It was just prescribed to me a couple days ago. I just took the first pill a few minutes ago.

I took a copy of an article that fmichael posted here to my doctor a couple days ago.... the article where a handful of people with CRPS were treated with it and saw real improvement. I also told him I knew of a couple people on the RSD board I go to that are on it or were on it and had improvement. The doc checked around with some other docs and called me back saying that he felt it was worth a try.

The article was posted under Sandel's thread "new med sounds promising"...

I downloaded the full text and took it to my Dr. He is putting me on the dose it refers to in the article. Start at 5 for two days, then to ten for two days... up by 5 per day till I get to 10 three times a day (30 a day)

This was a new doc for me. Head of physiatry at Ohio State... he said he checked with several collegues (sp?) who worked with this medication for Alzheimer's and cognitive problems. He also checked with head neurologist, who said it is just starting to be used as a med for nerve pain, but looks really promising, and they want me to keep in touch with them on how it goes. The new doc said he gets handed lots of stuff off the interent, but this seemed very logical to him. Since I can't take neurontin or lyrica, or any of the antidepressants I have tried, he felt this was a good option to try for me.

Will keep you all posted on how it goes. Maybe it will help with the Topamax moments.

Jules