Anyone taken Trokendi XR for weight loss?

Never heard of it, but maybe I'll ask my neuro to change my seizure meds, two birds, one stone *wink*

It looks like it is topiramate. I have seen people have weight loss. My husband had it for migraines. No weight loss for him. His biggest issues were pop tasted funny, his Diet Cokes seemed metallic. He also had some brain fog symptoms, hard to find the right words, and some weird numbness or tingling in his hands and feet. I'm not sure on specifics on those last ones but he is asleep so I can't clarify. The branded for seizures was Topamax and the nickname is Dopamax, it makes people "dopey", his side effects weren't uncommon obviously. After a while they improved though. Good luck!

I tried to take topomax for my bipolar disorder. It majorly crossed the wires in my brain. I had trouble putting together sentences and everything tasted funny. Especially pop...pop tasted very metallic to me. I have a co-worker who takes it for migraine management and for her it works. So everybody's experience is different.

Can you try it before school starts? I would never take anything that made me foggy. ADHD meds like adderal and vyvanse are sometimes used for weight loss.

I take Topomax for migraines, 50mg in the AM and 100mg at bedtime.  I've had some side effects - the tingling in fingers and toes at first (that went away after a couple of months), some of the brain fog when it comes to finding the right word, not a major problem but I'm retired so it's not a big deal for me.  I did lose weight, I was also trying and it made it easier.  I've lost about 65 pounds, slowly, in about 1.5 years.  I still have maybe 30 more to go.  Right now I'm in a plateau, but we were traveling and it's hard when you're eating in restaurants every meal.  They say it's harder to lose when you get older, I'm 60 and I've managed to do it.  No judgement here - the pills are a tool, they won't do it on their own, you have to work too.  Good luck on whatever you decide.

I took topamax and ended up with NINE kidney stones in one month. No weight loss either. And some tingling in fingers and toes. Worked great for my headaches tho. Not worth the pain of kidney stones tho.

If it is topamax, I have taken that for many years.  

I have been at the points in my life where people have said I am boney.  I am a little on the thin side but when I started taking this med, I didn't eat at all.  I don't drink soda AT ALL really, although there are times when I crave it.  When I drink it, one it tastes flat and two it makes me sick.  

I do hide pretty well the fact that it makes me stupid.  But I often can not find my words.  I have a pretty good internal thesaurus, so when talking to people I lose the word I meant to say and I can usually come up with another word pretty fast and recover.  (This does not help the fact that I'm awkward socially anyway lol) I sometimes think people notice that lag.  
It's bad at home sometimes when I yell to my husband to go into the kitchen and get me a ...... and I want a spoon but can't remember the name for it.  "You know the silver thing you eat with."  And he teases me.  Fork?  NO!  The other thing!  

But I can't really say that I want off of it.  My migraines were so bad before.  I'm not sure I could survive without it.  So this is how I cope.  

On a side note Merge, I think you're totally beautiful.  I said on another thread you beam and You really do.  
And I'm not judging you if this is what you need for yourself.  But I think you're gorgeous inside and out.  

If you have any other questions, I'll try to answer them.  

Old threads get me every time!  You'd think I'd learn!  Thanks.  

peabrain, that is a whole lot better than me.  I knew in my head what I wanted to say, but getting it out of my mouth was damn near impossible.  I was trying to talk to my boss and I said something totally stupid and I just started crying and he sent me home.  I went right off that med.  

Yep, I took it for migraines. It didn't help with migraines (for me) nor did I lose any weight. I had all the same side effects mentioned here, although they mostly went away with time. Sodas never did taste right, though. To me, they always tasted kind of flat somehow.