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Eyesight problems on Topamax

Mon, 12/22/2008 - 15:29

I have been on Topamax for a few months and have developed "after-images". My eyes will hang on to an image and it will stay in my vision for a few seconds until it fades even though I'm looking somewhere else.

I also have trailing images from moving objects. I've also got awful double vision (from about 10+ feet away) but my neurologist seemed to doubt that it was true double vision as it was still present when he covered one of my eyes. It made me feel as though I was making it up!

Anyone else got this problem? I'm presuming it is the Topamax causing this as it is constant so I know its not a seizure.

I hope I have explained the "after-image" thing ok, not an easy thing to explain.

Comments

Re: Eyesight problems on Topamax

Submitted by debs-escape on Tue, 2008-12-23 - 02:13

yes,

I was put on 25 mg. years ago. was having blurred vision. thought my bifocals. didn't read carefully when ordered. when new presciption came in. saw it mentioned vision problems and report to doctor immediately. called and was taking off of it.

yes,

I was put on 25 mg. years ago. was having blurred vision. thought my bifocals. didn't read carefully when ordered. when new presciption came in. saw it mentioned vision problems and report to doctor immediately. called and was taking off of it.

Re: Eyesight problems on Topamax

Submitted by Chilli on Tue, 2008-12-23 - 14:48

Nothing actually wrong with my eyes, I've had them checked out by the Opthalmology dept at the hospital so can only presume its a brain thing caused by the Topamax. Guess I'm stuck with it as apart from this its a very good drug compared to others I've been on so I don't want to change meds again.

 I just wondered if anyone else got the same thing....always comforting if someone does!

Nothing actually wrong with my eyes, I've had them checked out by the Opthalmology dept at the hospital so can only presume its a brain thing caused by the Topamax. Guess I'm stuck with it as apart from this its a very good drug compared to others I've been on so I don't want to change meds again.

 I just wondered if anyone else got the same thing....always comforting if someone does!

Re: Eyesight problems on Topamax

Submitted by Eddie74 on Tue, 2009-10-06 - 19:28
  Chilli, I thought I was also "stuck" on my meds that were not even working on me; I tried all anticonvulsants (including Topamax) since 1980 causing many side effects where doctors didn't pay much attention to the adverse effects of the drugs they prescribed me. All doctors do is take care of your symptoms --- not what is causing the problem. Obviously, if there is no problem, such as epilepsy, where is the symptom? Doctors don't tell you of Complementary Alternative Medicine for any health condition, which have helped me the most, yet because they want you to remain ill and when I tested herbal remedies in 2 weeks I was surprised noticing my double and blurred vision disappear, physically energized, and without weakness or sleeplessness. That experience gave me a great spiritual well-being; it's a fact, a person does not only learn by mistakes but by experience. After learning of more treatment options for epilepsy, such as meditation, aromatherapy,  additional herbal and ayuveric supplements, neurofeedback, body-talk, yoga, magnet therapy, minerals and vitamins that prescription drugs lower in someone's system such as folate (folic acid) and gammaminobutric acid (GABA; the most important inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain), I eliminated and lowered prescriptions drugs, becoming more active and driving without a single seizure. Believe it or not, you can control your seizures using your brainwaves. Ask a psychologist or psychotherapist for any of these treatments that can help you and I recommend you read on alternative medicine.   

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