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 Apr 18, 2008 @ 15:41:41 | #18 | wingsy
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Join Date: Apr 2008 | Quote:
My DMIL takes Topamax and has described her side effects to me as constant tingling feelings in her hands and feet, and sodas always taste flat to her. She said you tend to get used to the tingling after a while but I can't imagine how! Does it affect you this way?
When I first started Topamax, I had the tingling in my hands and feet, then when they increased my dosage, it got worse. But it actually went away after about 4 weeks. And it might not have been that long. I don't have any problems with sodas tasting flat or anything like that. I had actually asked my doctor to increase my Topamax a few months back b/c I was getting migraines EVERY DAY and I was ready to just die! (I think we talked about that by e-mail...)
He decided not to increase the Topamax b/c if he did, I would have to have my renal functions tested every 30-60 days instead of every 6 months to make sure it wasn't damaging my kidney. He gave me the Axert to get rid of migraines if I get them, but I've only taken it like 8 times in 2 months. Once I got rid of that first one, I haven't had anymore doozies!
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| Apr 18, 2008 @ 16:41:50 | #30 | drchaos
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30/M/Nashville, Tennessee
Join Date: Apr 2008 | Well perhaps it is not a chiropractic problem. However, it always concerns me
when people will have a failed therapy with a neurologist but they will still try
another neurologist, but if someone has a failed therapy with a chiropractor,
they never try chiropractic again with a different chiropractor. I'm just saying
that it is possible that it might not have been a problem with the method of
chiropractic, but rather a problem with how it was applied.
Finally, if the chiropractic approach is bull, then why are there such good
results with chiropractic care more often than not. Your problem could
possibly be untreatable by chiropractic, thus the negative result, or you could
have had a poor application of chiropractic (did you only get treated 1x, did
you follow the doc's recommendations?). Regardless, to call something bull
and influence others from a deviation from the norm (as research can attest
to) is not a fair assessment. Tell people that it didn't work for you or that you
don't know if it worked for you since you might not have followed all the
recommendations (I don't know and I'm not accusing, just throwing out
possibilities), but don't tell people that chiropractic is full of bull and
insinuate that we're just guessing at what we do.
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