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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 402649" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I took topomax on two different occasions. The first time I was on it for about 18 months for migraines and depression. It was great but there were some side effects. Drowsiness was NOT one of them. It did help depression somewhat, but more as a boost to the prozac I was on than anything it did alone. I did have problems with what I think is called aphasia. I would know what I wanted to say but could not say (or type or write) the word I wanted. I cannot imagine being a child, esp one learning vocabulary, and dealing iwth this problem. Watch her for it. I will say that it took about a month to see any effect on the depression and at least 2 weeks to see ANY effects. It was awesome for weight though. I had to stop it because I just couldn't afford it. A couple years later we tried it again and I maxed out the dosage and still didn't get enough help with the migraines. I also couldn't tolerate the word recall problem. The word recall problem didn't show up until I was on a significant amount of it, at least 2 increases in dosage.</p><p> </p><p>As for blood pressure medications, they are MUCH more likely to cause drowsiness. Usually your body will take 1-3 weeks to adjust to this and then it won't be a problem, but if it causes a lot of problems with drowsiness or sleeping too much then the dose shoudl be lowered and increased much more slowly. Often docs increase medications WAY too fast, either with too big a jump in the amount or too frequent jumps. I learned with Jess that sometimes the medication is fine but you have to go super slow (according to the doctor's schedules) or they cause problems that could be avoided. Jess had one medication that we increased one tiny jump a month and it took over 6 mos to do any significant increases. when it worked, it worked well, but when it went up too fast it was a real problem in many ways.</p><p> </p><p>For medications that are NOT time released I often start with half of whatever the doctor thinks is a 'low' dose and take longer between increases than the docs say. Can't do that with time release medications though.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) is one autism spectrum disorder. I get confused with the abbreviation Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) because some seem to mean Asperger's, which is another autism spectrum disorder. Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) is often used when a child doesn't fit into any of the other categories of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)'s neatly. I know kids who are low functioning and have the Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) diagnosis and those who are very very high functioning and have it also. I also know kids who hit the milestones right on target and have Asperger's (Wiz is one) or other various ASDs. The neuropsychologist we have seen says that the researchers are now thinking that adhd is an autism spectrum disorder too, though he is the only one I have heard say it. He had just come from a conference on autism and adhd when he told us this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 402649, member: 1233"] I took topomax on two different occasions. The first time I was on it for about 18 months for migraines and depression. It was great but there were some side effects. Drowsiness was NOT one of them. It did help depression somewhat, but more as a boost to the prozac I was on than anything it did alone. I did have problems with what I think is called aphasia. I would know what I wanted to say but could not say (or type or write) the word I wanted. I cannot imagine being a child, esp one learning vocabulary, and dealing iwth this problem. Watch her for it. I will say that it took about a month to see any effect on the depression and at least 2 weeks to see ANY effects. It was awesome for weight though. I had to stop it because I just couldn't afford it. A couple years later we tried it again and I maxed out the dosage and still didn't get enough help with the migraines. I also couldn't tolerate the word recall problem. The word recall problem didn't show up until I was on a significant amount of it, at least 2 increases in dosage. As for blood pressure medications, they are MUCH more likely to cause drowsiness. Usually your body will take 1-3 weeks to adjust to this and then it won't be a problem, but if it causes a lot of problems with drowsiness or sleeping too much then the dose shoudl be lowered and increased much more slowly. Often docs increase medications WAY too fast, either with too big a jump in the amount or too frequent jumps. I learned with Jess that sometimes the medication is fine but you have to go super slow (according to the doctor's schedules) or they cause problems that could be avoided. Jess had one medication that we increased one tiny jump a month and it took over 6 mos to do any significant increases. when it worked, it worked well, but when it went up too fast it was a real problem in many ways. For medications that are NOT time released I often start with half of whatever the doctor thinks is a 'low' dose and take longer between increases than the docs say. Can't do that with time release medications though. Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) is one autism spectrum disorder. I get confused with the abbreviation Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) because some seem to mean Asperger's, which is another autism spectrum disorder. Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) is often used when a child doesn't fit into any of the other categories of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)'s neatly. I know kids who are low functioning and have the Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) diagnosis and those who are very very high functioning and have it also. I also know kids who hit the milestones right on target and have Asperger's (Wiz is one) or other various ASDs. The neuropsychologist we have seen says that the researchers are now thinking that adhd is an autism spectrum disorder too, though he is the only one I have heard say it. He had just come from a conference on autism and adhd when he told us this. [/QUOTE]
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