topamax in infants

When I took topamax I had the same side effect, it gets worse in the winter with the cold weather. What I found out is that topamax depletes the potassium in your body, If you like bananas eat one a day and if you are like me you can get an otc potassium you just need 1-2 a day and I would take them depending on how my hands and feet felt. It is better to just eat a banana unstead of taking supplements but otc potassium is inexpensive.

I did experience a little joint pain in the elbows and wrists when I jumped to a higher dose. The pins and needle sensations came stronger and more often as well. In my feet it felt like bee stings, ouch. I did some digging online and found in the clinical trails potassium helped with the tingling so I tried that. I started out by just trying to add potassium rich foods to my diet and saw a difference on those days.

Honestly, in my opinion, babies are so wrapped up in this new world, all the new things going in for them, that a little cold (virus) hardly slows them down. it could be your baby is behind because she doesn't feel well all the time, and THAT is holding her back. Maybe not, but in either case I would push for them to figure it out. Chalking it all down to a virus is a lazy, sorry excuse. My point is, YOU DO know your child more than anyone.

I feel Gerd and milk allergy are grossly overdiagnosed in infants. Lactose overload has been diagnosed in breast-fed infants now - and I believe it is also found in babies.

Might want to consider checking into kidney stones...Topamax is known to cause a person to form them. I take Topamax for seizures and monitor possible side effects. Hope you get relief and find out soon. Please let us know what you are diagnosed.

I was on Topamaz 200mg a day for headaches related to chiari but I did not have weakness, I had tingaling in my hands and feet but no weakness from the topamax and I took it for 3 years. I would call your doctor cause it may not be coming from the med. But since you had surgery maybe your body maybe reacting to it? I sure wouldnt let that go. As for the vertigo the topamax seemed to help it some but it didnt help the balance. Now im on 125mg of zonigran.

[16] A study by Harvard recommends topiramate as an effective treatment in the prevention of Periventricular leukomalacia in preterm infants after an hypoxic-ischemic injury.[17] In May 2006 the U.S. National Institutes of Health web site clinicaltrials.gov listed several studies sponsored by Ortho-McNeil which propose to examine the use of topiramate on migraine, cluster,[18] and severe headaches within various demographics.

My son, who is 7 months old, was recently diagnosed with Chiari Malformation. The diagnosis was confirmed on Mar 10, 2014 and he was also diagnosed with hydrocephalus. Anyone have this happen with an infant? I'm trying to figure out what the next steps are in the event of an increase in fluid and pressure. He also is having to see a pediatric eye doctor to check the eye pressure in his eyes.

Hi I just noticed 3-4 bumps in the back of my head. I have an avm in my brain and I am taking topamax 12.5 since past August. And since then I been noticing pimples on my face, all over my body and too much on my head. Unluckily every time I go see my doc she said that she can't see any in my head so it was never treated. So I don't know what to do? Anybody ? And now these bumps, I hope they are not related to my avm or a side effect of my medicine. ( I am 40 years old) .

It seems to me that every neuro in the us really goes to topamax first for migraines, this concerns me. I went through 2 neuros who just kept upping and upping my topamax dosage w/o ever even talking about another preventative drug when the topamax didn't work. Finally, I got in with a headache specialist at a large neurology center and they put me on a 12 day run of frova, gave me a prescription for muscle relaxers and fiorcet, and an imitrex shot on the spot.

I am currently on Depakote and just last week put on Topamax for a 59pd weight gain in eight months. I am miserable and looking for any encouragement I can get. I can't find anything that says I will or won't loss weight by adding this Topamax even thought my doctor said it should curve my appetite I'm willing to try anything. I don't have any midnight binges and use portion control when I eat breakfast and dinner. I don't snack but I'm not real good at exercising.

my daughter is 3 months old ,she has been passing mucus in stools for about 4 weeks now and some times there are spots of blood in the mucus ,I took her to the doc but not found the cause yet

I did order Topomax over the internet, (no 'script) because I try EVERYTHING to treat my Cervical Dystonia/ST. I really thought it was some zero (or close) harm trial and a homeopathic treatment. I had no idea it was a prescription a powerfull drug. It took me about 4 months to get the medication as it was shipped from Pakistan to the USA. The company posted 2 "home" addresses....one in Minnesota the other in Rome.

also is it normal that i am so tired all of the time??

Thanks for your reply, I am yet to start on Topamax, but this is what the neuro has prescribed for me. I was really wanting to find out as much as I can about it before I actually start taking it. My husband and I had planned on 'seeing what happened' when I came off the pill late summer '07. I then got really unwell again (this is 4th time I have been floored for months on end...) and so am not sure what to do now. I have since been back on the pill until I find out my options.

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