Migraine overview
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-My experience with Topamax (TLDR: it worked until it didn't)
Sharing as it was helpful for me to read others' experiences with Topamax.
My neurologist prescribed Topamax as my first preventive in late August. I ramped up to a 100mg/day dose over September and it worked like a charm in October and November. I went from 15-20 headache days a month to ~4 days a month! That said, I also went on disability leave at work starting in October, which meant I was no longer stressed or staring at screens for hours every day.
Initially, I had mild tingling in my feet and brain fog. The tingling mostly went away, and I stopped noticing the brain fog, which made me think it went away.
In December, I began having headaches again more frequently, and late in the month I got a cold (not covid, unless my negative PCR was wrong) and my health went completely off the rails. I went into a cycle of getting migraines every 2-3 days, which has never happened before. It felt like Topamax had completely stopped working.
I also began to notice some new side effects: thirst and depression. I was feeling abjectly miserable and kept bursting into tears, like I was a high school junior listening to "Creep" and moping about my crush's new girlfriend and not a grown-ass 33-year-old woman who meditates and goes to therapy and exercises on a daily basis. I was chugging so much water that I was waking up every couple of hours during the night to pee (less like a high school junior and more like my dear mother, whose sleep habits I don't want to emulate yet!).
I reached out to my neurologist and we agreed that I would taper off from my 100mg dose quickly, over the course of about 10 days.
I didn't notice any weird side effects while tapering off Topamax, and the side effects I was experiencing from taking it dissipated quickly.
I was shocked to realize how much the brain fog had continued to affect me, even though I had gotten used to it. I feel much clearer-headed, and my husband told me he notices a difference as well. I was relieved that the side effects didn't linger, since I've read some horror stories on Reddit.
I don't know whether the Topamax never worked and it was just being off work that helped me, or if it's normal for Topamax to work and then abruptly stop working, or if the cold I got somehow threw me off-kilter. Anyway, I'm glad there are so many other preventives on the market. I'm trying Propanolol next and eagerly waiting for my insurance to let me take medications that are actually designed for migraines...
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