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Ive taken both. I can say the welbutrin is ok...but the topamax...I would SERIOUSLY get a second opinion. I was on topamax for nearly 2 years for the treatment of bi-polar disorder. It worked..but not without a price. I started to forget simple words, mumble and lost my thought pattern. I couldn't hold a simple conversation because I wasn't able to think correctly. Then at night when I was trying to sleep I would get these horrible patterns in my head that nearly drove me more insane than I previously was (lol). I also got tingling in my head, extremities ect. Sometimes my tongue would itch as well. I told my doctor, and he reported it, but not without saying "ive never heard of that happening" I still haven't fully recovered from the drug. My vocabulary is slowly comming back.. I talked to a friend who was on it, and It did nearly the same things to her. The two of us were on it simultaniously, and when we would do something stupid, my partner would say "forgive them, theyre the topie twins" Seriously, stray from this medication..

If you have been taking it for awhile, getting off of it is hell.. Just taper off slowly.

It really ticks me off theyre still prescribing this drug. I was one of the inital testers for it, before it became the weight loss drug..Nearly every person taking it reported negative side effects that greatly outweighed the positive ones, and this was only at my clinic! I can't imagine how it did nationwide.

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In the Morning I have to take 2 vicodan (cut in half), and a ms contin and a prednisone and a gliphzide (spell) ....

Thats this many pills: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

I use as little juice as I can to take them.. and I always get the funny feeling in my chest. Sometimes I have to try a few times to swallow..

I must call these "breakfast"......... what else can I do? I have to be able to get out of bed in the AM.

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