Side Effects....

So, some of you may know that I get terrible headaches, daily. So bad that its unusual for me to not have a headache. With this I get dizzy spells as well as pressure in my sinuses and such. Something some of you do not know, I do not go to the um...potty...normal. Like, once a week if I am lucky. I also sweat like a man, like a man playing football in the tropics. Yes, its bad. These are things I would typically not tell even some of my closest friends, much less the Internet world.

No worries readers, I have been visiting the doctor and getting this checked out. I do have a neurologist that I have been seeing about this and she has been running some tests. All of the tests so far have come back fine, and believe it or not I have very healthy brain tissue. Ha, of course that doesn't give me much info about the potty problem though, so I plan to talk to my regular doctor on my next visit.

Well, my doctor prescribed Topomax which treats Epilepsy and Migraines. It turns out all of it is related to the constant headaches, and she is going to do more tests to find out what is causing the headaches. Until then we are trying the Topomax, which she said I am a really good candidate for because I have a headache more than I do not have a headache, and she said it is not good to be taking things like Tylenol or Advil and stuff as often as I am. So, she sent me with the prescription and I was off to the pharmacy.

Now, I am someone who has never been on any kind of medicine like this before and to be honest I was a little nervous, so I did some research. The doctor said its very safe and not addictive, but I still wanted to look for myself. So, online I found a few site with all kinds of good information. It is supposed to prevent the headaches not make them go away when you already have them, which is WONDERFUL!!! It can also cause weight loss, how sad...ha!...and if you experience any kind of eye pain or blurred vision and don't have it treated you might go blind. So, you may be thinking, hm..that sounds sketchy, well let me remind you I DO NOT POOP!

I get home, take the first little tiny pill, not really expecting to have results any time soon. The doctor told me that I probably still have headaches for a month or so and she wanted me to go about 3-4 months without any headache and she would gradually take me off of it so it would be like a 5-6 month process, so again, I was not expecting to see any results this soon. Well, I started feeling this weird feeling in my tummy, and I assume its just a coincidence. Over the next 48 hours though I was proven wrong, eight times....that's like 2 months worth for me. Its been the best 48 hours of my life.

In addition to the regular bathroom visits I have been making I also forgot to wear deodorant yesterday to work. Now, for those of you VERY close to me you know that this is a big huge no no for me. The average person can go like 2-3 hours without deodorant and then make a quick run to the bathroom and wipe the pits and be ok, not me. I can go like 20 minutes and then you do not want to be within 20 feet of me. I can wear deodorant and still by the middle of the day need to make a pit stop and reapply. So, I forgot the deodorant, and I kind of freaked out, then was running a little late for work and forgot that I forgot deodorant and didn't remember till later. So, I'm sitting at work feeling bad for Tenesha, who sits next to me, and wondering how I smell, when I remember the last thing I read on my pamphlet, decreased sweating, "It couldn't be!" I though, "I could never be THAT lucky!" That's when I did a pit check, and I got nothing, nothing but laundry detergent. All day I kept doing it, you know, the same check you see on those deodorant commercials where the girl is trying to be inconspicuous but you still notice because its a commercial, and all day I didn't smell anything. So at the end of the day I brought in the opinion of a friend, Annie, from the previous blog (now I can only guess this is a reliable source because she did read the blog and she knows it was about her so we will see) and had her check, she said I smelled lovely, and Amanda the baby sitter said I smelled like laundry detergent. Which are things no one has ever said to me before, things I have never asked someone before.

I will say there have been some negative to this medicine. For one I work in a call center and I will forget what I am saying halfway through what I am saying. The other day I forgot the word popular, and I couldn't remember it, not until I was driving to see my brother for his birthday that night. I also was having a super yummy drink the other night, peach schnapps and orange juice, a fuzzy navel as most would call it, well two sips into this super delicious drink i started getting really dizzy and my eyes started going cross eyed, so considering I have not experienced this since then I am just assuming I will not be drinking until I am off of Topomax. But that's ok, I can have koolade I guess. Also, and this could be the worse part....Juan picked me up for lunch today, we decided to go to Taco Bell, halfway there I changed my mind, and we decided on KFC, and I changed my mind again and we finally went to Burger King, but that wasn't the bad part, even though loss of appetite is a side effect that I have yet to experience. The worse part is that when I ordered my Coke, and I tasted it I was disgusted...I had Juan taste it, come to find out it was Dr. Pepper, which I love, its supper yummy, but it tasted like poooooooo....so I tasted his Coke, it also tasted like pooooo....as did the Mt. Dew we have at home....All tastes like poooooo.....

So, I have come to a conclusion with this medicine. It treats migraines and Epilepsy. One of the non label treatments (which means they can prescribe it for something because it is a very common side effect) is weight loss for people who are obese. Well, I think this medicine is a laxative, I think it changes you taste buds also so that you are not hungry and do not like soda. So this makes you poop out what little bit of food you do eat, and you no longer drink soda so you lose weight. Now because you no longer drink soda you probably over time stop getting migraines and because of the less caffeine intake you could stop having seizures. I get it. I think the reason you get dizzy is because you stop eating and poop so much that you have no nutrients in you and you almost faint. So I am on to you makers of Topomax, I get what you are doing....targeting those of us who suffer from constant weight gain, headaches, sweatyness, and you take it all away.....

But that's ok, I accept it, and I will use your means of headachelessness, forgetingwordness, non sweating, weight loss...I take it and accept it!