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Posted by shersher on January 3, 2002, at 19:59:30
I am new to this site and am wondering who out there is on lithium and topamax??? My doc put me on topamax for MD to control my mania and to help me lose weight in Oct. I began to get hypmanic in Dec and he is adding back 450 mg of lithium to my 200 mg of topa and 100 of zoloft....is anyone taking that much medicine?????????????????????????
Posted by akc on January 3, 2002, at 21:27:16
In reply to topamax and lithium, posted by shersher on January 3, 2002, at 19:59:30
Yes! I am currently on 600 mg twice a day lithium, 100 mg of topamax each night, 75 mg effexor xr each a.m., and 200 mg of seroquel twice a day.
I was on everything and added the topamax this past July to help with mood stabilization and weight loss, and to get off lithium. When my dose of topamax got up to 200 mg, I had problems again, part of it with a more manic state (I'm more prone to mixed states or depressive states). So we added the lithium back in and decreased the topamax -- I wanted to stay on the topamax for the weight loss effects (or at least weight maintenance). I had some cognitive dulling, so we further decreased it to the current 100 mg. I am concerned it might still be having some more subtle effects on my cognitive abilities.
Hope this helps.
akc
Posted by Mitch on January 4, 2002, at 10:35:43
In reply to topamax and lithium, posted by shersher on January 3, 2002, at 19:59:30
> I am new to this site and am wondering who out there is on lithium and topamax??? My doc put me on topamax for MD to control my mania and to help me lose weight in Oct. I began to get hypmanic in Dec and he is adding back 450 mg of lithium to my 200 mg of topa and 100 of zoloft....is anyone taking that much medicine?????????????????????????
Wow, that sounds like a lot of Zoloft for a bipolar diagnosis. I developed rather intense hypomanias on it if I took more than 25mg/day. I would ask your doc about that. Do you need the Zoloft for anything other than depression?
Mitch
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