New here and starting Topa and with a question
Hi everyone - Mochalatte - welcome but PLEASE, edit your post and take your e-mail out - there are way more folk than just us here that read these posts - you can set your profile up so anyone can e-mail you if they want to - please take it out of your post - you have no idea who reads these posts! Anyway, after I have said that, yes, the cravings did return for me after I stopped the Topa, and I was on it for a lot longer than the 12 weeks - it took ages for me to get to the point where it actually worked for the cravings to go away. I think of it as a long term med to be honest....... the cognitive effects are different for everyone. until you try it, you won't know. It doesn't some folk at all - it affected me very little although some days I can't think of words - but then I am 58, so it could be age!! Apart from that I haven't noticed anything different. You need to try it to find out how it affects you personally. Good luck and keep us posted! PM me if you need any more info.
2Run - my switch never happened after the first time as I didn't get up to that high dose that I need. My body can't take that high dose without bad side effects (depression that is too bad to live with). I am fine until I get to 250, then when I get to 300mg, the cravings ALL go away and I am great re the AL, but about 2 weeks later, along comes the depression. This time I have done it without the high dose of Topa. However, each time I did start the Topa, the SE's were different. Some times I didn't even know i was taking it, other times the tingling was really severe - it seemed to be as if I was taking a different drug at times! I must have restarted Topa at least four or five times and each time, although mild, the feelings were different. I wish I had had the non interest that a few folk have had at the low dose - that would have been awesome. I do still take it, but am not sure why really. maybe it is like a security blanket for me thinking it might still be helping me - I have no cravings at all and am not taking anything else at all now - not even the L-Glut. So it could be working for now at the lower dose. It isn't broken and I am not fixing it - LOL and I shall continue to take it. The other thing is that when we are taking something like Topa - we tend to think that EVERYTHING that we feel or that happens to our bodies is related to that drug - sometimes we just feel the way we feel because we do - it might not be related to the Topa at all. That is just my thought on the subject.......
Just got home from work and am going to go and have a read - love and hugs to all,
love, sun X
Hi everyone - Mochalatte - welcome but PLEASE, edit your post and take your e-mail out - there are way more folk than just us here that read these posts - you can set your profile up so anyone can e-mail you if they want to - please take it out of your post - you have no idea who reads these posts! Anyway, after I have said that, yes, the cravings did return for me after I stopped the Topa, and I was on it for a lot longer than the 12 weeks - it took ages for me to get to the point where it actually worked for the cravings to go away. I think of it as a long term med to be honest....... the cognitive effects are different for everyone. until you try it, you won't know. It doesn't some folk at all - it affected me very little although some days I can't think of words - but then I am 58, so it could be age!! Apart from that I haven't noticed anything different. You need to try it to find out how it affects you personally. Good luck and keep us posted! PM me if you need any more info.
2Run - my switch never happened after the first time as I didn't get up to that high dose that I need. My body can't take that high dose without bad side effects (depression that is too bad to live with). I am fine until I get to 250, then when I get to 300mg, the cravings ALL go away and I am great re the AL, but about 2 weeks later, along comes the depression. This time I have done it without the high dose of Topa. However, each time I did start the Topa, the SE's were different. Some times I didn't even know i was taking it, other times the tingling was really severe - it seemed to be as if I was taking a different drug at times! I must have restarted Topa at least four or five times and each time, although mild, the feelings were different. I wish I had had the non interest that a few folk have had at the low dose - that would have been awesome. I do still take it, but am not sure why really. maybe it is like a security blanket for me thinking it might still be helping me - I have no cravings at all and am not taking anything else at all now - not even the L-Glut. So it could be working for now at the lower dose. It isn't broken and I am not fixing it - LOL and I shall continue to take it. The other thing is that when we are taking something like Topa - we tend to think that EVERYTHING that we feel or that happens to our bodies is related to that drug - sometimes we just feel the way we feel because we do - it might not be related to the Topa at all. That is just my thought on the subject.......
Just got home from work and am going to go and have a read - love and hugs to all,
love, sun X
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