I love my topomax, I had some mild undiagnosed epilepsy going on too (that I had since childhood) that it also took care of, so that was a relief! And yeah, it did dumb me down at first, but I was also moving my prozac up and down, starting on wellbutrin, and increasing the topomax weekly to 400 mg, and was under tons of stress at work, eventually getting fired for anger issues and ending up on mental disability. (sorry all that sounds ridiculous to me too) now on a maintenance dose of 200 mg topomax and 20 mg prozac and feeling pretty good most days as long as stress is kept down. got off the wellbutrin after I stopped seeing my family - stress gone, med gone. I am once again the whiz I was at wheel of fortune! side effects - weight loss and falling over (but never got hurt, just would tip over!).