Sky,

I have not taken Gabitril, and so far the way it sounds I will have to put it on my list of meds I won't take.

About your experience with Topomax, I had very negative experience. My pDoc had me on it for bipolar and the effects of the Topamax nearly cost me my life.

While on Topomax, I would drive down the road and not know where I was going, I would try to get people to go with me so I would remember where it was I was going.

I had severe headaches, and have bone spurs on the vertebra of my cervical spine, which Topomax caused severe pain in my neck and upper back.

I quit taking it before seeing the pDoc when I was taking a trip to my mothers out of town on a road I drove every week. I became so confused that when I stopped at a stop sign of a 55 mph crossroad, I mistakingly proceeded thinking it was a 4 way stop, if the truck would not have blew his horn as I crawled across the road and looked he couldn't have been 1000feet from my side.

I decided after that I would NOT ever take Topomax again, and list as a drug allergy. Sorry I didn't have any advice on Gabitril, only wanted to share some of my Topomax horrors.