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.