Topamax (topiramate): “This is a fantastic medication. My sex drive is greatly diminished. Might ask your doc if … You are like babies to prudish dishonesty Topamax And Wellbutrin For Bipolar and really I often. But I will discuss it again here s you can compare it to Wellbutrin. Dr. lowered my dosage and has lowered again since and I am only on 50 mg. Well....he's a long story....I'm currently leaving him...you should hear what how he ###$ up w/ my daughter....I just had to take her back to our new dr. yesterday...oh yeah...she doesn't have just a minor cold...SHE HAS pnemonia.....anyway....trying not to stray topic here....when did you take your topamax...morning or evening? When I used to go through the nurse practioner...she gave me endless samples....she also bounced me from one diagnosis to the next. Great little pill but I don't care for the fog! haha!
Even when I was on topamax. Treating Bipolar with Wellbutrin.
Being diagnosed bi-polar for at least 7 years now...I have been on Topamx as a mood stablizer...which works great by the way.
As with many medications, there are pros and cons to treating bipolar with Wellbutrin. As soon as I switched to taking it in the evening ...night and day difference. The day I was prescribed it and started taking it was nothing short of a miracle.
No great loss at all (except the rare occasion when we have pizza; it just isn't the same without a coke.) The weight loss has been a result of a lack of appetite. No driving after that. Dr. told me if I ever heard of Topamax being reffered to as "dopamax".
On just bupropion and Lamictal I was suicidal and cried everyday like you.
I had lost enough weight and was still on a dosage for someone that weighed more. ( Sorry, I wouldn't mention that, but you talk abut sex a lot so I figure it is really important to you.) It makes you cloudy or feeling dopey and said I would notice a difference in just a week or less. I take Bupropion (Wellbutrin) for helping with depression/overeating. I can't speak for the Wellbutrin but the Topamax is going to carry significant ther side effects beside weight loss, which we have discussed before in one if your other threads. Powered by vBulletin® Copyright © 2000 - 2020, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. Caffeinated drinks are no longer able to be consumed, as the topamax is some sort of partial anhydrase inhibitor othat makes the caffeinated drinks taste absolutely horrible. Psych Central is the leading mental health website, overseen by mental health professionals since 1995. I take Latuda for bipolar depression. I had never heard of anything like it before. I'm on 100 mg per day of topamax and take it to counteract the severe migraines I get from lamictal.
I'm on 100 mg per day of topamax and take it to counteract the severe migraines I get from lamictal. Angel , they gave me samples, can you get samples where you live? They have them in the back room shhhhh, don;t tell em I told ya.
yes, that is a advice I take all mine at niight so I don't feel woozey or whackey thru the day.
After losing the 70 pounds my dosage had only reduced to 150 mg over time. Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 15 guestsBipolar Disorder message board, open discussion, and online support group.
Topamax isn’t approved to treat depression or bipolar disorder with depression, but it may be helpful for people who have not found relief with other mood-stabilizing drugs. There is something almost too good to be true about an antidepressant that can improve sex drive and assist weight loss!