Posted by headachequeen on August 21, 2005, at 17:51:18
In reply to Re: Topamax increase - stupifying! » headachequeen, posted by ClearSkies on August 21, 2005, at 16:23:49
> Thanks so much!! I read your post on the thread further above and clued in that I was going too quickly on the titration.
> I'm feeling much more "with it".
> ClearSkiesToo often we are given too little information about the medications we are told to take...
and then when we have problems with the side effects we quit taking the meds that might have helped us had we been properly prepared for them...
other times we are given meds with no proper background and are not prepared for the devastating properties or for the potential chaos when two meds clash...
that is one of the benefits of places such as this board where we can ask questions of people who have actually experienced the medication...
the risk is to read the negative effects from someone who took it and quit without trying to work things out...
for instance a person who titrated up too fast or, like me, who didn't read the directions and started with morning dosages and was so nauseated it was really devastating... my own fault... and when I read the directions and started over, everything worked rather well...I do have problems, though, with doctors who do not learn about new medications that render old work horse medications obsolete, especially when those older meds have really horrendous side effects...
some on this list pointed out that in the UK topamax is used on its own to combat epilepsy and that gave me the ammunition I needed.
I am now rid of the really dangerous med and doing much better with just topamax...
turns out the tegretol was causing seizures... and is known to do that...
someone had to do his homework....
thank heaven someone here did!!!!!
kat
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