and kidney function must also be very closely monitored. | F | 26 | 4 months | 2/7/2007 | 1 | Weight loss due to Lithium | Tingling in face and feet, weight loss, abnormal lower eyelid movement, abnormal hair texture, excess hair growth, acne. | Topamax worked for weight loss but the side effects were not worth it. I grew more hair everywhere and it ruined my beautiful eyelashes(tmax causes my eyelashes to grow and caused them to be 2 different colors now). I had to have laser hair removal on my entire face. Needless to say, I was one of the rare cases. Lose weight the natural way is my advice. | F | 24 | 4 months | 9/19/2003 |