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Re: PCOS & Topamax
From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 20 Apr 2003 22:26:30 -0500 (CDT)
At Sat, 19 Apr 2003, AD wrote:
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Actually, my daughter who is 19h as been experiencing severe migraines
recently. Her family physician has her on topomax and also after the
first few days she did experience breakthrough bleeding and she is also
on the birth control pill. She is on week 3 and did have her period as
scheduled. I hope the topamax works because the migraines have
interfered with her college schedule. In addition to the topamax, my
daughter is on nausea meedicine because she was throwing up so much from
the migraines that she had to be hospitalized one evening for
dehydration. Good luck,I hope you get some relief.
>Wow...it's been awhile since I've been to this board!! Glad to see
>everyone's still so active here! Question for anyone who may be able to
>help. I'm 29 dx with PCOS 10+ yrs ago. Only ever treated with bcp
>(orthocept). Have also always suffered from Migraines...given Midrin to
>help but found that I could sometimes take Excedrin Migraine & it seemed
>to do the trick. Recenly (4/9/03) experienced a Migrainous stroke which
>landed me in the ER. As a result, was given Tegretol...developed broken
>blood veins all over chest, stomach, etc...something about the way it
>affects the bone marrow. So, neuro placed me on Topamax. I'm on the
>4th day of 25mg. Supposed to work my way up to 100mg over the next 4
>weeks. Anyway, day 3 1/2 (last night) developed some breakthrough
>bleeding...today, we're in full force breakthrough bleeding :-(
>Has anyone here taken Topamax with bcp or anything else with the bcp to
>combat these migraious attacks? And, if so, what other side effects did
>the others have?
>
>Any insight is greatly appreciated!
>Thanks so much!
>Alexis
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