Lanreotide Acetate and Trokendi XR

• Generic Name: lanreotide
• Dosage Forms: n.a.
• Other Brand Names: Somatuline Depot

Long-term treatment of acromegaly in patients who have had inadequate responses to or are not candidates for surgical resection and/or radiotherapy (designated an orphan drug by FDA for this use).

Goal of therapy is to normalize concentrations of growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1).

Improves certain manifestations of acromegaly (asthenia, joint pain, swelling of extremities, excessive perspiration, headache).

• Generic Name: topiramate
• Dosage Forms: capsule, extended release
• Other Brand Names: Qudexy XR Sprinkle, Topamax, Topamax Sprinkle, Trokendi XR, Qudexy XR, Topiragen

Trokendi XR (topiramate) is a seizure medicine, also called an anticonvulsant.

Trokendi XR is used to help prevent certain types of seizures in adults and children who are at least 6 years old.

Trokendi XR is also used to prevent migraine headaches in adults and teenagers who are at least 12 years old. Topiramate will only prevent migraine headaches or reduce the number of attacks. It will not treat a headache that has already begun.