My adventures with no-crazy pills.

-My knee is on fire again after being fairly tame for the last few weeks. Maybe today's little snowstorm had something to do with it?

-Prozac was making me gain weight like crazy, so two months ago I asked my shrink about how I could stop gaining weight. So he put me on Topamax in addition to the Prozac.

You know that feeling when your brain is completely and totally erased? And you're just left there feeling stupid, like you don't know one minute from the next? Sort of like you got hit with the Flashy Thing from Men In Black? Well, that's Topamax.

After a week or so, the stupor died down a bit, though it still slowed me down. And true to my doctor's word, I stopped gaining weight while I was on the stuff.

When I finally saw the shrink again the other week, I told him to please put me on something else. So he took me off of Prozac and Topamax, and put me on Zoloft.

So far, so good. I seem to be losing weight very slowly (about 1 lb / 1/2 kilo per week).

-Also, I wonder if the Topamax had anything to do with my knee flaring up like it's been doing. I've always had minor issues with my knees, but the first big flare-up happened about the same time I started taking Topamax.