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Feeling a bit like Alice in Wonderland on Topamax!

Thu, 04/03/2008 - 23:28
Hi there, I have been taking Topamax now for around 8 months. Every few days I experience severe burning throughout my head, and sometimes the room even seems to move in waves, and I know this probably sounds completely nuts!...but objects & people seem to shrink in size..as though from 'Alice in Wonderland' at first it was a little funny, but now it is frightening. I have told my neurologist of my concerns, and he has told me to hang in there. I have started taking different vitamins and changing my diet etc, and this has helped a lot, but unfortunately these symptoms come back. Has anyone else experienced these symptoms on Topamax?? Cheers! Summer :)

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Its Topiramate get off it. I

Submitted by Perripump on Sat, 2020-01-11 - 16:43
Its Topiramate get off it. I took it one day and felt depression at its highest form and Life is happy for me. I couldn't tell you where it pulled it from. This is a dangerous drug. I felt drunk, foggy vision, the rooms were wavy, and it made have a headache instead I'd preventing my migraine.

Re: Feeling a bit like Alice in Wonderland on Topamax!

Submitted by GottaBelieve on Fri, 2008-04-04 - 10:59

So Sorry to hear about your experience. I had similar reactions but a little more severe. I found out that I was allergic to topamax. Check with your Neuro to see if that could be a possibility. It was in my case. I hope you feel better. My prayers are with you!

We can get through this together.

Nina :)

So Sorry to hear about your experience. I had similar reactions but a little more severe. I found out that I was allergic to topamax. Check with your Neuro to see if that could be a possibility. It was in my case. I hope you feel better. My prayers are with you!

We can get through this together.

Nina :)

Re: Feeling a bit like Alice in Wonderland on Topamax!

Submitted by whitetigrus on Fri, 2008-04-04 - 17:26
Hello, I've been on Topamax for a while now and that's one thing that I haven't experienced!  I'm going to have to agree with Nina that it might be an allergic reaction!  As far as hanging in there goes, ask your doctor if he/she would want to hang in there if they had these feelings?  I truely can't believe the gull of some of these doctors that I read about, it just blows my mind, well what I have left!  All meds affect people differently but having to "size things up or down" is not normal!  8 months is a long time to have to go through something like this, if I were you I would definitely look into a new Epileptologist!

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