Weird one symptoms and conditions

I am a 21 year old female and have been on Topamax since October of 2006. I am up to taking 250mgs a day having a constant headache and getting a migraine about every week. I have had such a range of side effects and symptoms that I can't tell the difference nor know where to begin. The most recent is muscle spasms in my eye lid and leg that won't go away. I have spasms infrequently all over, but these have been pretty constant. I also tire very easily though I always get 8 hours of sleep a night. Though those are not always 8 full hours of sleep, because I do have boughts of insomnia. I have also dealt with the intestinal problems to the point of thinking that I had appendicitis. I have had multiple trips to the hospital for abdominal pain and severe migraines. I have had the vision problems - blurred, dizziness, vertigo, and the weird one were my eyes jerk back and forth. I rarely have all at once and they have come and gone throughout the 2 years, but they have come back

I think the most mysterious one of all are the lypomahs - these little painful nodules under the skin that just appeared. They are mostly on my abdomen, but have found them on my chest as well. Any one else heard of this?

I had a Kenalog injection into my knee joint after my orthopedic removed 30cc of fluid from the knee. about 2 hours later, I began to experience pain around the knee joint. Rapidly, over the course of 15 minutes, I went from mild pain to pain so actuate, I could not function. I could not move, speak, or do anything that might move my leg in the tiniest of motions. The pain extended down my calf, and into my foot. After 30 minutes, I was in such acute pain distress, I was transported to the emergency room. It was by far the worst pain I have ever experienced in my life, worse than labor, and even more severe than a disc herniation four years prior to that. I experienced flushing and stomach pains and it took too pain injections to bring it under control. After ruling out a cartilage tear or fold with an MRI, it was determined that I experienced what is known as a steroid flair. I spent the next day resting and recovering from stomach pains. The pain subsided but left my knee in a worsened state than before the injection, although the inflammation went down. Needless to say, I will not be accepting Kenalog injections again.

OK. This is a really weird one. I was taking doxy for a 'suspected' case of Lyme (I won't even go there for this post! Its a whole other story) .I was prescribed 200mgs per day, but all the Lyme patients i spoke with said you had to take a lot more. Just to be "on the safe side" I upped the dosage to 300mgs a day, (the lowest dosage sanctioned by the experienced Lyme docs at ilads.org,) administered 8 hours apart. Four days after upping the dosage I was sitting on the couch when my left wrist felt numb, then my left side of my face momentarily went a little numb. At the same time i got really dizzy and faint. I felt really strange, like everything seemed unreal and glistening. I was rushed to the Er and 4 hours and $3000 worth of tests later (I have a $5000 deductible) I was discharged given the diagnosis of a TIA (mini stroke) meaning all the tests were negative and that's what they guessed. The thing is, I'm only 52, look 44 (objectively) am not overweight, don't smoke , exercise regularly and have low blood pressure. There is no history whatsoever of heart disease in my family. The only risk factor is elevated cholesterol. The point is, I'm a relatively low risk for stroke. My own doctor saw me a few days later. I still was dizzy and out of it. TIA symptons resolve thenselves in 24 hours He was certain I had not had a stroke and thought that all these symptoms could possibly have been caused by aside effect of doxycycline, intracranial hypertension, or in layman's terms, pressure on the brain. Yow...I stopped taking the stuff for a day and a half and felt almost normal. My doc thought i should take one a day and after a couple of days go up to the 200mg suggested dosage, but when I took just one last night, I woke up with similar symptoms, although not quite as pronounced as before. They persisted all day,gradually dropping off.

I have now stopped taking the stuff and am beginning to feel a little better. I have never had a negative reaction to antibiotics before, but after this I will be very reticent to try then again, unless I am dying or something. I am finished with doxy. All in all, a nasty and very expensive experience. (unless of course, I really DID have a TIA!)