Hello,
I have been on topamax about a month an a half and I have lost 8-10 lbs. I have done some working out nothing too extreme. But I have an appetite that has increased! I eat all the time and I eat whatever and I feel like it never goes on my body. I am usually one that has to watch what I eat like a hawk but now I don't feel that way at all. I am trying to figure out why my appetite has increased but I'm losing weight? I also feel that my weight loss is slower than others-- I mean because most have lost 20lbs or something ridiculous in a month! Mine definitely is not like that. This drug has done wonders for me. I am bipolar and I have found something to stabilize me. It made me really dopey in the beginning but now, I'm sharp. Hardly any side effects. I take lots of vitamins daily and work out and that is my secret I feel like to keeping those bad side effects away... At least that's how I'm going to approach it. Good luck friends
I have been on topamax about a month an a half and I have lost 8-10 lbs. I have done some working out nothing too extreme. But I have an appetite that has increased! I eat all the time and I eat whatever and I feel like it never goes on my body. I am usually one that has to watch what I eat like a hawk but now I don't feel that way at all. I am trying to figure out why my appetite has increased but I'm losing weight? I also feel that my weight loss is slower than others-- I mean because most have lost 20lbs or something ridiculous in a month! Mine definitely is not like that. This drug has done wonders for me. I am bipolar and I have found something to stabilize me. It made me really dopey in the beginning but now, I'm sharp. Hardly any side effects. I take lots of vitamins daily and work out and that is my secret I feel like to keeping those bad side effects away... At least that's how I'm going to approach it. Good luck friends
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Oh my gosh! You just told my thoughts. I too am bulimic. I prayed with endless hours of exercise. My doctor put me on 50 milligrams a day less than a week ago. I'm hungry all the time. All I do is think about food. I'd rather have food more than anything else in the whole world. The greatest joy I get. I'm hoping this medication will take away that craving. I'm very lean and an athlete. But if I didn't exercise the way I do try to be 300 pounds. I just want to take the edge off and get my life back. I'm so obsessed with working out and eating that I have no time for friends family or anything else. I thought about upping the dosage just to get quicker results if I get results at all. But I'm going to be true to myself and take it as prescribed. I just hope I'm going to be one of the lucky ones that it will work on me and take this obsession away take the bin jeena way take the exercise and eat away take it all away and give me my life back thanks for listening
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Take the binge away so I don't have to work out for 6 hours a day and get my life back.
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I'm going through this now. Did you quit med and did you lose weight? Gaining weight despite hrs of exercise daily.
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I'm taking topamax for migraine I stay hungry but I am losing weight went from 164 to 145 which is great because I'm 5'1
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Topamax made me excruciatingly hungry and binged horribly. My vision went really bad on it also. I quit taking it 2 weeks ago and am already seeing significant weight loss! Yay!!!!
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Ironic that you replied to my post all that while ago and then I came back today with the desperate thought of upping my dose to try to see if I get any more appetite suppression …saw your reply enough to think twice. All these months later, I wonder if Topomax is working at all with helping me with the hunger thing. I want to keep taking it just because my weight has been stable while I've been trying to learn to eat again for the past 6 months. That's really what I'm being taught bulimia recovery is: psychotherapy and behavior modification. Part of me still wants to drop 10 pounds. More of me wants the freedom from the b/p cycle. Life should be so much better. Bulimia can make it so pointless. Such hopelessness. At 50mg …I wonder if Topomax can actually help me at all. My pdoc doesn't like the drug and I don't know if I can get her to up the mg. I still optimistically wonder if it would actually be the 'crutch' I need that would help me anyway.
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I took it and lost control of my apetite. Even stopping my apetite is still out of control. Wish i had never took it.
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Same here!! Lost complete control! I was eating 1/2 gallons of ice cream in on day.. Like 3 or 4 days a week. By myself. Among other crazy amounts of fatty foods. And healthy foods for that matter...at the time I was blaming the madness on risperedone but it continued for months after I stopped taking it. Only til today have I decided to finally look up if anyone's had this problem with topamax the only "skinny" med I'm on that couldn't possibly cause weight GAIN.
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I feel your pain. Every medication I've taken for my epilepsy, I've gotten paridoxical symptoms. I took Zonagran for about 2 years and it usually mellows people out but I became so aggressive it was too much for my family so I was taken off of it. Now I'm on Topiramate and I've gained about 50 lbs in the last 6-9 months. I can't blame it entirely on the medication but it probably didn't aid the weight gain.
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I am so glad that I decided to google this! I have been on topamax for a very long time. I did loos at first but then I gained and with age I am having a very hard time taking it off. i have decreased my dose but may try to go off.
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Girl I'm going through the same thing I just started on topomax lost 5 pounds and constantly hungry! lol thought I had some tape worm or something!
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I take it and I'm only 15 because I have really bad headaches and every time I eat I get back hungry
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I have been on topamax for 2 and a half weeks..i cant get enough to eat...all i want is sweets..this is awful..
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