topamax and facial tingling

Hi Well, I had my repeat MRI done yesterday and am awaiting the results of that. I am having some odd symptoms...I am having facial numbness, not like I can't move a side of my face, but it feels when you've been at the dentist, and the numbness is wearing off. I also have a severe headache at the back of my head. This just started over the last couple of days. I know the headache can be symptomatic of chiari, but has anyone else had the facial numbness?

my side effects are that my arms and legs are numb and tingling like pins and needles and I am very tired I have diahreea alot. you have to stay in contact with your doc while on the medication.

hello, anyone on topamax? I've been on it for about five weeks and its been great for my migraines but I've been having a lot of side effects! like tingling in my hand and feet and really bad heart burn every day! also get moody and cry. very bad fatigue too. will any of this go away???

t try Topamax before but what I know is numbness and tingling are some of Topamax side effects. It become less with time. Are numbness and tingling really bad? or u can handle it? Do you have any other side effects? How long to use it? Is Topamax useful as mood stabilizer and good for weight loss according to your experience?

ve been on Topamax building up to 100mg per day for the past 4 weeks now and the tingling and the word finding difficulty side effects are not that different to what I was experiencing before with the migraines/headaches I was getting every day. Diet coke tastes ugh,which I am quite sad about and I have to remind myself to eat which again is not a bad thing. The days where my head is clear ( so far about 2 days out of every 7 ) I feel such a sense of relief.

But I know a lot of people who topamax works for, and they never even have to try anything else.

Brain fog, chatty kathy, spacey and just plain stupid, no appetite, tingling, and insomnia. I went from 50 to 75mg, 5 weeks later and 75 to 100mg 4 weeks later, working up slowly does help with the side effects. Over time I have found most of my side effects subside: I take it for nerve pain and complex migraines. Certain side effects have stayed: anything carbonated taste awful, tingling in hands and feet, small twitch in left eye for last week or so.

Referred to neurologist who prescribed Topamax and 24hr EEG. Three hours after taking first dose of Topamax 25mg I was rushed to hospital after waking from sound sleep with nausea, severe muscle spasms, and loss of speech. Muscle spasm and exaggerated twitching stopped after about an hour. Told to not take Rx anymore until after EEG. Spasms and speech loss continued on and off daily with brain fog and extreme fatigue being constant for 3 weeks.

My neuro has told me in english I have left ear nerve damage that was probable caused by the Ebstein Barr early part of the year and rx me Alprazolam .25MG and Topamax.25 and advised nothing but time will help this and would see me in thirty days. This is fine by me however the above statements have me concerned????

Yes. Burning and tingling are paresthesias.

m having post Op Migraines. He gave me Topamax to control them. Unfortunately I had serious side effect to topamax and had to stop taking them after only 2 tablets. I am now too scared to take any other medicines. The headaches have been getting worse over the last 2 months and very bad the last 3 days but I am getting some relief right now :). Will be seeing the neurologist again after christmas. Will be interesting to see what he says, cos i really dont think im going to take medicines !

I've been on Topamax for over a year now and it did that to me at first too, the numbness or tingling, mostly in my toes, I started out at 50mg. and now have been on 75mg, for 6 mos. I will say for me, those side effects have gone away and personally the good out ways the bad, you see, I had a mild stroke from the migraine I had, I have hemiplegic migraines and to me it is worth a little discomfort rather than go through that again!

yes i have that to , when am in anxiety i get the tingling on my face /ears top of head and sometimes it feels a warm tingling or hot. ive had it for years, thats one of the ways i know am having anxiety when that starts or the cold chills. so just go with it and it will go away, when your anxiety gets better , and mine last for weeks or months at a time it might go away a hour or so in day the day but it always comes back to let me know am still anxiety.

I was building the topamax up and lowering the lamictal down. Now I am just on the topamax. The side affects seem quite scary to me, severe dizziness and very off balance, I am always tired and have tingling in the hands and feet. I seem loss for words and confused. Will these side affects deteriorate over the a certain amount of time? It is difficult when I have to go to work and live everyday life. Please help.

Facial nerve palsy is characterized by inability to close eye, loss of sensation on affected part, difficulty in speaking and mask like face on affected side because facial nerve innervates facial muscles and any damage to facial nerve may cause inability make facial expressions like smiling, frowning etc. Second possibility is Trigeminal neuralgia - neural pain of face with possible loss of sensation on the affected part of face but eye is seldom involved.

Please google Topamax side effects or Topamax reviews and you will see many people with a lot of the same symptoms as you. Good luck to you and God Bless.

Am off now but when first taking Topamax (2 yrs+@75mg) for migraine I felt terrible. Dizzy, headachy, "car sick"..sort of like the flu. It slowly went away after a few weeks. It takes a while to get used to it and to find a dosage that you can tolerate and that does help. Oh yea, I used to get "prickly" feet..some call it tingling but it was a bit more painful. Sounds wierd but eating a banana (potasium) would make it stop. I started eating one each day..

I have recently seen a maxillary facial surgeon and it looks as though I have had symptoms of facial migraine and neuropathic pain. If any muscles used in chewing have been cut off in any Neurosurgery make sure you get physiotherapy straight away because it really hurts and these dysfunctions can be made worse during potentially stressful times. I think with Neurosurgery a lot unfortunately gets disturbed and in my opinion this gets overlooked in the long term.

Cholesterol was 172, HDL 60, triglycerides 75, blood pressure 110/70, pulse 60. Yet, chronic facial flushing and episodes of tongue tingling continue. Again, thank you.

I've never tried Topamax and I was wondering what other peoples' experiences have been like, if they have tried it and all. I just read some information on the FMS forum that not only is it helpful for migraines, but they're finding that it helps with FMS, too. I'm more interested in the migraine help with it myself. I have an appointment with the neurologist coming up soon, so I would like to know what others think about Topamax and if it works.

Fortunately, God was on her side because she was smart enough to stop the Topamax and go to the emergency room before she developed an attack of acute narrow angle glaucoma (symptoms severe eye pain, headache, nausea, vomiting, almost complete vision loss.) Her ocular pressure was actually only slightly elevated and with cessation of the Topamax, her pressure returned to normal in a day, while it took over a week for her vison to return to normal.

the past few days i have been experiencing neck pain, facial swelling and tingling in cheeks. as a kid if you have ever stood on your head and then got up real quick...the blood rushing to your head type of feeling is what i am experiencing in my cheeks. if that makes sense. i went to my nuro today he said stop the verapamil it could be the cause. should i go to the ER? this is really bothering me and is there anything they can do at the ER for me?

I suffered a SAH on the 24 Jan 2013. I was operated on and three platinum coils were successfully placed in the aneurysm in the anterior cerebral artery. My recovery was fast and miraculous in every way. Recently I've been experiencing a tingling, numbness along my jaw bone and chin and I have also felt the same in my hands. I contacted my neurosurgeon as I thought I was having a stroke but after numerous questions, he put my mind at rest that all is well.

I have read that there is an association with hsv-1 reactivation and Bell's Palsy. Do you ever see Bell's Palsy during the course of a primary hsv infection? My 26 y.o. son is awaiting test results after hsv genital type symptoms from a sexual encounter of about 20 days ago. He was negative for IgG hsv-1 and 2 but positive for hsv IgM (which I gather is nonspecifc for hsv 1 or 2) He has had some mild skin changes (about 2 cm.

Topamax and facial tingling

Common Questions and Answers about Topamax and facial tingling

topamax