I have been a migraine sufferer for over 13 years and have run th...

Take my advise get off this Topamax as soon as possible. If you are already getting tingling in the face and numbness it gets worse. I just spent last week in the hospital with a mini-stroke and I am a 55 healthy independent woman with migraines whom is scared to death, This stuff needs to be off the market. Would love to chat with you and tell you all the symptoms I have and am still having. Pam

Thanks for the reply. I was on the medicine for a total of 2 1/2 weeks before I realized that I would rather have a migraine that deal with Topamax. Everything came to a head the day I "lost the music." I have played the piano since I was 6 years old (I'm in my 30s). One day at church, after playing for 2 hours, I put a piece of familiar music in front of me and it was like I had never seen music before in my life. There were 2 sharps, but I didn't know what that was supposed to mean to me. The little dots on the lines intending to be music meant nothing. I had to call the chorister over and ask her to put my fingers on the notes to start me off. She knew I wasn't kidding because I had just told her I was having issues with my brain. I proceeded to butcher the song for about 4 measures, because although I could remember the timing and tempo of the song, I couldn't read the music. Then, SNAP, it came back. How utterly embarrassing. I play the piano VERY well, but I humiliated myself that day because the music just left me. I always said that if the medicine made me any stupider that I was getting off. So, I did. Migraines are back (not that they were gone while on the Topamax) and I'm awaiting an appointment with the neurologist. I'll take the headaches any day over losing the music!