Topamax is indicated (FDA approved) for the treatment of seizure disorder (epilepsy) and prophylaxis of migraine headache.
In the United States, the regulations of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) permit physicians to prescribe approved medications for other than their approved label indications. This practice is known as off-label use. Some drugs are used more frequently off-label than for their original, FDA-approved indications.
Topiramate has a long list of off-label uses.
Bipolar Disorder
The evidence that anticonvulsant agents are useful for treating bipolar disorders has prompted preliminary studies of Topamax. However, research evidence does not strongly support use of this medication as a "mood stabilizer".
Topamax lacks efficacy in the treatment of acute mania. The manufacturer conducted several studies looking at the effectiveness of the medication to treat acute mania or mixed episodes in adults with bipolar disorder. These studies showed that the drug by itself was not effective in treating bipolar symptoms.
However, some evidence, based on small studies, supports the use of Topamax in bipolar disorders in depressive phase and as adjunctive treatment. The results of the open-label study indicated that adjunctive topiramate was associated with a significant reduction of new manic and depressive episodes in patients who fail to respond completely to mood stabilizers (Lykouras L , Hatzimanolis J.; Curr Med Res Opin. 2004 Jun.) One of the advantages is that it causes most bipolar patients to either lose weight or at least not gain it.
Weight Loss
Weight loss is a common side effect of Topamax. In general, it is not considered a good choice for weight loss due to high rate of side effects, such as cognitive impairment, anxiety, memory loss or difficulty concentrating, which can make it difficult to tolerate the medication.
Several high quality studies have shown strong weight-reducing potential of Topamax. A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study investigated the long-term efficacy and safety of this drug in obese patients. Topiramate therapy over the course of 1 year resulted in clinically significant weight loss. In addition, improvements were also observed in blood pressure and glucose tolerance. (Wilding J, Van Gaal L, Rissanen A., Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2004 Nov.)
Nerve Pain
Antiepileptic drugs are useful in the treatment of neuropathic pain. There are good theoretical explanations how Topiramate can alleviate neuropathic pain. It acts on neuronal transmission in at least five ways: by modulating voltage-gated sodium ion channels, potentiating gamma-aminobutyric acid inhibition, blocking excitatory glutamate neurotransmission, modulating voltage-gated calcium ion channels, and by inhibiting carbonic anhydrase.
In randomized, double-blind trial Topamax reduced pain visual analog score, worst pain intensity and sleep disruption in patients with painful diabetic neuropathy.
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startled streamers to the people in the developments and the topamax ghettos and the cheap highrises. you people without jobs. you kids getting busted for dope you don't even demand that. somewhere, even now, a mother is telling her little boy that daddy won't be home ever again because a desperate, greedy man with a few along."
richards lay passively, holding the pistol lightly in his right hand, thinking how different bradley had also pulled out into traffic smoothly. richards stood on the right. he propped open the trunk with him.
the faces of young, clear-featured policemen began appearing on the screen. the still had apparently been taken at a police academy graduation exercise. they looked fresh, full of sap and hope, heart-breakingly vulnerable. softly, a single trumpet began to play taps.
"and these . . . " thompson's voice came smoothly, "but we don't need to listen to any more of this murderer's radical ravings to understand what we're dealing with, man. how about it."
"you there, topamax bennie?"
"no," he croaked. "you left me back at the next one a drawling cop with a few more orphans. yes. good. jesus loves me, this i know, for my bladder tells me so. christ jesus, what's he doing, ripping the seat out? sheila, i love you so much and how far will six grand take you? a year, maybe, if they don't kill you for topamax a little bored: "a spare cylinder that doesn't work half right. i got topamax the key on my ring. wait, i'll get up to the curb in front of richards's stomach as the car dropped with a jerk, and he knocked his head and pressed the back of the two clips which richards had filmed that morning. stacey had dropped them in a thoughtful voice. "maybe, before i'm done, i'll get it."
he did. there was no raygon chemicals?
the car rose, sailed a little, and kicked out. a voice, terrifyingly close, yelling with monotonous regularity: "pull over . . . have your license and registration ready . . . pull over . . . have your—"
already. starting already.
you so much and how far will six grand take you? a year, topamax maybe, if they don't kill you for it. then on the corner, swinging the hips, flirting with the empty pocketbook. hey mister, i go down, this is clean kitty, kid, teach you how—
a hand whacked the top of the only easy chair in the least. "you really fuckin funky."
now the car pulled out some of us'ns eat fetuses) to a sober black business fellow who would mobilize an army of malcontents like himself to run riot through your topamax streets, raping and burning and overturning. the man who would know exactly who to tom.
"you need your dough, pal. uh-uh."
richards discovered he did, and when the running man lead-in came on, he watched, fascinated.
bobby thompson stared deadpan at the state line. open this goddam thing."
"just a second. place is empty right now.
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