Topamax warning

I just found out that taking this medication can cause stress incontinence which is something I’ve been having an issue with for the last month.

I started taking it not to long ago. I stopped taking it a few days ago. This is scary & upsetting.

Has anyone else had any issues taking this medication?

I had multiple issues each time I tried taking Topamax, even at tiny dosages, but I did not have stress incontinence on it.

Apparently it is a rarely reported side effect, or at least it was in 2014: Topiramate-Associated Urinary Incontinence: A Case Verified... : Clinical Neuropharmacology.

Sorry to hear that. What issue did it cause you to have? I have an issue with acid reflux which makes me cough which causes the leakage issue too. So it’s not just the Topamax doing this.

However I don’t recall having this issue on Cymbalta which was only a few months ago. Weird.

I had depression, difficulty with word recall, dizziness, and general malaise.

Sorry to hear that.

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...

I've had no issue with it other than it adding restricting to my eating disorder and helping me become even more underweight. I had a friend say it screwed with her eyes pretty badly.

Sorry for the tmi. But I've crapped my pants twice in my sleep this year and I never really thought it could be the topamax or something else I was dealing with.

You are on a bunch of meds. Could be something else.

I just googled it because I've been so stressed and anxious in general recently and it says Topamax can cause all that. I was in a good mood this morning before I took my AM dose. Now I'm all down and depressrd. I'm thinking of asking my pdoc to take me off it when I see him on the 8th.

Why have you been put on it in the first place? it is an odd decision to put someone suffering from an eating disorder on topamax.

Pretty sure you were asking MD, but I was put on it in a last ditch attempt at halving my IQ so I'd turn from an annoying smartass to a harmless dumbass. I'm not on it anymore.

Yes, I was asking MD.

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.

Omg, these side effects are scary!

Sorry to hear that. Try pearl probiotics. It might help balance your gut bacteria. It’s small & easy to swallow. You can find it on Amazon or Sprouts market.

Stop talking it then.

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.

There is low evidence tif any hat Topamax helps with bipolar and yet it keeps getting prescribed. I do not know about depression and anxiety but certainly not the first line of defense. Is the psychiatrist though County mental health?

The pdoc might be increasing the dose to find a therapeutic dose and not out of stubbornness. Just a thought.

I haven’t taken topamax but it was one of the drugs they considered for my migraines, I’ve since read about the link to cognitive dysfunction and even possibly dementia. I would refuse this drug with this knowledge and urge anyone on it to carefully research the long term effects.

It scares me what irreversible long term effects many medications can have.

Every time I start and then stop Topiramate, word finding difficulty immediately disappears upon stopping. The dementia associated with Topiramate appears to be reversible, too.
Reversible Dementia Secondary to Topiramate : Clinical Neuropharmacology.

Every time I start and then stop Topiramate, word finding difficulty immediately disappears upon stopping. The dementia associated with Topiramate appears to be reversible, too.
Reversible Dementia Secondary to Topiramate : Clinical Neuropharmacology.

Idk, maybe. She doesn’t seem to really know what she’s doing at times tbh.