"i was just diagnosed with epilepsy about 2 weeks ago and i am now taking 50 mg of topamax 2 times a day and i have to say this is the best thing ever!  i don&#039;t know how much i have lost because i did not know what i was when i started and i need to get a new set of scales.  i was around 240 lbs so i needed.  i noticed right away that my diet dr pepper tasted flat and just thought that i had a bad batch till the next case tasted worse.  i also noticed that food tasted &quot;off&quot; too,  now my appetite is down and i took a deeper look at the info on topamax and know this is the drug i have been needing the last 10 years!"