Posted by headachequeen on July 14, 2004, at 12:32:02
In reply to Re: Topamax, posted by bridgey1128 on July 13, 2004, at 18:39:52
> well oddly enough, the tingling in my hand, the really prickly feeling I felt was when I was lying on my back and my hand was resting on my chest. It wasn't under my head at all. I normally sleep with my hand under my pillow because I sleep on my side. If I had moved at all I would have remembered because unfortunately whenever I move during the night I remember it. Every..single...time.I guess that's why I sleep so hard the rest of the night. When I DO sleep hard I don't move at all. I actually felt it was ok to move up to the 150mg after 2 weeks. I wasn't going to because I was going on vacation but honestly when I woke up in the middle of the night on the first night with a horible night terror because something was coming right at my face and made me sit bolt upright in bed with a scream at the back of my throat...I caught it before it came out...I decided I should probably go on up. I hadn't had the tinglies with the 125mg so I assumed after the 2 weeks that it was ok to go up. If I had had any side effects with the 125 I wouldn't have gone up. I think my body was ready. Anyway, the floaters are worrying me along with this right eye headache. I guess I should go to the Dr or the eye Dr and see if he sees anything. ARRGH. Anyway...
Bridgey, ma chere amie, I would guess that you need a little longer between increments...
but the floaters worry me...
I have never heard anyone mention them in regard to Topomax...
anyone is free to jump in with their anecdotes about floaters here....
but they are linked to cataracts...
as for the headache related to just the right eye...
I would see an opthamologist... not just the optometrist but a doctor who specialises in eye ailments... this may be a topomax adjustment thing but it may not be and why fool around with your vision?
tingles come and go... hair loss can be dealt with by taking supplements and using the shampoos and conditioners that are designed for it such as the Joico one my hairstylist recommends... oops she is no longer a stylist but a designer... have to get the terminology correct... sigh...
but vision, especially when it is not a side effect but a problem of its own, is not to be taken lightly...
all these years that I thought my vision problems were a side effect of epilepsy and expected the right dosage of tegritol and topomax to make them go away, only to discover that they were nothing at all related, but were problems of their own and were going to make me lose my sight if I did not get help and get it quickly...
good grief, says my inner self, what else can go wrong????
It is not worth wondering about... asking a doctor is simply practical
in the meantime, try cutting the increase by half... what if you cut back from a 25mg increment to half that??? or as close as that can be managed??? see if that makes it change...
the terrors have to be banished and this seems to help in that respect, so deal with them and work up to the larger dosage and see if that deals with the tingling and look into the floaters...
An optometrist will tell you if the floaters are related to serious eye problems and refer you to an opthalmologist... that is how I was helped...
asked my doctor who said it was not his field to see an optometrist who sent me to the next level who sent me to the really high-powered surgical specialist...and eight or nine, I have lost track, surgical procedures later, I have no more problems other than the cataracts that I am too young to have and that are not ready to be dealt with... hence the floaters that occur every so often and the spider-web-effects on occasion...
but no more seeing things in sepia tones and no more pressure on my eyes and no more feeling as if someone is trying to drive a spike from the top of my skull through my right eye -- what a relief that is...
kat
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