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Topamax hallucinations
Wed, 06/01/2005 - 23:49Topic: Medication Issues
My son was just changed from Depakote to Topamax and we are still stirating up to his max dosage; we are in week 4. I researched the med when prescribed and didn't like what I saw, but since side effects MIGHT not happen with him and he was so upset with the depakote (hair loss, he's 15), I thought we'd try.I didn't let him read the list of side effects so he would not be influenced.He is seeing lines connecting everything together; he describes it as a special effects, like in a movie or photo when the film is rushed together.Is this something normal for this med or to be reported to the DR?Will it go away?(can you tell I'm new here ? :-) thanks for your help......)
Comments
RE: RE: RE: Topamax (new to this help)
Submitted by maive on Wed, 2005-06-22 - 20:42
I got diagnosised with epilepsy about a week ago. In a month time I have had ten simple partial seizures. I am now on topomax and antivan. I feel like i am moving at about half my normal speed and even less than that most of the time. I hate that. Most of all I hate the depression. I was diagnosised by a miliatary doctor who hasn't explained anything to me about this illness.Just gave me the drugs and said take these. even when I have seizures he just ups the meds and sends me home. I have yet to have a MRI. I survived reyes syndrome when I was a kid. i feel very alone and am battling an intense depression. i am unsure of what kind of job I can get with temporal lobe epilepsy , what this means to my future, do i need to check in to disability, and so forth, I just feel very isolated. I feel like noone understand what i am going threw. half the time I am sad and half of it I am angry. i was a dance teacher and now I have now balance and my energy level is shot. I just feel like my life has taken a complete change . Any help or advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
Re: RE: RE: RE: Topamax (new to this help)
Submitted by artstudio on Mon, 2009-07-13 - 20:56
If you read the comment I posted above at the top of this page, I think you will find that the longer you are on this drug, that the side effects of the slowness do go away, at least it did for me. I now operate at a perfectly funtional speed. Sometimes I will have a slow day of course. But it is seldom!
RE: RE: Topamax hallucinations
Submitted by amyj on Mon, 2005-06-06 - 16:50
I am currently taking Topamax and have been for just over a year now. I have not had any "extreme" side effects, although I do find that my short term memory is more effected and that it takes longer to search for a word than it used to. I also have terrible time with itchy skin, not sure if that is from the seizures or the Topamax. I am near max dosage, but not a seizure control yet. We did try to adda 2nd drug about a month back .... Keppra, and I did not tolerate that well at all. Since Topamax had been doing well for me, we decided to stick with that and up dosages for the time being. I am sorry your son is having such a hard time on Topamax -- how hard that must be on all of you!Amy