Posted by headachequeen on March 12, 2004, at 14:43:23
In reply to Re: Starting on Topomax for Migraines. Advice anyone?, posted by Nikki B. on March 12, 2004, at 14:18:56
> Thank you all for your feed back. And if I decide to give this a try I know I will be back often seeking advice!
I think the best suggestion anyone can make is to try it... the relief from the head-aches is wonderful...
then to deal with side effects as and IF they occur...
Making a decision based on what might or might not happen is really not going to be too helpful...I know that if I had made a decision on whether or not to try using Topomax based on someone else's experiences or fears, I would still be somewhere out there having three or four seizures a week, sometimes two a night...
while I know that my seizures are not as bad as those others have... they are seizures and as such something I can do without...
and the Topomax has made a huge difference...
I just looked back over the diary I keep...
and the year before I started taking Topomax is littered with records of seizures...
the year after shows a whole eight months without...
then there were a couple and then none and then a couple sort of thing...
there have been a few of late... something not quite adjusted and that will be settled soon I hope...
but the migraines are gone...
and that is wonderful...
at least I have only one of the two to deal with...
the hair problem is minor...
and as my hair stylist said yesterday --- went in and asked her about my hair specifically then checked with another one --- the hair loss I am seeing is normal... and I am over-reacting because of what I have read and heard...
both of them told me to relax...
one told me I needed a trim actually LOLApparently Aspirin causes more problems than Topomax and problems that can be life-threatening according to reports that have been released in the past year or so and yet we keep taking them for everything from head-ache to sore throats...
the experts say that if the aspirin were discovered today it would be available by prescription only yet people are not worried about it half as much as we worry about Topomax which is monitored by our doctors... blood tests and so on... follow-ups....
If the migraines are really a problem, then why not take a deep breath, try Topomax with your doctor monitoring your progress?
as long as you have that follow-up then you should be okay...
makes more sense than buying more asa ....
at least to me...
kat
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