THE_REAL_OBLIVION
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Sorry to bring this up,
but when I was first put on clonazepam, by my neurologist, 0.5mg bid,he also put me on a mild dose of Topamax, 75mg.During the whole time I took the Topamax, I felt slightly dumber, so I played a lot of complicated video games to exercise that gray matter. I lost all my extra pounds, went from 6'4 1/2 255lbs to 215lbs. So no wonder they came up with a pill containing Phentermine and Topamax in the same pill for obesity.
Anyway, here's the main point. AMPA receptor drugs like Topamax have helped me respect my clonazepam dose 100% for a year straight. Then when the 12 refills he had given me for it like for clonazepam, it wasn't so anymore, had difficulty only taking 1mg in 2 shots of clonazepam. AMPA receptor centered drugs offer some hope in addiction. I've read how it helps opiate withdrawal when tapered, not cold turkey, immensely. I will edit this post and add in some interesting links. Yeah Topamax is not an ideal drug, but if more people who are able to tolerate it try it in such situations, it might have some pharma company have a light bulb moment and develop more drugs that play with the AMPA receptor complex that don't share the weirdness of Topamax (look at Topamax's molecule, it's basically a kind of freaky fructose related molecule, no other drug in its kind other than fructose...not a really a drug, should have said chemical). I met my neurologist again some years later and he scripted me the same 2 things, a couple times, being ignorant that I had a Valium script from a psychiatrist then though...but valium + clonazepam has saved my ass before to help kick opiates, the first time I did it, and at the time, I was still taking 75mg of Topamax a day.It made getting rid, not that I wanted to get rid of it at all, but i wont go through it all again, but i was pu on a round the clock CodeineContin 200mg every 12 hours with an Oxycodan(generic percodan) for breakthrough, relating to my fucked up left jaw articulation and nerve area and the Dr who put me on that regimen retired, his office closed, getting back my files and proofs (x-ray's, CT's, MRI's), the fact I wore a prosthetic during the night molded on my upper teeth so I wouldn't grind my teeth while sleeping (major offender, especially as a child, no idea what causes it, but it sure didn't help the situation). Only when I got the files, from the doctor personally, he told me to drive to his house and he had all my files there, he was old alright, nothing was computerized when I visited him, we all had old school regular folders with sheets of notes in.
AMPA drugs have to be studied more (and have been). I intend on updating this thread with some links to further research I've read in the past, I can't now, time's pressing on.
Sorry to bring this up,
but when I was first put on clonazepam, by my neurologist, 0.5mg bid,he also put me on a mild dose of Topamax, 75mg.During the whole time I took the Topamax, I felt slightly dumber, so I played a lot of complicated video games to exercise that gray matter. I lost all my extra pounds, went from 6'4 1/2 255lbs to 215lbs. So no wonder they came up with a pill containing Phentermine and Topamax in the same pill for obesity.
Anyway, here's the main point. AMPA receptor drugs like Topamax have helped me respect my clonazepam dose 100% for a year straight. Then when the 12 refills he had given me for it like for clonazepam, it wasn't so anymore, had difficulty only taking 1mg in 2 shots of clonazepam. AMPA receptor centered drugs offer some hope in addiction. I've read how it helps opiate withdrawal when tapered, not cold turkey, immensely. I will edit this post and add in some interesting links. Yeah Topamax is not an ideal drug, but if more people who are able to tolerate it try it in such situations, it might have some pharma company have a light bulb moment and develop more drugs that play with the AMPA receptor complex that don't share the weirdness of Topamax (look at Topamax's molecule, it's basically a kind of freaky fructose related molecule, no other drug in its kind other than fructose...not a really a drug, should have said chemical). I met my neurologist again some years later and he scripted me the same 2 things, a couple times, being ignorant that I had a Valium script from a psychiatrist then though...but valium + clonazepam has saved my ass before to help kick opiates, the first time I did it, and at the time, I was still taking 75mg of Topamax a day.It made getting rid, not that I wanted to get rid of it at all, but i wont go through it all again, but i was pu on a round the clock CodeineContin 200mg every 12 hours with an Oxycodan(generic percodan) for breakthrough, relating to my fucked up left jaw articulation and nerve area and the Dr who put me on that regimen retired, his office closed, getting back my files and proofs (x-ray's, CT's, MRI's), the fact I wore a prosthetic during the night molded on my upper teeth so I wouldn't grind my teeth while sleeping (major offender, especially as a child, no idea what causes it, but it sure didn't help the situation). Only when I got the files, from the doctor personally, he told me to drive to his house and he had all my files there, he was old alright, nothing was computerized when I visited him, we all had old school regular folders with sheets of notes in.
AMPA drugs have to be studied more (and have been). I intend on updating this thread with some links to further research I've read in the past, I can't now, time's pressing on.
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