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| 3 | migraine | the reason i have been prescribed this is because two years back i have been getting really bad headaches, i could clear a box of panadol, panadine etc in a week, and obviously they all dont help. so my neurologist suggested these. this year during the first semester i have been getting daily headaches. after taking topamax the headaches decreases substantially, however theres still a few that manage to sneak in. and about that tingling the in the feet. for a moment i thought i got athlete's foot or tinea, so everyone, thanks for the confirmation that i havent gone mad! i have lost weight, i just dont feel like eating. i can survive a day with a regular long black and a piece of dark choc at the start of the day. getting up in the morning is hell!. and memory loss is hell. ive asked a few doctors about this they all seem to deny it/ saying the dose im on is too small to cause any damage. luckily i didnt bring up about a few websites (including druginfo) saying how it can cause been dep | F | 20 | 1 months 50mg 2X day | 8/16/2010 | 3 | migraines | The 1st and best thing about the medications is that within 5 days I walked away from smoking , I told my husband that I just didn't want it anymore. My migraine eased off after a week and no dizziness. I do feel anxious sometimes and have trouble sleeping. I woke up one night and had no idea where I was, I was sitting straight up in my bed. I am very constipated and it is driving me crazy. I am very moody, my daughter told me to go get a pack of cigarettes. I can eat or do without, it really doesn't matter to me. A lot of things I ate or drank do not taste good to me anymore. | F | 36 | 1 months 25 1X day | 12/28/2014 | 2 | Migraine | Blurry vision, horrible metallic taste in mouth, slight rash on forearms after swimming in sunny area, upset stomach- constipation for 6 days then diarrea, feel lousy,did relieve migraine but not worth it | F | 67 | 1 months 100mg | 6/13/2014 | 2 | Extreme Migraines | This has been the worst month of my life. I have never felt so out of touch with my life. The first night I took this drug, I felt like another person. I can't think clearly. I can't focus on anything and this seriously causes major problems with daily life. It has also made me experience extreme nausea and stomach upset. I use to love soft drinks, however that has since changed. They taste horrible now. I have tried Depakote ER, Amitriptyline, Maxalt, and Stadol Inhaler. I am just beyond words with this process. I just don't think I will be able to continue this course of treatment for much longer. | F | 29 | 1 months 50 MG 2X day | 2/25/2010 | 2 | Severe Migraines | Diarrhea, abdominal pain, hair loss, insomnia, groggy | At first it was wonderful. Topamax DID take away my migraines but the side effects were too much to handle. My hair began really falling out (I already have Grave's disease which makes my hair fall out so this was awful!) and the diarrhea kicked in about week three and it was constant! The abdominal pain was awful. I have horrible insomnia as it is and I was just starting to get THAT under control when I started Topamax and then suddenly I was up two and three times a night again. I experienced a loss of energy during the day as well. | F | 41 | 1 months 75 mg 1X day | 5/19/2010 | 2 | Depression, bulimia | Initially: tingling/numbness in hands and feet, metallic taste in mouth, sleepiness More gradually: memory issues (couldn't recall simple words like "desk"), flu-like symptoms | I stopped taking this med because I felt run-down and feverish while on it. Also, it lives up to its reputation of "Dopamax." It made me feel really stupid! I wouldn't recommend it. | F | 22 | 1 months 50 mg 2X day | 10/19/2012 | 1 | Concussion | Dizziness, tiredness, confusion, hands and feet tingling (all these might be just concussion symptoms). The medicine did not get rid if my headaches at all and I eventually stopped taking it. | F | 15 | 1 months 30 MG | 9/6/2012 | 1 | Migraines | Numbness and tingling in FACE as well as hands and feet, audio hallucinations as in hearing voices and they told me to jump off my balcony..so i guess that would be suicidal ideation? Was not warned about half the side effects and the entire time i had a "hangover headache". I lost maybe 2 lbs and I fell asleep almost immediately after taking it, but not normal sleep more like blacking out and I have 2 little kids so j weaned myself off after these horrific experiences. Since then I have missed my period entirely and nope not pregnant, took 2 HPT and one beta hcg blood test all negative but still no period! | F | 28 | 1 months 50 mg | 7/22/2012 | 1 | Migraines | tingling and numbness in arms, hands, legs, and feet. Nasty, indescribable taste in mouth. Paranoia and constant thoughts of bugs crawling on me. Major hair loss. Mood swings, Crying at the drop of a dime, Irritability | When I began taking this medication I noticed that the migraines stopped and I was so excited. But soon after all the side effects started popping up one by one. At first I thought nothing of it and really didn't notice. But once I became paranoid and felt the "bugs" crawling on me all the time I started wondering if I was insane. So I made an appointment with my primary care doctor immediately. He actually laughed at me a little and