Anyone else using Adipex and Topamax?

Topamax has horrible side affects. It causes permanent hair loss in children. I would never let a child use this drug.

Yes I lost a lot of hair at first but it did level out after a year. When I would take a shower and run my hand through my hair it would come out in clumps.

I am on Adipex, 37.5 mg, and my dr. put me on Topamax to 'prep' me for the Qysimia when it's released. I am almost at the end of my 3rd month on Adipex, and that will be the end of my prescription. It has definitely given me the tools to learn how to eat and what to eat, and has been a lifesaver for me. Other than dry mouth, which there's nothing wrong with, I've had no side effects at all.

Now here comes the Topamax. She started me on 25mg for a week. Made it thru that ok. Tuesday I started 50mg. By Thursday, diarrhea set in bigtime, as well as that 'brain fog' feeling. I did not take it last night and I think Thursday was my last time. I did speak to the pharmacist and she told me this will pass eventually. Well guess what? I don't want any part of it. No sooner do I eat something, I'm in the bathroom 15 minutes later. I've been on a diet of applesauce and bananas for 3 days now.

Before any of those other lovely side effects kick in, the Topamax is going in the garbage. I feel I have the tools now to continue the healthy eating and working out that I've been doing for the past 3 months.

I sure hope you find success, and please be careful

my cousin was taking adipex and she droped 20lbs.
got back into her old jeans..

then bam she stoped taking it and she put back on the weight plus some!

I would not recommen Adipex!! I used it a couple of years ago along with diet and excersize. The weight comes off fast but comes back fast when you stop taking them, and you can't take them forever.

I don't understand how if you're dieting and exercising you would gain all the weight back....

I currently take Adipex and Topamax. I have been on Adipex on and off for a few years. My doctor gave me Topamax
after she returned from some conferences at the Cleveland Clinic a few years ago. I don't think I have encountered any
of the side effects the others have mentioned here. Obviously, thats just me, and everyone is different. My only problem
with Topamax is that I kept forgetting to take it. I just would forget to take the pill since I was to take it at a different time than
my others. I pretty much left it alone and just took the Adipex. Good results with Adipex. It really does work but you develop
a resistance to it and have to get off of it for a while. It does still work again when you go back on it, at least it does for me.

I recently started using a higher doseage of Topamax, 50 mg. and found in conjuction with Adipex 37.5, it seems to do
some good. Still no side effects but I guess I am the lucky one in that respect.

It is important to have periodic checks of your heart valves to make sure there is no damage being done by the Adipex.
I will get an Echo the next time I go in to see her in 2 months.

Hope this helps.

Dan

I used Adipex a few years ago to lose 40 lbs without exercise. For the first 30 days I took one a day. The second prescription I took one every two days and the third every three days (for a total of 6 months) to wean off and minimize the side effects of going off the drug and to help ease the transition to managing eating habits without it.

I had the ususal dry mouth and headaches but I also had some pretty severe constipation with it. To combat it I upped water intake to 12-15 cups a day and ate a minimum of 5-6 servings of fruit (to include a ruby red grapefruit) and 5-6 servings of vegetables every day. This was met with great success and also is the basis of how I target my diet today. If I would have done anything different back then it would have been to add more protein to my diet, use MFP to track my metrics, and add exercise.

After coming off the Adipex I experienced depression for quite awhile which I'm sure aided in me putting I put 30lbs back on. In June I found the resolve to use what I learned on the Adipex to exercise (via a trainer) and use MFP for tracking to lose 40lb.

I am on 400mg of Wellbutrin, 50mg of Topamax, and Adipex.... My body is trying to adjust to everything... I just started them all at the same time so hopefully I get good results. As soon as I started the Topamax, my memory started to go blank but I think the wellbutrin is starting to take over and fix my concentration.

I love Topamax. I'm taking it as a mood stabilizer and to counteract the appetite stimulant properties of other medications I take. Before starting the Topamax I was hungry all the time, I could eat a huge meal and my body would be stuffed but my brain was still telling me I was hungry, and I was having horrible sugar cravings all the time. No matter how hard I tried to eat healthy and exercise I just couldn't control my eating and I kept gaining weight. Since starting the Topamax I've lost 17 pounds in 5 months - a nice healthy weight loss that is sustainable. The only side effect I've had is the pins and needles feeling in my feet but it's just a nuisance, no big deal at all.

Thanks for the last few post that's exactly what I was looking for when I posted on here! Good to hear you are all having good results.

I hate to say it, and I may be totally off-base, but it sounds to me like all you wanted to hear was the good stuff, not the bad...

I just started topomax for headaches, and I'm sticking with it because it's this or brain surgery (long story), but I'm gonna have to really fight the appetite suppressant side effect of it. That's actually why I downloaded the app and found this board. I'm on the other end of the spectrum and trying to gain weight. I've always been small but healthy, then had some health issues, got super anemic and needed 4 blood transfusions, slowly bounced back from it, then something started to slowly but surely take my appetite away....wasn't the topomax, I just barely started that. FInally narrowed it down the other day. I think it's my depo provera shot! Yes it usually gets blamed for ADDING weight, but it can cause people to LOSE weight, too. It works like a charm for me for certain things, so I'm not going off of it, just doing my best to work around it. Same with topomax.

Also curious if anyone else has had the other side effect my neurologist told me to watch out for with topomax - speech and language issues. It only happened a few times the first week I started taking it. I looked up the specifics after the first few times I thought it had happened. Apparently you'll stumble over a word like you just can't remember the right one anymore, no matter how common the word was. That's exactly what happens. Right in the middle of a sentence, total senior moment, what the hell was I just saying, why can't I remember this completely boring and routine word?!!! Glad that side effect didn't stick around. I had the tingling happen once after I first took it, not anymore, and I'm up to 3 at night (so, 75mg). He wants me at 100mg, max. He doesn't go over more than that for headache treatments.

I started taking this combo 9 months ago I have lost 118 lbs so far. I thank god they came up with the combo because I can't exercise heavily I have had 2 back surgeries and damaged muscles and nerves throughout my whole body I definitely recommend this to anyone who wants to lose weight. With this combo it also comes off very fast I took the Adipex by itself and yes it works well alone but adding the Topamax gives it a major butt kick. Well GOOD LUCK! To all who is taking or just started and anyone who is thinking about it DO IT MAKE SURE YOUR IN GOOD HEALTH OF COURSE

I took Topamax for seizures, it is also prescribed for migraines. Topamax has some pretty rare side effects that are awfully gnarley. But ... The most common side effect of it is weight loss.

I dropped 14 pound during pregnancy on that RX.

Good luck to you!

Your doctor put you on Topamax while you were pregnant?!

I take both for the same reason. The new drug qsymia insurance will not cover so my doctor put me on what the drug consists of which is topamax and adipex. I'm doing great on it! Down 18lbs so far. Topamax is used for migraines also but a side effect is weight loss, which is why some people who can't tolerate Adipex may be put just on Topamax.