TOPAMAX SURVEY - DOSAGE/LENGTH OF TIME/SUCCESS

[Larisa]

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Hi, again!

For what it's worth, I'm at 200 mg now. CS and DJ, I drank up to the day I started 200 mg, 8 days ago. I've been sober for 8 days, and it hasn't been that hard. I haven't been sober for 8 days in probably 7 years! Now I'm freaking out because at this rate, I'll run out of topa on Friday, and I probably won't get more until next week. Don't know if I can make it through the weekend without or with reduced dosage! Can somebody please put me in a cage for a few days? Because I am REALLY digging this sober thing.

I should tell you, though, that I am very tolerant of medications. I have had few if any side effects. Diet Coke tastes kinda funny, but I can still drink it. My emotions are a little out of whack. That's about it - a breeze compared to drinking side effects.

[sidney]

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I am 200mg and it really works for me.

[Larisa]

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I should also mention that the topa has only been a distant second to sidney in keeping me sober. Sorry, sid...had to be said.

[CS04]

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I am not going to be able to stay on topa -- just can't afford it. it's $60 for 30 tablets; the script is for 100 mg so for me to keep dosing up will cost me even more. I have the script, so if finances change in the next few months maybe I can fill it later. I think I'll have to just ough it out on my own, or do the L-glut. Glad it's working for you, Larisa and Sidney -- hope you have better insurance than I do!

[Larisa]

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Don't know if you are comfortable using an online pharmacy. If so, you might check out the prices at eshoprx.com. It's way cheaper. You fill out a simple form, and they'll write the prescription for you.

Still, I do know the topa's not for everybody. I'm just high on it because it's like a miracle that I've been sober for 9 days now. I honestly never thought I'd see the day.

[CS04]

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Larisa - Gotta say no to the online Rx -- hubby worked in healthcare for many years and would be very uncomfortable. (just curiuous, how much was it for you?) Personally, I don't think it's the topa doing it for me. I'm on day 8 and haven't gone this long in years either (pregnancy excepted, and I did drink a little bit toward the end of the pregnancy). Again, glad it's working for you - we have to take what we can get. Right now I am very frustrated with finances and there are cold beers in fridge!!

[Larisa]

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Boy, do I know that feeling. Financial worries are the worst! In fact, it was losing my job and everything else that initiated this slide into boozeville for me in the first place.

I got 180 100 mg pills for $135 plus $15 shipping for courier service (within 10 business days).

Congrats on 8 days! However you got there!!

[dj0062]

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CS - did you see Topmax website free offer? - I don't remember how many.
Thanks, Larisa and Sidney for your input. I guess I am lucky as far as insurance and side effects are not so bad. Like everybody says - AL has worse effects. So I will stick it out - today is titrate up day for me anyway.

[CS04]

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DJ -- I used a coupon that I found in the paper that I think is the same as the Topamax website -- 42 25-mg tablets. So since I already used it, I probably can't do it again, unless I find another dr and another pharmacy...but thanks for the suggestion.

[DeeBee]

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Damn, wish I had've found your thread earlier - just posted a new thread about the tingling in my toes - sorry about that.

I am currently on 75mg of Topa, I am not actively weighing myself (only cause I don't have a scale) but I do feel like I have lost a little around the middle, yippee. I have been taking it slow with increasing my Topa though, I am going onto my fifth week and although I am not going AF I have slowed down drinking DRAMATICALLY. I used to average 4 to 5 glasses of wine per night during the week and usually a 2 litre on the weekend (big bender) and now I have one glass whist cooking dinner and then remind myself to drink up... I am aiming to go totally AF which was never my intention so I am pretty stoked cause I never thought I would hear myself say that!!!
Yehahhhh!!
As for the tingling in the toes in the heels, that is too damn annoying for words, it wakes me up in the middle of the night, but, hey if that is the only side effect, I can live with it.

Thanks for a cool thread!

[Larisa]

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Hey, DeeBee, sounds like you're doing a lot better! Me too! Still on 200 mg of topa. I didn't have the tingling (I kind of feel robbed - everybody else did!!), but I think it might make me drowsy. I think the side effects are supposed to go away after awhile. Anyway, it sure is worth it, in my case. I hope it is in yours too!

[Its a miracle]

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Topamax results

The longer you stay on Topamax the better the result. Got really tired and hunger the other night and I broke down and bought a 6 pack of Heineken. Knew right away it was a mistake. The stuff tasted terrible and the buzz was bad. Forced down 3 ? and poured out half the forth one. I left the last 2 untouched by the trash bin for someone who cares about the stuff. Before Topamax (six months ago) I would have killed those 6 beers in a half hour and been looking for more. The stuff just works like magic for me.

[Captnjack]

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What dose are you on Miracle? Thanks
Cap

[Cowboy]

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Just started Topa

Just started taking Topa 25mg in the mornings for the last 10 days...wow...completely exhausted by 3pm...have to take a 2 hour nap every day...also having stomach issues. My drinking has decreased definitely but not completely.....I laugh sometimes because I think it is because I am too tired to pick up the glass to take a sip.

[Its a miracle]

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Topamax dosage and side effects

I take 100 mg of Topamax (River Pharmacy) and 600 mg of Adrafinil (Olmifon) from biogenesis-antiaging.com. The Adrafinil helps with the general loss of alertness and afternoon sleepiness ? that and couple coffees and ?energy? drinks.

I look at the whole Topamax thing in terms of trade offs and I am glad to trade in the hang ? overs and 1100 calories associated with a 6 pack of Redhook IPA for the minimal Topamax side effects.

As other on this site I have found the side effects to diminish over time - have been on the drug for approx. 5 months.