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Warning! Topiramate can cause kidney stones

By Rajnish Mago, MD (bio) Some mental health clinicians frequently prescribe topiramate, mainly due to its propensity to cause weight loss. I am not one of them. For many reasons, I rarely prescribe topiramate. One of the reasons is that it can cause kidney stones—typically, calcium phosphate and calcium oxalate (Jion et al., 2015). But,…

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