Posted by headachequeen on October 11, 2004, at 10:21:45
In reply to Re: chocolate meds, posted by stressed on October 10, 2004, at 19:14:32
> It may be the age thing, because I'm not on Topomax, and my hair is getting darker and darker. I will have to watch M's hair for the darkening effect. She is not really having many side-effects, and I hope that means she won't have trouble addapting to it. I can't decide if it is making her moods more leveled out at all. She is a MOODY girl, (like me)and we haven't had any "Freak Outs" for several weeks. Is it suppose to help that type of behavior? She says it still makes her hungry. I'm wondering if she would be hungry anyway. She's really trying to eat healthfully these days, and it helps the rest of us eat that way also. So who is the one with the dogs? I am an avid animal lover and have a Corgi, which I adopted from the Animal Rescue. (He at an entire pan of brownies, and was sick for an entire day----all over my great room.) Chocolate does make the deathly sick.
Actually chocolate can kill them...although I think it has to be baking chocolate.. a friend who raises and shows german shorthaired pointers lost an incredibly great one... almost a year old... had just cleaned up at one of the top shows for her group against older more experienced dogs... ate a Belgian chocolate bar and her heart exploded when she saw a cat and started barking...
the same chemical is in turkey skin I knew but I did not know it is in milk or bananas and I often throw bananas into the dogs' veg and fruit mix...I also learned the hard way that turkey is not as lean as I thought when I was in my let's get thin mode as it caused pancreatitis in one of my dogs... learned it is high in fats and sodium then...
the things I learn about health through them...
as for the still hungry and eating...
one can be hungry but not want to eat the same junk stuff.. hard to understand but I found that I wanted to eat other foods than the junk that I had been drawn to before Topomax...
as for the hair darkening... mine used to be such a dark red and has been lightening... and breaking my heart; nothing to do with topomax... it is age but thank heaven it is not going that horrible peroxide yellow shade red hair so often goes...
yetI have heard many people say that topomax has a calming effect too, stressed so it may be helping there too along with the therapy...
kat
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