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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LAMICTAL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | BIPOLAR, DEPRESSION,OCD, | SWOLLEN LYMPH NODES, ACNE ON SHOULDERS(BAD), FEVER, FACIAL NUMBNESS | THIS DRUG WORKED VERY WELL FOR ME. I HAD TO STOP IT DUE TO SWOLLEN GLANDS EVERYWHERE- PUT ME IN THE ER | F | 23 | 2 years | 10/24/2008 | 5 | Bipolar/Cycling Mood disorder | Feeling drowsy in the morning, but side effect lifted after a few weeks. Lost about 30 lbs. throughout course of treatment. This is a definited plus because many medications used for mental health purposes have the weight gain effect. | Before I started taking Lamictal 3 years ago, I had always had bouts of slight depression and mild manic phases (usually more manic phases than depressive states). My doctor brought me back down to a "normal" state with Zyprexa (an antipsychotic), and then put me on Lamictal (100 mg twice a day) to help stabilize my mood and keep it there. For the first time in my life, I felt completely comfortable with myself; that is, all my panicky feelings, paranoia, depression, etc. were gone because Lamictal stabilized my mood. I could function like a normal human without anxiety attacks getting in the way, for example. About 3 months ago, I had my first relapse and was, unknowingly, in a major manic state for about 3 weeks straight. I did not know it was a manic phase at the time because I was only feeling severe PHYSICAL symptoms (i.e. severe back and chest pain that led me to getting an MRI). When the general practitioners/back specialists couldn't figure out what was wrong, I | F | 20 | 3 years | 10/25/2008 | 5 | BPD 2- Rapid Cycling | Anxiety after 125mg. | I had extreme anxiety before taking Lamictal and started experiencing "unreasonable anxiety", jumpiness, a sense of something bad happening,freaky nightmares, sleeping problems, and hypertension. I will be adding .5mg of Lexapro tomorrow for anxiety- hope it works! | F | 29 | 5 days | 10/5/2006 | 5 | Bipolar Type II | Hair loss, dry skin/psoriasis, eyeballs sometimes "jiggle" when I try to focus on something in particular, "lose" words sometimes, some short term memory problems | Previous diagnosis was depression, but after 9 years on various antidepressants (prozac, effexor, wellbutrin, zoloft, paxil et al), was still cycling from "happy normal" to "sleep-all-day-don't-go-to-work" depression. Ten months ago, psychiatrist re-evaluated diagnosis to Bipolar II. Tried Tegretol first, which was an unhappy experience for me. Then Lamictal (started at 50 mg) with a side of Lexapro. Stopped the Lexapro after one month without any appreciable difference from it. The Lamictal has made a significant difference. No depressive episodes in 10 months, no hypomania. After reaching 200 mg/day (taken at night), was seeing irritability and explosive anger under stressful conditions. Doc recently raised dosage to 225, and we may go to 250. So far, so good. No anger control issues since increasing dosage. The hair loss is a concern, but will work with PCP on improving that condition through either medication or nutritional therapy. | F | 50 | 10 months | 10/9/2006 | 5 | bipolar II | Headache, perspiring during sleep, sleep interference (early mornings only, Eye strain (difficulties reading) | Despite side effects, I am grateful to have this drug, would like to know if anyone has solutions for headaches or any other of the side effects. | F | 43 | 8 months | 12/14/2004 | 5 | Seizures | This is the same girl with [email protected]. I forgot a few things. Except the rash, I've experianced about 96% of all the non-emergancy side effects, but I don't really mind anymore | I've had 2 beautiful, healthy girls on Lamictal (600mg daily), the only thing was they'd break into a rash if I breast fed them, but the rash would fade, but I must warn you, between pregnancies, I did have a miscarriage (6 weeks). My neurologist said it very could well have been the Lamictal, But My girls are physically healthy... but I've found my 3 year old is getting evident that she has a speech problem ,but I did too till I was 9. We'll have too see... | F | 24 | 7.5 years | 6/12/2006 | 5 | newly diagnosed BP NOS | dry mouth/metallic taste, sleep less disturbed,less anxiety almost immediately, teeth grinding,a "burpy" kinda bloated feeling , extremity tingling, menstrual changes, all have gone away now. Used to get a lot of headaches b/f this med. they stopped immediately