Topamax is bad, mmkay?

After telling my Doc in April that my migraines weren't really that bad, I was gifted with a 2 week migraine cluster that was not PMS related. I conceded defeat, went in, and asked for something to manage them. I also had another sinus infection.

My third day on Topamax, I took one and then went to Sara's Scrappin' for Arthritis benefit crop. I'd gotten on I35 and suddenly felt dizzy. I'd neglected to read the bottle, we'd gone over side effects before it was prescribed.

I made it to Scrapbook Haus and I was out of it for the first few hours. Yeah, I got some scrappin' done, but I looked a bit like a zombie. Everyone was notified that I was on Topamax, and I was also warned that it could be horrible.

Little did I know how horrible it would be.

I made it through the day of scrapping. I think I got 9 pages done? Considering the fact I am a slow scrapper and tend to socialize a bit it was enough for me. I also won one of the grand prizes - a free weekend retreat in July. I'll be leaving the laptop at home and it'll be Sara, 20something other scrappers, me, and my photos. It'll be nice to "unplug" from everything for a weekend.

But I digress.

If it was a Topamax symptom, I had it, and I had it bad. By Sunday my face was tingling up a storm and actually felt like it was sunburned...without a burn. I was crazy irritable. My insomnia...it actually got worse. I had no appetite - I ate only b/c I knew I needed to. I was bone tired. So horribly tired. I could barely motivate myself to get out of bed - and then I'd spent the day on the couch. Horrible tired, but unable to sleep.

And then there was the brain fog. Putting a sentance together took a lot of work. I occaisionally have trouble finding the right word for things - much worse. I could concentrate on nothing.

I gave it two weeks. Things were backing up here - I hadn't done any cleaning. I'm usually a pest on Facebook - people started sending me messages asking me where I was. I'd had PMs to answer, but just couldn't be bothered to do it at all.

Horrible, evil stuff. I went back in to see the doc (I had another infection of some sort, too) and I was taken off of it. 24 hours later, my brain started to function. I've been on another migraine med, but it doesn't seem to be working. At least my brain works. :D

We've had some happy thunderstorms the past day. I love thunderstorms. Don't see enough of them here. There's nothing like the flash of light and the rumble of thunder while listening to the rain fall.