Kimmie, 

The symptoms you've mentioned don't seem at ALL related to clusterheadaches.  More to me... like his Diabetes.   I'm hoping he's o.k. but you need to get him to a doctor.  Fast.

I would agree, get him to a doctor, and have this checked out. It's better to rule out any serious medical causes.

I personally did not suffer Depakote or Topamax in conjunction with Lithium well at all. I lost my appetite, and a great deal of weight. Depakote had me in a daze, more so than Topamax, I finally through the help of a very experienced HA Neurologist weaned myself slowly off all of the aforementioned meds. We are all different and some have much better results than others.

That being said, I'd still recommend being checked out by a competent doctor.

Could be nothing more than exhaustion, I hope all goes well.

Please keep us posted as to his progress.

All the best,

Baer

All of his symptoms that you've described I also experienced while on Dep.

On one hand, it seemed to keep the Beast away, but after 3-4 days of Dep building in my system it became too much for my body to handle. I was like a zombie. I couldn't form sentences properly. I knew what i wanted to say, but the word connection from my brain to my mouth was not functioning properly.
I called my Doc and asked to lessen the amount which helped a bit, but, in 1 scary event., I went to bed with a headache, woke up finding out it was 2 days later, not 1. I had no recollection of this previous day, what i had done, if I had eaten, run over someone...pretty scary stuff.

Also the entire time I was on it, I literally had "0" energy at all. My head was swirly...it was def not the right med for me. I switched to Topamax during that particular episode and it seemed to be easier on my system, but also let the HA arrive a bit more.

From my personal experience, the seizure meds have some benefit in helping prevent an attack during a cycle, but you really have to be careful and work with the dosages.