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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 639420" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>I have no personal experience, but I have a good friend who is on Topamax for severe migraines (I don't know if dosage would be very different for that than for mood stabilizer.) According to her it is well known 'super model drug'; makes you thin and dumb. I can't say I would notice the 'dumber' effect on her, but she says that she sometimes does feel slower or that her memory isn't quite what it used to be. But she is very able to perform in her cognitively very challenging job, so I guess the actual effects are not too dramatic. Feeling slower and dumber-effect was worse first when she started the medication. She says it either subsided or she just got used to being dumb.</p><p></p><p>Also the appetite effect has lessen for her a bit, but she did lose twenty pounds after starting to take the medication and those pounds have stayed away (she was in the higher part of normal weight when she started, now she is just around the lower limit of normal weight) and she still has to put some effort to make sure she eats enough and has all the nutrition she needs.</p><p></p><p>She has been on Topamax for about two or three years now I think and for her it is worth the side effects due it really lessening the frequency of her migraine attacks. </p><p></p><p>I hope it works for you!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 639420, member: 14557"] I have no personal experience, but I have a good friend who is on Topamax for severe migraines (I don't know if dosage would be very different for that than for mood stabilizer.) According to her it is well known 'super model drug'; makes you thin and dumb. I can't say I would notice the 'dumber' effect on her, but she says that she sometimes does feel slower or that her memory isn't quite what it used to be. But she is very able to perform in her cognitively very challenging job, so I guess the actual effects are not too dramatic. Feeling slower and dumber-effect was worse first when she started the medication. She says it either subsided or she just got used to being dumb. Also the appetite effect has lessen for her a bit, but she did lose twenty pounds after starting to take the medication and those pounds have stayed away (she was in the higher part of normal weight when she started, now she is just around the lower limit of normal weight) and she still has to put some effort to make sure she eats enough and has all the nutrition she needs. She has been on Topamax for about two or three years now I think and for her it is worth the side effects due it really lessening the frequency of her migraine attacks. I hope it works for you! [/QUOTE]
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