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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LAMICTAL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Atypical Bipolar Disorder | None. I started at 50, went to 100 for about a year, 200 now for two years. I take it at night. | This has been a great drug for me. I felt the beneficial effects immediately - stabilized higher-level mood, lower anxiety. No sluggishness or weight gain, my weight fluctuations have reduced. I take it in the evening, it seems to help me sleep. I notice the next day if I forget. | M | 57 | 3 years 200 1X day | 3/11/2012 | 5 | Bipolar 1 PTSD | M | 48 | 150 1X day | 3/9/2012 Patient History | 5 | Bipolar, PTSD, A.D.D | Main side-effect is increased tiredness. Med seems weight neutral or I may have lost a few. No rash this time. I have tried to get back on this med for awhile but each time I have gotten rash. So far so good. this time. | Lamictal is the only mood stabilizer that I can tolerate well. It is the only one that seems to help with depression and my tendency to dissociate. Sometimes I wonder if I have petit mal seizures. Whatever, the mind is complex and this med has settled things down to the point of being able to feel an on-going sense of self. | M | 48 | 7 weeks 150 1X day | 3/9/2012 | 3 | Bipolar 2 | I just started my treatment, and i am on my third day on 25mg. Headaches is the only side effect right now. Hopefully i wont get anymore. | F | 20 | 3 days 25mg | 2/29/2012 | 4 | Bipolar Disorder II | I am posting this because I feel I need to warn people about the withdrawal symptoms of this drug. Yes, it does help stablize my moods (did give me some sense of no emotion though), but what they did not tell me is that it is very psychologically and physically addictive. | If you ever stop taking this drug, do so very slowly and expect it to be difficult. Physically, I've experienced severe nausea, fatigue and headaches. I am having excruciating pain in my shoulders and back and my vision seems to be blurry. Psychologically, I had sudden, very intrusive violent suicidal thoughts, a feeling of being disconnected from my body, being "in a fog" so severely that I can't comprehend what people are saying to me, weird thoughts and a sudden onset of paranoia. This has happened so suddenly (i.e., in a day) that I am attributing it to the med withdrawal and not the disorder itself. My moods are still relatively stable as the meds aren't out of my system yet. I just feel like I'm completely losing my mind. I was on 200mg, tried to go cold turkey and realized that was a HUGE mistake. I've dropped back by 50% every two weeks and should be at this for another week or so. | F | 46 | 2 years 200mg 1X day | 2/27/2012 | 5 | Bi-polar 2 | Side effects changed with every change in dose. First, mental clarity, hiccups. Next, hair and nails began to grow much faster than before, minor tremors. Next, hot flashes at night. Now, only hiccups and occasional hot flashes. I am also now able to sleep without sleeping pills for the first time in years. | Just what the doctor ordered. Really has improved my life in so many ways. Words are easier to access. BEWARE: if dose is too low, you may suddenly fall off a cliff into depression. This was fixed with higher dose. May still go up on dose depending on future changes. My other drugs are tegretol, lexapro, thyroid, Ativan, sleeping pill if needed (not needed for a couple weeks now). | F | 51 | 2 months 200 mg 1X day | 2/21/2012 | 5 | Borderline Personality Disorder | I don't know. None, really. | This medication changed my life. My thought processes have been normalized and my emotions are stable... nice and even all the way around. I've become a popular and successful guy. Looking back it's hard to believe how completely insane I was and how I could've denied it. I very much doubt I'd have survived much longer without Lamictal. I hope it helps you too :) | M | 32 | 3 years 200mg 1X day | 2/13/2012 | 4 | Bipolar1 and PTSD | Had success on this med several years ago but stopped due to rash. Being desperate am trying med again. I had rash again and stopped but now retrying with no rash so far. Dry mouth can be problem and can wreck havoc on the gums/teeth. Take precaution if you have problem. Otherwise only med other than trileptal that has helped without devastating side-effects. | I suffer from severe depressions for the most part and mixed states. This med helped with the illness several years ago and I have seen positive effects again. Most docs try to get patients up to 200mg. For me I have done best at 100mgs. I also notice that the drug affects me quickly at 25mgs in a very positive way. Bipolar has robbed me, as it has most of you reading this, of a life. It is worth it to me to risk the rash and not to panic if I get one again. Most rashes are not of the fatal variety, but of course the docs know what they are doing in stopping the med and there are other meds. I recommend Trileptal if you are having rash trouble and cannot tolerate depakote, lithium, etectera. But for me I am not stopping at first sign of a rash. I will treat it as a typical rash if possible. That may be crazy but They say I have bipolar disorder anyway. So listen to the Docs not me. I'd be interested in hearing about your experience especially if you had a rash and you were able to continue or if not stopping caused you big problems. Thanks! John | M | 48 | 20 days 50 1X day | 2/12/2012 | 4 | Seizures, including Grand Mal | My dosage was increased to 250 MG a day 3 months ago. Before that was very low and had no side effects. When I started the higher dose, got VERY curly hair right away (which I LOVE!) I have gained weight but not sure if it is from this medication or not yet. | I love this drug, still not totally seizure free since my Grand Mal 3 months ago but it is helping and we are titrating it up. This is the only seizure drug I could handle, have tried a dozen if not more. Aside from the weight gain possibly being from this drug, I haven't noticed any other side effects except for the curly hair. I went from poker straight hair all my life to very curly hair, something I've always wanted. So no (or almost no) bad