Re: [epilepsy] Topamax

 

I didnt like Topamax either. It didnt work my seizures. I got a lot of weight although I haerd I'd be losing weight taking it!

From: elizabeth <equinn76@earthlink.net>
To: epilepsy@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: [epilepsy] Topamax

 
Well, at first, I couldn't remember what I was trying to say. I would be speaking, then totally forget the thought/word. After a while my memory left too...but only for certain things. I'm okay for my job-but ask me stuff about my friends, and I can't remember.

elizabeth

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TIMOTHY BALDWIN <tbb1@prodigy.net> wrote:

>Elizabeth,
>Is verbal-memory loss related to the inability to produce words after it was
>finally remembered?Is it the brains inability to send that word to the voice box
>instantly just after memory took so long to find it.On the day of my left
>temporal lobectomy I was warned of a possible loss of this and I didn't know of
>its meaning then or now,Topamax wasn't my cause. Tim Baldwin
>
>
>
>________________________________
>From: elizabeth <equinn76@earthlink.net>
>To: epilepsy@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Sun, June 19, 2011 2:25:08 PM
>Subject: Re: [epilepsy] Topamax
>
>
>I hated Topamax! It causes memory loss (short-term) and it causes problems with
>word finding. You also have to be careful long-term with glaucoma issues. I
>stopped it because of the word finding problems. You can only say "uhhh" so
>often!
>
>Hope this helps!
>
>Elizabeth
>
>Sent from Samsung mobile
>
>hip70s <hip70s@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>I just started taking topamax.
>>And I want to know if anyone taking it has alot of side effects?
>>I know alot of meds have side effects, but maybe this one is diff or the same
>>from others?
>>Are any of you taking it and what are your side effects?
>>
>
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