Posted by headachequeen on December 6, 2003, at 16:12:25
In reply to Topamax warning for girls only, posted by PC Kes on December 4, 2003, at 18:28:29
> Warning to girls taking any carbonic anhydrase inhibitor (this includes Topamax and Diamox), this class of drugs not only dries up saliva and tears,
Oh, now this is rich.... truly rich....
on top of everything else it dries up tears as well as saliva??? and all the rest of the warning????
I happen to have been diagnosed a year or two ago with a severe dry eye problem as well as blocked tear ducts... they say that people grow to look like their dogs, not I. I take on their ailments... blocked tear ducts and dry eye being a common problem among the breed of dog I choose to work with... and to add to the bizarre links, I happen to have entropion as is common in the breed and am waiting for surgery on my upper eye lids to ease the pain and pressure on my eyes... it is funny to a great degree but it is not at all funny to another degree.
The eye surgeon and the other eye specialist are trying to understand why my eyes are not responding to treatment but remain severely dry... the decision is made to operate and try to open the tear ducts as well but the eyes will not stay lubricated... happy topomax results it would seem...
what next?????
well, what next is that the neurologist in renewing the prescription for tegritol made an error in the amount and prescribed double the dosage and I didn't catch it nor did he and the pharmacist thought he meant to increase it to 800 mg a day... oh such fun it is to live on a merry-go-round...
sometimes I think it might be easier to have the epilepsy....
meanwhile I am enjoying??? a return of some of the symptoms as I adjust to the lowered dosage of tegritol after almost two months on the higher dosage...
side effect or what????
I will not stop taking the topomax as it seems, side effects or not, to be the only constantly successful fighter of the seizures in this whole thing... there are no migraines and it does not seem to be causing any really drastic problems for me... none that I cannot handle yet anyway as I am the one who controls the dosage...
and I am not going to let that fall out of my control....
as long as I keep a link with the people here who are able to keep me informed...
I have yet to have a single warning from my pharmacist or my doctor or my neuro about topo other than the weight warning...
and I am still waiting and still fuming about the lack of input...
someone is remiss there... and they keep hearing about it...
wouldn't you think that someone somewhere would get the message??? and start explaining side effects and how to deal with them?????
Other than here, that is...
and thank you all again and again....
and back to the gallons of water and the biotin and and and and....oh yes, and since they put me on Cipro to battle the asthma ... tons of side effect warnings there that I was never given before.. I guess someone was listening after all sigh....
not to take within six hours of taking vitamin or mineral or iron supplements and not to take the supplements within two hours of taking the Cipro... as I take it twice a day it gets tricky to fit in the supplements... and as Topomax eats up the vitamins and minerals that makes it really awkward....
that merry-go-round is spinning faster!!!!!
kat
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