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Default Jan 02, 2024 at 03:19 PM
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I have had to restart it to control hunger. I have only taken two smallest doses (25 mg tabs) and I have already had one episode of forgetting a word. As is typical of such memory lapses, the word suddenly came back to me several hours later when I was not looking for it but rather was simply eating dinner.

But I have to control hunger so I am afraid that I will need to live with occasional word retrieval problems. Luckily I know a lot of synonyms, so there are workarounds...
Sorry to hear that. I recently stopped taking it since I didn’t feel a difference in how it made me feel.

I’m OK without it. i’m taking vitamins now & will look into trying natural herbal pills instead.
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Default Jan 02, 2024 at 03:34 PM
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Sorry to hear that. I recently stopped taking it since I didn’t feel a difference in how it made me feel.

I’m OK without it. i’m taking vitamins now & will look into trying natural herbal pills instead.
What were you taking Topamax for? It is prescribed for a wide variety of needs by doctors of different specialties.

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What were you taking Topamax for? It is prescribed for a wide variety of needs by doctors of different specialties.
Depression & anxiety. My psychiatrist is stubborn & she’ll insist on increasing the dosage first before starting me on anything new Nothing works, so I give up. She’s a free psychiatrist. I only get prescription ls from her.
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Depression & anxiety. My psychiatrist is stubborn & she’ll insist on increasing the dosage first before starting me on anything new Nothing works, so I give up. She’s a free psychiatrist. I only get prescription ls from her.
The pdoc might be increasing the dose to find a therapeutic dose and not out of stubbornness. Just a thought.

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The pdoc might be increasing the dose to find a therapeutic dose and not out of stubbornness. Just a thought.
Idk, maybe. She doesn’t seem to really know what she’s doing at times tbh.
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