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Old Sep 11, 2014, 02:35 PM
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So I started Topamax 6 days ago and I think I'm starting to feel the dumbs coming on. For instance, I couldn't think of the word for "that thing on the side of your house that you attach a hose to" (spigot). It wasn't like it was on the tip of my tongue. It was just absent from my vocabulary. Until someone told me.

I feel very slow and dopey, and kind of anxious and pissed because of it. I've been very up and productive and like a machine at work, and now this. I know. They call it Dopamax for a reason.

Is this side effect temporary? How do you combat it/cope with it? I miss how I've been the past few weeks. I don't want that to go away.
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Cymbalta, 60mg -- for the depression.
Latuda, 40mg -- for the paranoia (delusional type).
Adderall, 40mg XR & 5 mg reg -- for the ADD.
Xanax, .5 mg as needed -- for the anxiety.
Topamax, 50mg -- still figuring this one out.

MDD, but possibly have some form of Bipolar Disorder. Then again, I could be paranoid . . .

Well, at least I still have my sense of humor.
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