Hi Guys
Its December already. Time just keeps ticking away doesn't it. Sorry I have been rather quite this past 2 months but I really have had nothing to report.No major changes in my dizziness and vertigo. Still feeling the same old on a daily basis. Perhaps a little worse for the past couple of weeks. More frequent headaches. Anyway expect more insight into my dizzy existence starting next week as I finally stop my Gabapentin medication after 4.5 years. Instead I am going to be trying a medication called Topiramate along side my Nortriptyline. This changeover has seemed to take forever in part because I have been nervous to reduce the Gabapentin in fear of side effects and worsening of my vertigo but I am down to 300mg a day and have been for the last month. Next week I stop it and start 25mg of Topiramate a day and then increase that dosage to 50mg daily the following week. I am nervous and excited,optimistic and pessimistic about the whole thing.Who knows maybe it'll be a game changer. The idea is to start on a low dosage and then increase to maximum dosage overtime,whatever that is?
So expect more of me and my dizzy journey these following weeks and months as I start this new treatment.
UPDATE: I have not started the Topiramate(Topamax) yet. I am going to wait till after Christmas. I just do not want any new side effects over the festive period. I will be back. Merry Christmas guys
Keep pushing on guys
Swimmyhead
sad to see that your on topiramate and gabapentin thats got sdome side effects. bro i hope you get better i feel you
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Thanks mate. It's been tough, I won't lie. Thankfully I have just stopped taking all of my medications as they didn't help. I'm still dizzy but I'm glad to be off of them especially the Topiramate. Thanks again.
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