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Re: Topamax -- appetite loss or metabolism gain? » kashley

Posted by Stan on July 26, 2003, at 1:05:52

In reply to Re: Topamax -- appetite loss or metabolism gain?, posted by kashley on July 25, 2003, at 16:32:48

> My initial post has gone in some interesting directions, but I still hope to get a response to my initial question / concern about Topamax.
>
> Is the weight loss that Topamax seems to bring about caused only by decreased appetite or something else? I normally live a healthy low-calorie lifestyle -- if Topamax makes me eat even LESS, it will very unhealthy.
>
> Does Topamax effect the way your body digests the food that you eat. Does it effect your metabolism?
>
> Kashley

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kashley: someone posted a link the other day which led to some info about a similar drug, zonegran. if you follow this link (below) and then scroll down, you'll see some studies to click on that indicate that zonegran helps promote weight loss by some mechanism other than simply reducing the patients' appetite and causing them to restrict food intake. i just glanced at a couple of the articles -- i don't know if it raises the metabolic rate or operates in some other way to cause this effect (researchers may not even fully understand this). topamax should perform in a similar fashion as zonegran for weight loss -- not all mood-stabilizing anti-epilepsy drugs have this side effect, but these two seem to. here's the link:

http://qualitycounts.com/drugs/zonegran(zonisamide).htm


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