In My Head…aches

Hey,

So I tapered up on my dosage of Topamax today. I went up to 200mg (100mg twice a day). I don’t know if it’s just coincidence, but I had a terrible headache ALL DAY (and still have it). I was not expecting it. I don’t know if it’s a side effect of tapering up or if it’s just an unusual day or what, but I sucked it up and lived through the day.

We visited family and friends, and after having lost some weight on the first ten days on Topamax, I was greeted with comments such as “you’ve lost weight,” and “you look sick!” It wasn’t the best thing to hear. I can stomach it though, I’m a big boy.

I had a general feeling of weakness through out the day. I still had the energy to carry out my normal functions and all, but I couldn’t go out and, say, play a game of basketball or run a few miles like I usually could, and I think that was because of the higher dosage of the Topamax. Also, I don’t know if it’s psychological, but tonight I was at the drugstore and I bumped into the someone I knew, but I was totally jumbling up my words as I was trying to speak to him. I couldn’t put together a sentence as my tongue kept getting tied and completely lost. I don’t know if that’s the language side effect I so often hear about of Topamax but maybe I’ll experience more of it, maybe not.

I was also told that according ot my culture’s belief, I’m sleeping in the wrong direction on my bed and I should switch rooms and directions I’m sleeping (I should turn around 180 degrees) so within the next week, I need to figure all of that out. So I guess there are some small changes.

Hopefully the weight loss stops, I’ve been trying to eat more but my appetite is dwindling and I know it. I try to eat, but my mind just doesn’t want it. I look at the food and I try to tell myself to eat but it doesn’t happen. *Sigh* Wish me luck!

-ETH