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topamax and weight loss
Fri, 09/15/2006 - 21:59Comments
Re: topamax and weight loss
Submitted by wenlee25 on Tue, 2010-09-28 - 20:16
Re: No weight loss
Submitted by lisap on Tue, 2008-03-25 - 00:09
I have JME and migranes. My doctors changed my medication from phenobarbitol, which I took for 30 years to Topamax to prevent or help with the severity of the pain of migraines. It has been horrible transitioning from the old meds with the emotions association with the withdrawal process. When I started taking Topamax I lost 10 pounds, had a slight loss of appetite, but I have gained back 5 pounds and am completely normal with my eating habits and appetite. I found that the Topamax has made me forgetful and a slight personality change. Is the medication working for your migraines? Are you taking Topamax for weightloss as well? I have had to increase my dosage from 100mg to 125mg and the increase has not effected me the way it did when I started taking the medication intitally. I am telling you this because I would hate to see you put extra dosages of drugs in your body that you don't need for migraine control to lose weight that you might not lose. There are withdrawal processes with these drugs that need to be considered.
I have JME and migranes. My doctors changed my medication from phenobarbitol, which I took for 30 years to Topamax to prevent or help with the severity of the pain of migraines. It has been horrible transitioning from the old meds with the emotions association with the withdrawal process. When I started taking Topamax I lost 10 pounds, had a slight loss of appetite, but I have gained back 5 pounds and am completely normal with my eating habits and appetite. I found that the Topamax has made me forgetful and a slight personality change. Is the medication working for your migraines? Are you taking Topamax for weightloss as well? I have had to increase my dosage from 100mg to 125mg and the increase has not effected me the way it did when I started taking the medication intitally. I am telling you this because I would hate to see you put extra dosages of drugs in your body that you don't need for migraine control to lose weight that you might not lose. There are withdrawal processes with these drugs that need to be considered.
Re: topamax and weight loss
Submitted by bonnieleigh on Mon, 2010-02-15 - 16:52
Just wanted to make a comment in regards to Topamax and weight loss, I myself suffer from Cluster headaches, (my neuro calls them suicide headaches) and was going to try the Topomax to stop the Cluster cycle. However, I had already at that point been on Prednisone, Verapamil and of course my life safer Maxalt, with a horrible variety of side effects such as weight gain, irratibility, sleepy, muddle head, and horrible acid reflux. My neuro was a little concerned about how I might react to another med and especially with the side effects he told me about, like forgetting a word that you knew but couldn't for the life of yourself remember, stuttering, hair loss and of course weight loss...which wouldn't have been so bad without all the other crap that went along with it. I'm thinking a gym wouldn't be so bad after all the stories I've heard on here!!! I'm in remission thanks to steroid injections in the back of my head, base of my skull, with no ill effects other than half of my head frozen for 5 hrs. I am so glad I read this, as I won't stay in remission forever and like to have all the info I can.
Thanks to everyone!
Just wanted to make a comment in regards to Topamax and weight loss, I myself suffer from Cluster headaches, (my neuro calls them suicide headaches) and was going to try the Topomax to stop the Cluster cycle. However, I had already at that point been on Prednisone, Verapamil and of course my life safer Maxalt, with a horrible variety of side effects such as weight gain, irratibility, sleepy, muddle head, and horrible acid reflux. My neuro was a little concerned about how I might react to another med and especially with the side effects he told me about, like forgetting a word that you knew but couldn't for the life of yourself remember, stuttering, hair loss and of course weight loss...which wouldn't have been so bad without all the other crap that went along with it. I'm thinking a gym wouldn't be so bad after all the stories I've heard on here!!! I'm in remission thanks to steroid injections in the back of my head, base of my skull, with no ill effects other than half of my head frozen for 5 hrs. I am so glad I read this, as I won't stay in remission forever and like to have all the info I can.
Thanks to everyone!