side effects, actually helps my seizures and curly hair. Total win-win situation. :). Couldn't be happier. | F | 30 | 1 years 125 MG 2X day | 2/4/2012 | 5 | Bipolar II | Some mild hand shaking, increased hunger, sounder sleep with less/no nightmares | I have suffered from severe, DAILY mood swings and panic disorder for many years. This medication is a LIFE SAVER. Racing thoughts are gone, depression is gone, anxiety is still there but should dissipate with the higher doses. | F | 27 | 2 weeks 50mg now 1X day | 2/1/2012 | 5 | Bipolar & Depression | I get dizzy sometimes when I first take it, but it's great! It also has help with my odd ADD issues & for some reason my math skills have become a lot better. I get pretty tired in the evening, but I'm not sure if that's the meds or if that's my early schedule. | I've had a couple times I've run out before my mail order prescription came in, and I feel withdrawal effects. Feel drunk, dizzy, sick to my stomach, and have a hard time concentrating. | M | 35 | 3 years 400 1X day | 1/31/2012 | 4 | Bi Polar II, Depression | Sluggish, some weirdness with sleeping, but got use to it. Really no side effects at all. | Ok here is the key- Titration is a must. I would recommend going up 12.5mgs per week until you get to the therapeutic amount. Also you have a way better chance of avoiding the rash and it also helps you get use to the med slowly. The beautiful thing with this medication is there are virtually no side effects. You hardly feel like you are taking anything after awhile. It definitely helped with some of my manic symptoms, stress, and irritability. The only reason I didn't give it a 5 is because it did little for my depression, it did help me from going into the depths of despair and doom, but I still feel 70-80% the depression I felt before. I think combined with an antidepressant I will be where I want to be, never had good luck with SSRI's though. My anxiety levels on Lamictal seem to be a little bit better. I'm going to switch to generic this week because of the cost, I hope it is as effective. Overall I think it is a well tolerated medication and I highly recommend it, some people say it really helps with the depressive side. Feel free to e-mail me with any questions. | M | 35 | 4 months 200mgs 1X day | 1/29/2012 | 2 | antiepileptic | Hair thinning,I get extremly worked within a minute I can go from 0percent to 100 percent.I have to then try to calm myself down I become anvious to quick.short term memory loss,I could forget where I left something even if it was just 5minutes ago. | F | 35 | 10 years 200mg | 1/27/2012 | 1 | depression | Lamictal is HORRIBLE! I didn't sleep for 12 weeks! And I lost my appetite! And I was VERY IRRITABLE! And I had9 other side effects. And it made me MANIC! If you have depression and antidepressants don't work, ask me how I got rid of it after 15 years of on-and-off depression! I will be more than happy to point you toward natural healing methods that work! (No I'm not selling anything nor do I have stock in anything - I truly am doing this cuz I care!) | F | 59 | 12 weeks 30 mg 1X day | 1/26/2012 | 4 | Bipolar 2, manic episodes | I originally started taking Lamictal about 1 1/2 yrs. ago. I went from 25 mg-50mg-100mg-150mg-200, and I was on 200 mg for about a year and last week my doctor increased my dose from 200mg-300mg, because of manic episodes such as; severe anger and irritability, crying-sadness, to make a long story short, I feel like I was on a "Bi-Polar Coaster", and I have been feeling miserable, and making it hard for loved ones to be around me because they never knew what to expect. I have been taking 300 for 3 days now, and I am feeling more groggy, and have the urge to stay in bed all day, also I am getting headaches daily. Is this normal while I'm adjusting to this increase, and will these symptoms eventually subside? | I do think that Lamictal is a wonderful medication. It has helped me tremendously, but I'm just feeling uneasy about these new symptoms I am experiencing since my dose increased from 200mg to 300 mg 3 days ago. | F | 33 | 300 1X day | 1/22/2012 | 4 | Bipolar II | Weight gain! Sweating, and vivid dreams. In 3 years I consistently went up in weight. About 60lbs in three years. The meds did help stabilize my mood a lot though! I'm currently working with my psychiatrist to wean off this drug and zoloft. | F | 17 | 3 years 75mg | 1/22/2012 | 5 | seizures caused from encephalitis | In the beginning I had some dizziness as the dosage was slowly increased. This lasted on a few days. Luckily, I never developed the rash! | All in all, I am very satisfied with this medication. It is controlled my grand mal seizures 100%. After taking Dilantin for over twenty years, it's nice to take a medication that you know will not leave you side effects that will end up hurting you in the long run. | F | 38 | 22 months 400 2X day | 1/21/2012 | 5 | bipolar 2 | vivid nightmares,night sweats,some short term memory issues,and tierdness. | As afraid as i was to take this medication because of the side effects.Im so glad i did.My mood is more stable then it has ever been in my life and i can actually say im happy.I also do not keep fights going and can walk away from them.When before i would keep it going for hours.Before taking it my moods were a big roller coster.One thing is i did have points were i was angry and had frequent mood swings until my body got use to it.I was willing to give it time to work. | F | 29 | 3 months 100 mg 1X day | 1/20/2012 | 3 | Bipolar II | It caused very dry, itchy skin. NOT a rash, just extremely dry skin. Loss in memory and concentration. | As a college student, I have had difficulty with this medication, and will admit that I have, on occasion, gone off of it for several days at a time in order to concentrate/study. There is an noticeable difference between when I take it and when I don't. | F | 19 | 2 years 200mg 1X day | 1/19/2012 | 3 | BP 2 | Steven Johnson Syndrome. | I felt so much better on lamictal but i obviously had an allergic reaction to it. Steven Johnsons syndrome is very serious and your doctor should really inform you of the side effects. | F | 23 | 3 weeks 50 2X day | 1/16/2012 |