# Don't be scared of Topamax!
**URL:** https://mvertigo.org/t/dont-be-scared-of-topamax/4671
**Category:** VM/MAV
**Created:** [August 30, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://mvertigo.org/t/dont-be-scared-of-topamax/4671 "2012-08-30T20:48:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@ichbindarren](https://mvertigo.org/u/ichbindarren)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://mvertigo.org/t/dont-be-scared-of-topamax/4671/21 "2012-09-03T18:18:10Z")
This is great news! Im AMAZED to hear that it has already helped you after only 1 week AND at a small dose. I look forward to seeing what more time and dose will do!
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### Author:  [@dizzykylie](https://mvertigo.org/u/dizzykylie)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://mvertigo.org/t/dont-be-scared-of-topamax/4671/22 "2012-09-04T02:01:41Z")
What fantastic news Elisha… you just made my day! Being so frustratingly med sensitive myself I have been following your progress with much interest. Topamax is on top of my list of meds to try. I have a script in my hot little hands now. I am med free at the moment while I wait to have VFT’s done in next couple of weeks.
Stay well and get out there and enjoy life 😃
Kylie
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### Author:  [@elishat27](https://mvertigo.org/u/elishat27)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://mvertigo.org/t/dont-be-scared-of-topamax/4671/23 "2012-09-11T13:27:47Z")
Meredith-My symptoms are very much like Jamie’s, with a MdDS like rocking. Although I have also had the spinning vertigo as well. The rocking had been the main problem for the past year and a half.
Salem-I’ve thought of you so often over the past few months wondering how you are as we have so much in common. I was so relieved to read your post and see that you feel better. Is topa helping the rocking as well?
Kylie-I’m always so happy to hear from you and your cute pic always makes me smile :). Yes, go get that Topa script filled so you can get better. I hope this drug works wonders for you. Like I said in my post, it’s not an easy one to get on but it has really paid off for me. Not ready to write a Success Story yet but maybe one day soon!
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### Author:  [@JamieH](https://mvertigo.org/u/JamieH)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2012, 2:09pm UTC](https://mvertigo.org/t/dont-be-scared-of-topamax/4671/24 "2012-09-11T14:09:55Z")
Elisha I’m glad to hear you are feeling better. There is no question in my mind that Topamax seems to help out a lot of people for whom rocking is their main symptom. Obviously it doesn’t help everyone, but for a condition where everything is hit and miss, Topamax seems to help out people on this board with the rocking sensation too often for it to be random chance.
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### Author:  [@elishat27](https://mvertigo.org/u/elishat27)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2012, 5:00pm UTC](https://mvertigo.org/t/dont-be-scared-of-topamax/4671/25 "2012-09-11T17:00:19Z")
Touche Jamie! I couldn’t agree more, def. not random. I read your success story! That’s amazing! So glad to hear you have your life back.
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### Author:  [@KathleenW](https://mvertigo.org/u/KathleenW)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://mvertigo.org/t/dont-be-scared-of-topamax/4671/26 "2012-09-12T14:59:53Z")
I described my symptoms to my doc’s as feeling as tho I am standing on a canoe. If that isn’t rocking I don’t know what is!! Hopefully that means Topamax will be the one for me; right now I am still in the first week & of course feel icky. Will hang in there mostly because of what I have read here on this site!
Kathleen
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### Author:  [@JamieH](https://mvertigo.org/u/JamieH)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2012, 4:45pm UTC](https://mvertigo.org/t/dont-be-scared-of-topamax/4671/27 "2012-09-12T16:45:21Z")
For me, the best description is that the feeling was very similar to being on a boat. At it’s worst, it was like being on the deck of a boat that was in a big storm. So I guess standing on a canoe could be the same. I don’t spend much (any!) time on canoes so I’m not sure!
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### Author:  [@KathleenW](https://mvertigo.org/u/KathleenW)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://mvertigo.org/t/dont-be-scared-of-topamax/4671/28 "2012-09-12T18:32:59Z")
Well today is Day 6, and I just went up the stairs outside with the trash, and didn’t have to hang on to the hand rail so that is improvement! It has been a rare day that I have been able to do that in the last 9 months, and I have just finished a round with food poisoning so double points for Topamax!! Cross fingers, I up my dose tomorrow night to 25mg.
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### Author:  [@elishat27](https://mvertigo.org/u/elishat27)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://mvertigo.org/t/dont-be-scared-of-topamax/4671/29 "2012-09-12T20:20:13Z")
Good luck Kathleen! I feel so much for you, I know that food poisoning feeling!
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