said "Oh, you just aren't taking enough." So he requested that I begin taking 100mg daily to "stabilize" my moods. And he also told me that hair loss was NOT a side effect of this drug. I was dumbfounded when I left the office. I immediately went home and googled it. That is when I found this website and I was so excited to see all these posts and find that I wasn't nuts! Thank you all so much! I quit taking the medication last night and just wrote an enormous letter to my doctors office! | F | 28 | 1 months 50mg 1X day | 8/5/2010 | 1 | anxiety | Weight gain, increased appetite, headaches, anxiety, loss of words, memory loss | Everything that this drug is proclaimed to help with it did the exact opposite! Did nothing for my anxiety! I gained weight and had the worst headaches! | F | 33 | 1 months 75mg 1X day | 5/12/2011 | 1 | Migraines | My side effects while taking this drug were memory loss and an inability to think clearly or focus on anything. Examples: I found it very difficult to do simple check writing. My husband said my verbal responses were very slow. I momentarily forgot my middle name! How sad is that? I also felt like I had a small electrical current running through my body...the tingling I guess. Also my eyes hurt (to the point of having a doctor examine them), extreme lethargy, sleeplessness and an overall feeling of not being well. | The one side effect I had hoped for (weight loss) never happened and I still had migraines. The good thing about Topamax was that it made me feel so bad that when I quick taking it I was happy to just have my migraines. I would not recommend this drug for anyone. | F | 56 | 1 months | 7/6/2006 | 1 | seizures | Major Major depression!!! I just wanted to die. All I would do is sit in the window and look out and cry. I was mean to my family and did not want to do a thing. | Once I was off of it for a few days my depression subsided, Thank God! I couldn't take that anymore. | F | 47 | 1 months | 12/18/2007 | 1 | migranes & mood swings | numbness in hands & feet, changed taste of things | Initially I noticed that I could not drink anything carbonated because it tasted like poison. Then I could not feel my hands or feet for 20 minutes at a time. I d/c'd this medication. | F | 27 | 1 months | 12/2/2007 | 1 | Migranes | Confusion, paranoia, insomnia, panic attacks, dizzyness, tingling that was unbearable, innability to complete the most simple task (probably would have been fired from my job had I stayed on Topamax). | It was absolutely horrible. My doctor told me that the side effects I was experiencing were not a result of the medication, but they dissapeared as soon as I discontinued it. I actually thought I had had a mini stroke I was so disoriented. It was hell. | M | 26 | 1 months | 1/19/2005 | 1 | Bipolar Disorder/Weight Loss | I was extremely agitated and couldn't sleep after one week, so I took it in the mornings. That was also a mistake, because I felt every side effect more profoundly, and most of them were psychiatric. I was so irritated that I was almost homicidal. I was screaming and thought about committing myself. Seriously, too. I only added this med because I thought I'd lose some Weight induced by another med , and believed another mood stabilizer at a low dose couldn't hurt. Wrong. I won't say stay away, because it's beneficial for some, but if irritation starts to come on, it may become 100 times worse rapidly, so be careful! | F | 46 | 1 months 50 | 4/8/2014 | 1 | Headaches/seizures | Nerve damage, eye damage, weakness,liver problems,toxic to my body would not recommend this drug to anyone! | F | 48 | 1 months | 8/2/2009 | 1 | Migraines | Okay at 25mg but once titrated to 50 mg side effects were immediate and Intense- I had excessive thirst even drinking 64 or more ouncesof water- My skin was itchy, I had no appetite, tingling in hands /feet very intense. | I was so irritable as soon as I was at 50 mg - all side effects began and were moderate to intense at 50 mg.EVERYTHING irritated me to the point I would fly off the handle at the littlest thing- i was alsovery tearful. Not themedicine for me. | F | 48 | 1 months 50mg 1X day | 3/25/2015 | 1 | migraine headaches | Weight loss, insomnia, brain fog, blurred vision, depression, agitated, dizziness, constantly tierd and still had mild headaches. | The side effects where the worst of any I have ever endeared with any medication. I could not get off this fast enough; an with having to taper being a slow process seemed like forever. Congrats to all that have success with this medication. | F | 44 | 1 months 100 mg | 2/17/2015 | 1 | Epilepsy | Psychosis!!! Very rare but possible reaction to this medication. I would take seizures over this anytime! | F | 22 | 1 months 100 mg | 4/9/2015 | 1 | Migrains due to head injury | Extreme loss of short term memory(forgot where I was), confusion, panic attacks (once a day), depression, paranoid | No weight loss, didn't get rid of my headaches, I actually forgot when my period was, I was walking home from class about two blocks when I forgot what day it was and where I was going. No one warned me about the side effects so I thought that my head injury was causing them, I thought I was going crazy. It cleared up within a week of slimming down my medicine. I will never take it again. I take Gabapentin now, and no head aches. | F | 21 | 1 months | 1/25/2008 |