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From: "J. T. Laurie" <taylor-se...@satx.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: topamax and long-term side effects?
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 06:25:10 -0500
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Thank you. that was enlightening. I'll ask my doc when I see him today.
"Sofia" <pinkmonster2000REM...@ALLCAPSyahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> J. T. Laurie wrote:
>
>> Anyone who has taken opiramate in the past might be able to answer it,
>> unfortunately I can't find any sort of reference to long-term side
>> effects. Lately I've noticed that for several hours or days at a time
>> I cannot think beyond about two seconds into the future. Also it seems
>> that during this time I have absolutely no sense of humor, and that my
>> depression nicely gets worse. I was on topamax 75mg a night for about
>> four months, then back on it again for about a week in May to see if
>> it really was migraines that I suffered from. No go. I was also at the
>> time on 16mg of periactine a night, and am still on 900-1200mg of
>> gabapentin a day. Any input welcome.
>
> Hi J T Laurie, I suppose you can get side effects from most meds for
> epilepsy, but I found this site for you on my google.
>
> http://www.medicinenet.com/topiramate-oral/article.htm#SideEffects
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Sofie
>
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