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Old Mar 03, 2016, 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by BeyondtheRainbow View Post
I'm not on enough for it to help. I was very hopeful when I went on it (I started it for migraines) but I never was able to tolerate more than a tiny bit. It did help my mood a little bit though so I kept taking it at the tiny dose. Now that I'm on clozaril I'll probably come off it eventually if the clozaril continues to help.

Topamax isn't really supposed to be a great mood stabiizer and often causes confusion ("Dop-a-max") before it does much for mood or weight. Which is too bad since my feeling is that it could be a good drug if I could just tolerate more of it.
Yeah it definitely lives up to its name of 'Dop-a-max' but I was hoping to take it for max a year and then wean off it since it really helped me so far for weight loss (I've been on 150mg for 3weeks)