Migraine - Inconsistent gut problem - was it the Topamax? : Women-care

Migraine overview

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A migraine is a headache that can purpose intense throbbing suffering or a pulsing sensation, typically on one facet of the head. It's often accompanied with the aid of nausea, vomiting, and excessive sensitivity to mild and sound. Migraine assaults can closing for hours to days, and the discomfort can be so excessive that it interferes with your each day activities. For some people, a warning symptom viewed as an air of secrecy takes location until now than or with the headache. An air of secrecy can consist of visible disturbances, such as flashes of mild or blind spots, or different disturbances, such as tingling on one thing of the face or in an arm or leg and concern speaking.

My experience-Inconsistent gut problem - was it the Topamax?

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I started on 25mg topiramate in early May - initially it made me feel sicky and woozy, but nothing too bad and it gave me plenty of headache fee days. A full month after starting it I had a terrible episode of diarrhoea out of nowhere - I wasn't ill, I felt fine, everything just suddenly emptied! I put it down to eating too fast on a very empty stomach.

I forgot about it and then it happened again 6 weeks later. I'd been feeling under the weather with a fever anyway so figured it was just that.

I stopped the topiramate 2 weeks ago in favour of candesartan. I had some terrible migraines having skipped it for 3 nights so in desperation I took it for a couple of nights to try and break the cycle. Same again - sudden and inexplicable diarrhoea both following days.

My GP is investigating my stomach cramps, bloated sensation when eating and the weird diarrhoea as potential H. Pylori - I've lost about 9lbs as I have no appetite. I've had IBS for years but this is different. I took topiramate for just over 3 months in total but I hadn't connected the symptoms to it at all - I'm aware that it can cause all these things, but the episodes were so inconsistent/far apart and didn't start for a month (plus I never increased from 25mg) that it didn't make sense.

True side effects start straight away then fade over time, they don't manifest like this...do they? Any similar experiences?

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Migraine Symptoms

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Migraines, which have an effect on children and teens as nicely as adults, can development via 4 stages: prodrome, aura, attack and post-drome. Not everyone who has migraines goes through all stages.

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