Frequent diarrhea symptoms and conditions

I am 25- been taking topamax for the last 2 weeks. I've already lost over 6lbs but have frequent diarrhea. My other side effects are: inability to concentrate and track (very bad as a therapist, poor clients...), irritability, and every carbonated drink is FLAT!!! I will see where this goes from here, if it keeps on its over and i'm done with this.

I was on Desogen for over a year and a half, during which time I had symptoms similar to IBS. Frequent diarrhea, severe intestinal cramps after almost every meal, bloating, weight gain, gas, and subsequent depression and lethargy. I even went to see a GI specialist, who asked if I had recently started taking a new birth control or had any other hormonal changes. At the time I had been taking Desogen for a year, so I didn't connect the two. Now 9 months later I finally got off of Desogen and have had no more IBS symptoms. The doctors I have spoken to since then have no explanation for it, aside from 'hormones can do strange things sometimes'. I don't know if I have been depressed since I have been on Desogen, aside from the anxiety and depression caused by IBS, but I am so glad not to be on it anymore. I hope the symptoms stay gone and I am able to lose the weight I gained while on it.

I am a 27 year old female and have suffered from migraines for 10 years. My neurologist prescribed 12.5 mg for the 1st week, 25 mg the 2nd week, 37.5 mg the 3rd week and 50 mg by the 4th week and then we will re-evaluate on the 6th week. I am on my 2nd day and have experienced a few side effects.....tingling in my arm and lips, frequent diarrhea, carbonated drinks taste flat, trouble typing/spelling and a burning sensation in my eyes. My arm also feels heavy and dead. I am willing to give topamax a try--I can't stand living with my migraines! I think the most bothersome side effect is the inability to type/spell correctly. Hopefully with time, these effects will subside. Wish me luck! (hope I spelled everything correctly!)

Started taking Topamax about a month ago for frequent migraines. I used to take Axert 2 to 4 times a week. If I did it at the beginning of a headache it worked very well, with little or no side affects- just got tired of having so many headaches. Started the Topamax and worked up to 100 mg per day (50 am 50 pm). Seems to control the headaches well, down to maybe one per week and I think less severity.

Side effects so far: 1. Perhaps some memory stuff as described by others (hard time spelling formerly familiar words etc... but doesn't seem real obvious to me (maybe to other!!!). 2. Diet Coke tastes terrible like everyone says!! This one hurts cause I love diet coke. The good news is that I don't notice the effect as much now a the first couple of weeks.
3. I have frequent (emphasis on frequent) diarrhea- like a couple times a day four to five days a week. This one doesn't seem much better. Now there has been some associated weight loss as reported but Im not sure that is due to reduced appetite or daily diarrhea or both. Either way I was glad to loose the ten pounds I needed to loose anyway, just wish I could do it without spending so much time in the bathroom.
Have not had any of the tingling in the hands or fingers that others have reported.

I had Mirena placed in July '08 after the birth of my 3rd child. My husband and I thought it was a good idea since I was returning to school to get my Masters. The experience having it put in was one of the most horrible yet funny ones in my 32 years for a number of reasons, but that is another whole story! I haven't had my period even once since having the IUD inserted. Yay for me--or so I thought. I have been attributing a lot of the side effects I have to the stress of being a full-time mom of 3, a wife, and a student who lives away from her family during the week and traveling home on the weekends. I'm sure the fatigue I feel has a little bit to do with all of that, however, I have been able to handle less sleep than most for my whole life! This extreme fatigue I feel every day is worse than the fatigue I had when I was pregnant and a full-time nurse in a very busy ICU and traveling nearly 150 miles to and from work daily! I constantly feel as if I have menstrual cramps, but never get a period, I have extremely tender breasts day after day, headaches, and frequent diarrhea that I never experienced prior to having Mirena placed. I've been a little nervous about the fact that I have absolutely NO sex drive either--this is not usually the case--I love the intimacy that my husband and I used to share. How frustrating for him, and me, as well! I didn't realize that there are so many issues with Mirena until recently! My sister also has one and has some extremely strange things going on ever since placement of it. My husband and I recently decided that we would like to try to add one more child to our family, and I plan to make an appointment to have Mirena removed as soon as my schedule allows. Even without having made this decision, knowing what I know now, I would do the same thing. I am also going to encourage my sister to have hers removed as well. When she started having the symptoms she is having, we suspected Mirena, but her doctor basically told her she was nuts! Bye bye Mirena for this chicky! I have too much of my life to live to have this little nuisance hanging around!

Question about Omeprazole - I have frequent diarrhea, severe burning
sensation in the abdomen with shooting pains. Have been in the hospital
twice for the severe, shooting abdominal pain.
Anybody else have these symptoms on an almost daily basis?
I take 40mg/day. Thanks. B.

I was put on Lipitor 10 mg. last Spring about 8 mos. ago. I have never taken medications/drugs other than aspirin or Motrin or antihistamines. Since that time I have had a strange combination of unexplained symptoms arise throughout the months. These sx's included: Headaches, stiff neck and severe neck pain, acute shoulder pain, hip pains, joint pains, severe knee pain (tendon or Ligament problems?) and loss of movement, hair loss, jaw pain and some memory confusion. Initially, I had severe HA's for several months, but attributed them to stress, however, I had never experienced HA's as a common occurrence. Then we went away to our Maui house to get away from stress, HA's continued, along with leg and shoulder pains. At the same time, I started noticing several strands of hair falling out if lightly touched my hair to move it out of my face. The pains seemed to move around my body at different times, for no apparent reason. I am used to daily exercise, living in CO in the mountains @ high altitude, not usually having muscle soreness. Now, given my leg and knee pains have gotten so bad, I cannot hike and have difficulty climbing my stairs. Skiing is out. Snorkeling caused leg cramps. No explained reason for having muscle tenderness or soreness without my usual exercise at present time. When the pain leaves one area it tends to arise in a different part of my body. At the present time, my hair loss has subsided, as also my jaw pain and headaches. However, my leg pains and knee pains are so acute (for no apparent reason) it is impossible to exercise and difficult to walk that I looked up adverse reactions to Lipitor, finding all my sx's most probably might be attributed to this drug. Partially my fault for not looking up RX information prior, especially being a medical professional for many years. My husband kept throwing away the info when purchasing the RX. Too many unexplained symptoms, I decided to obtain the drug info. myself. I tended to make excuses for months, such as: I am getting older, under stress, must be an old injury, not exercising properly, need PT therapy etc.... I am dc/ing the drug immediately and have an appt. with my MD on 1/5/09 to discuss.

One week post removal:
first two days frequent diarrhea, I believe due to water retention being released, NO pimples, day 4 heavy bleeding with large clots, still spotting, bloated stomach gone, breast not heavy, mood 100% improved!