Topamax and social inhibition

[BarryLyndon32]

First of all sorry for my language but i do not speak English very well



I have been taking Topamax for 10 years for the chronic headaches . The result has been excellent. For the past two years I can say that the pain is completely gone.



However I have noticed that since I started taking it I was closing in on myself gradually to become what I am today: A person completely asocial, solitary, very quiet and that my greatest wish is to be locked in my house and enjoy my loneliness without anyone bothering me.



10 years ago I was exactly the opposite.



My question is : those who take Topamax have noticed this social inhibition like me ? or it has nothing to do with the topamax?.What doctors can tell me?

I know that Topamax produces a tremendous dullness but i dont know  if to the point of becoming socially isolated as I did.

My doctor and my psychiatrist say it is time to start removing the Topamax but I'm afraid that the pain starts again.



Please i need your opinions : Can a medication change your personality so radically?

Thanks

[BarryLyndon32]

Hello after so long.

I would like to update this because I've experienced some changes.

I have reduced quite all my medication and I feel like slowly back to being the person i used to be

I am currently taking only 50mg of Topamax and I can say that the pain disappeared almost completely and the goal is to be free of this medicine at year end.

Also I have feelings of anger, because I think I've been taking Topamax for over 10 years without any sense. I think I have found what was the source of all my chronic pain and Topamax was not helping me at all.

My anxiety problems, my depression and all my problems started 20 years ago when I started to feel strong incapacitating pain. Walked around my country, visit more than 100 doctors, spend thousands of Euros and the correct diagnosis never came. All were limited to prescribe antidepressants and anxiolytics.

I discovered for myself, investigating several hours a day, which was the cause of my pain and almost by chance I came across it.

My only problem and what has destroyed my life for 20 years has been

"Pterygoid hamulus bursitis". I do not put links that do not know if you can put on this page.

I'm not being treated for this syndrome, I do not want, I do not trust any doctor. I just managed to overcome and control my pain to change my sleeping posture, that easy.

Regarding my social isolation all goes back to its place according'm withdrawing medication. No longer I take Mirtazapine, do not take any anxiolytic, soon finish with Topamax and stay for a while with a small dose of Anafranil because during these years I have developed OCD, although I notice that is slowly disappearing too. I do not know if Topamax never really causes social isolation or if other medication that I have taken, or mixture of all.

I encourage everyone who suffers chronic physical pain to investigate, not to stand still, do not leave everything in the hands of their doctors. I learned to read all my x-rays, see tens of forums, spend days reading anatomy books in libraries  and finally found the root of all my problems.

I still have a long way to go, but I think this time I do not go down the wrong path.

Sorry for the length of all the writing and my English but I can hardly express in this language and I have to constantly turn to the translator.

Best wishes to you all. For anything here I am

[BarryLyndon32]

Hi selmaS !

Thank you very much for your answer.

Topamax is prescribed for blood alcohol, bulimia, addiction to the game ...
My doctors tell me that Topamax might curb my desire to do things.

I have depression and anxiety for years.
I do not know which of these is the cause of my isolation

In 20 years of visiting doctors never matched with the diagnosis of my pain.
I only know that either by chance or not I was relieved Topamax

Thanks again and best wishes for you