I am taking a break from a relationshiop that has been very good and also tough recently.


Anyone ever been on meds or dated someone on Lexapro and Topamax.
Previously paxil.

She has been dealing with depression and still echoes of a 2 year old divorce.
And the topamax is for migraines but makes her tired.

She was the best girlfriend I ever had... and then finally not the best.


She became distant. Isolated. Incommunicative and sometimes short with me.

We are on break without any fight per se - we have just stopped chatting since a couple weeks ago with me tired of trying and her content to lay low.

Any stories or experience with this?


Help.

Thanks...

Tomamax is NASTY. It screws you up big time. I was prescribed it for migraines and it does make you have a short temper.

Lexapro I tried too for migraines. Anti-depressants you really have to be careful with.

Suggest you do a search on "topamax physician prescribing information" and to the same for Lexapro.

These need to be used with extreme caution.

She went to two neurologists and they both said she could not be med-free because she gets migraines so often and was using some intense valium like stuff when they hit (once a week to ten days)... so, she's dealing with that... alternatives she cannot find.

I cannot get close to her now becasuse she thinks she there's too much chaos post divorce still... but for 1 year it was super.

May not hear from her, but have elected to stay silent... and on it goes...

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Originally Posted by KeepItSimpleStupid

Tomamax is NASTY. It screws you up big time. I was prescribed it for migraines and it does make you have a short temper.

Lexapro I tried too for migraines. Anti-depressants you really have to be careful with.

Suggest you do a search on "topamax physician prescribing information" and to the same for Lexapro.

These need to be used with extreme caution.

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Did it make you tired?

Dopey? She said it was nicknamed "dope-a-max" -

Anything else?


What did you do as an alternative?

Tired: extremely. I was always resting

Dopey? Yes, I forgot to put dopamax in my post. It's accurate.

Short trmper.

I was described as being "out of it" or "in another world" and "oblivious to my surroundings"

Nuurontin 300 mg. Up to 3600 mg/day reduced the intensity. Otherwise narcotic pain killers, a Cerebral blood vessel reducer an anti-anxiety med and ice packs. Each drug has it's purpose. I can define the why and when to use if necessary.

You need to find the trigger. Do you know what it is? Do you nned help in identifying the trigger?

Once a week to 10 days suggests the "weekend headache". It comes on when the normal stress of the week disapears because of the weekend. Does this sound probable?

She does not handle stress well... I mean she is taking lexapro.

Triggers?

Any stress.

Not just weekends...

Lack of sleep and then a workout in the a.m. but can be anything

Anyway - thanks for your input KeepItSimple.

I am a bit in a daze (now like her) and I'm not sure that I can simply say go off the drugs since they are prescribed... who knows...

A friend of mine had migraines off and on her whole life. When she began computer programming it worsened considerably. Now she sees a chiropractor and works out. She said she has to be very careful not to overdo her workouts and focuses mainly on core strength exercise. With this carefully done, nothing skipped, she has been nearly migraine free. She does take Prozac, has done so since the early 90's.

She may need to see the doc asap... if a relationshipp is gone its not good.

Unless she is using them as an excuse.