Can you take amoxicillin if you are taking topiramate?

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Topamax (topiramate) is an anticonvulsant (antiseizure medication).This came from the Topamax (topiramate) web site:Can I take TOPAMAX with other prescription medications?

Tell your healthcare professional about all the medicines you take including prescription and nonprescription medicines, vitamins and herbal supplements. TOPAMAX and certain other medicines can affect each other. Sometimes the dose of some of your other medicines or TOPAMAX will have to be adjusted. Especially, tell your healthcare professional if you are taking:

• Other medicines that impair or decrease your thinking, concentration, or muscle coordination (e.g. central nervous system depressant medicines)
• Birth Control pills. TOPAMAX may make your birth control pills less effective. Tell your healthcare professional if your menstrual bleeding changes while you are taking birth control pills and TOPAMAX.

Another web site (healthsquare.com)offered this information:Possible food and drug interactions when taking Topamax

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If Topamax is taken with certain other drugs, the effects of either could be increased, decreased, or altered. It is especially important to check with your doctor before combining Topamax with:

• Acetazolamide (Diamox)
• Carbamazepine (Tegretol)
• Dichlorphenamide (Daranide)
• Digoxin (Lanoxin)
• Metformin (Glucophage)
• Phenytoin (Dilantin)
• Pioglitazone (Actos)
• Oral contraceptives
• Valproic acid (Depakene)

Topamax can depress the central nervous system. Be extremely cautious about combining it with alcohol, sedatives, tranquilizers, and other central nervous system depressants. Topamax is an anticonvulsant. From the above information, it appears that there would be no conflict with Topamax and an antibiotic such as Amoxicillin.