Topamax for weight control
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It is good news your OCD is under control. If you are using Topamax alone for weight loss, it may not give you the desired results. It works to reduce appetite, and your craving for munching might be reducing its effect. You need to make some healthy choices. Quit smoking pot; it will help you lose weight at a much faster pace.
You could consult a weight trainer and chalk out an exercise regimen to help control weight. A good dietician should be able to come up with a diet plan based on your body metabolism and stature o help you reduce weight.
Please think carefully before resorting to medication as the way to reduce weight. In case you continue to take this medication, please let your doctor know about glaucoma.
Please let me know if there is any thing else and keep me posted.
I have been off Topamax for approx. 8 months and was wondering if I began to take Topamax again would it help with weight loss or once it has leveled off it will no longer aid in weight loss? I currently take Maxalt for headaches only as needed so the Topamax was only used as an anti-seizure med. Please let me know so that I can discuss this with my neurologist about adding Topamax back into my daily routine. Thank you, any help you could give would be wonderful.
I started taking it in conjunction w/my Gabapentin, in the hopes that I could reduce the amount of Gabapentin I was taking as it was causing me weight gain. The Topamax did work well to control my nerve pain, but about 4-5 months in, my hair started falling out! I researched this & was shocked at the number of ppl this had happened to! And sadly, it appears to be permanent, even after getting off of Topamax. My hair stopped falling out, but what I lost has never grown back.
Our son had been recently diagnosed as bipolar and has been given depakote to control mood swings. He has an ongoing weight problem and learning of the potential weight gain side-effect has angered him tremendously. Also the thought of weight gain is a trigger to his anger generally.
What other alternatives are there to depakote that does not tend to promote weight gain? or, better yet, promotes weight loss?
If age matters, he is now 21.
I only noticed a small drop in weight loss, because I was already at a desired weight to begin with and I try not to lose weight as for me, losing weight would be unhealthy. If I find myself losing weight, I try to counteract it... so, for me, the weight loss was minima (5 to 10 pounds at the most).
But, I have had friends who have lost quite a bit of weight on topamax. It usually takes about three months before full results are seen.
I would ask for an alternative medicine. Topamax causes hair loss which I have experienced first hand. I found out that that is one of the main side effects and wish I hadn't taken it. I would look on the internet for medications that treat migraines and look at all of the side effects. I have found I have to be proactive and do my research and ask the doctor about a specific medication.
I was just prescribed the drug for frequent migrains and was wondering why and how it causes weight loss? Does it decrease your ap?
I take the birth control pill Minastrin 24 Fe and for about a month now I have been taking Topamax as a mood stabilizer. I recently had unprotected sex and I read that Topamax may interfere with oral contraceptives. If I still take my birth control pill at the same time everyday, should I be protected from pregnancy?
Not sure how it reacts with birth control, but Cymbalta as an anti-depressant has a side effect of weight loss. I take that, Topamax, and lamictal and lost about 50 pounds over the course of 4-5 months.
My experience about 15 years ago with Effexor was the zaps and diarrhea with each meal, so maybe that would be good for weight loss, too- lol :)
Good luck.
I definitely lost weight and I am little to begin with. Recently I went off of Topamax and have gained weight back for sure :( So the weight loss is one of the better side effects LOL. The biggest side effect for me was the hands and feet (and sometimes lips) tingling. Not all the time but especially in the beginning. Numbness too. They weren't bothersome enough for me to stop taking it, though.
I hope it works for you.
I had periorbital migraines and was placed on Topamax, technically an anti-seizure but also great for migraine/headache control and mood stabilization in bipolar disorder. That for a while was the only thing that worked for me. It can have a sedative and appetite suppressant effect. I was also shortly on a low dose of Elavil for migraines. Carefull with that one, take only the amount prescribed.
Has anybody had abnormal menstrual cycle while taking tompirimate (topamax) I am very worried that there may be something else wrong with me. Sorry to be graphic but I've had a very lightened flow, with dark brown blood and the beginning and the end. I read somewhere that depression can do this to your period and as depression is one of the side effects of this drug is it possible that this is a casual link? Or does this sound more like implantation spotting to you?
org for more information or just google topamax. My Way Out is mostly for drinkers because topa has shown to be very helpful in that area. The worst side effect for me on topa was feeling extremely irritable. I didn't want to be a mean mom, so I had to go off it. The only other solution for me would be to combine topa with wellbutrin or prozac or something else to curb the anger side effect.
I was on Amitriptyline-150mg and Topamax 100mg for at least a year for headaches. Within the last three months I was put on Lexapro 10mg and Allerx PE also for my headaches. My headaches are beginning to become under control with steroid injections and I am about to have sinus surgery. My concern is that in the past year I have gained 35lbs. I am a very active person who works out and also watches what I eat. I don't know what to do.
ve been taking Topamax for a month now to try to control post TBI migraine headaches; courtesy of a terrorist explosion(rocket attack) in Iraq--April 2008. I get awful headaches....at first 1-3 migraines per day (mine would only last an hour or two), but they would be really bad sometimes. If I was lucky, I would pass out from the pain...but mostly I'd just get nauseus, dizzy and left praying to God I'd die (I know that just sounds completely awful now!!
I was on Topamax for a while and I did lose weight. I have not lost weight on anything else, and since they took me off I have gained like 30 lbs over just a few years. I had to go off of Topamax and put on another med because I was high as a kite on it. Almost hallucinating - looking at the ground and seeing what looked like a sinking quicksand hole, etc. And the side effects did not go away over a couple months of trying so I had to go on something else.
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