Topamax and five months

Hi, my 14 year old daughter was prescribed Topamax about 6 months ago due to migrains that started when she had Mono. The mono lasted a good five months and the nuerologist to whom we were referred prescribed Tomamax after nothing else worked.

This morning as she was leaving for school, she said " I will take Aleve twice a day for the rest of my life, the Tomamax has made me stupid and I can't take it anymore!" With that my beautiful, brilliant daughter was out the door.
I am sick that I didn't look into this drug sooner. I found this site and am floored at all the side effects that sound exactly like hers. She has always been an A+ sudent who works hard, she lately has been saying she feels dumb, can't remember things, her knees hurt, her hair is falling out, she can't think, she is depressed etc. I have been downplaying her symtoms and blaming it on the mono. I am outraged at the craziness this drug has obviously caused and my failure to recognize the cause.

My questions now are, can she quit the Topamax immediatly and when, if ever can she expect her cognitive ability to return?

Please tell me the effects are not life long and what my next step should be to help relieve her of these symptoms.

Peace, Becky

I have suffered migraines for five years now, there horrible. I took topamax for the first four years as the doctors experimented with several drugs. After five months into the med I had my first kidney stone and two or three for the next 3 1/2 years. I went to so many doctors and none of them new what was wrong with me. I began searching online on all the medications and found out that topamax causes stones. I can see one here and there but I was having them every other week, and all of them were painful and caused a lot of bleeding. I would like to beat all the doctors and who invented this with a bat over and over again.

I have been on Topamax foe about five months now and it has changed my life! my migraines were so terrible before that I could barley function and took migraine medicationsthree -five times a week. The Topamax has reduced my headaches by about 75% and now an over the counter medication can do the trick if I feel a headache coming on most of the time. Bonus, I lost 30 pounds that I had been hanging on to since my son was born three years ago. I take 100 mg. 2 times a day.