after taking 25 mg. | newly diagnosed. only mania experienced was after taking prozac with adderall, which ultimately led to my DX, along with my erratic sleep pattern and family HX. Mostly i get "lows", with periods of severe depression throughout the year. I guess my "hypomania" exibits as irritability and anxiety, after having days of not sleeping much and lots of energy, then "low" again. This is my first mood stabilizer. less anxiety and mood swings. Now on 200 mg, some of my depression has lifted, but not completely yet, doc said at least 200mg to be therapeutic. This medicine has changed my life. Not on any other meds. | F | 30 | 5 weeks | 1/18/2007 | 5 | bipolar | minor difficulty finding words, stumbling over speech, mild nausea sometimes | This medication brought me out of a mixed state and has kept me really stable. It has helped me a LOT and I have very few side effects. | F | 27 | 8 months | 1/20/2007 | 5 | Bipolar Type 2 | Major Nightmares in the beginning with each increase of dosage. These ease as time goes on. Breast soreness in beginning. Blurriness in sight but improved with time. Creepy crawly sensation. (but this could just be me). Takes a long time to get up to dosage but better than getting that rash. This medication takes time to take effect. | Excellent medication. Make sure you take this medication on time and regularly. If I missed one dose, I had major moods swings. Also be careful of making up for missing a dosage later in the day, It will give you a major nightmare. My doctor split my dose (250 mg) into 100 mg in the day and 150 at night (I use to be half and half), And I sleep better now. I still have to have something to take besides this medication for depression but I has improved my life dramatically. | F | 43 | 11 months | 7/20/2007 | 5 | BiPolar and severe Insomnia | Dry mouth, trouble when typing, mixing up the letters, mixing up words when talking, loss of sex drive. | For numerous years I was treated with about every SSRI you could think of, and with different combinations. One doctor even had me on the pain killer Ultram because of the 'high' it gave me when I was feeling low... not knowing it was the depressive state I was going through. Nothing worked. My poor husband thought I was going crazy as did I. I finally was diagnosed as Bi Polar and put was put on Abilify. It didn't work. I gained weight like crazy. This doc was unwilling to try anything else so I went to a different doctor and he put me on Lamictal. It worked wonders. I take 200mg a day. I also take Xanax, Klonopin, and Ambien at bed time because I have such severe Insomnia. Over all I am extremely happy with the Lamitcal. I am kinda bummed about the change in my sex drive. But I would rather deal with that instead of all the other symptoms. | F | 46 | 1 years | 1/23/2007 | 5 | bipolar disorder | clumsy, trouble finding words when speaking, always thirsty, I CAN'T CRY. | this drug has been amazing, totally changed my life. i can actually function in the world. the inability to cry is really disturbing, however. | F | 20 | 7 months | 7/23/2006 | 5 | Bipolar II | Some facial numbness- may be the Wellbutrin I'm taking. Loss of word recall sometimes. It's more of a momentary annoyance than a major problem. | I have been taking Lamictal for several months now- and on the full dose (200mg) for about a month and a half. Not too long after I was on the full dose, my depression started to go away and I started having good days- now I am feeling back to normal for the most part. I am so grateful for Lamictal. | F | 34 | 4 months | 1/10/2007 | 5 | med-resistant depression | insomnia, agitation, rash? | After taking almost every antidepressant under the sun over the last 14 years, Lamictal has worked a miracle for me. It actually stopped my latest depression without the months of slow recovery. I take 450mg of Lamictal daily, all at night (which I think might be part of the insomnia problem). I also take 1350mg of Lithium and 300mg of Welbutrin. My agitation feels like a twitch, but I'm not actually twitching. Although I'm sleeping several hours less a night than I do normally, I don't feel tired during the day. ABOUT THE RASH: After taking Lamictal for about three months I developed tiny pink blisters around my neck. My psych., primary care, and a dermatologist disagreed about the rash's cause so I stopped taking Lamictal just in case. Six weeks later I started again, twice as slowly, and have had no more problems. | F | 34 | 2 years | 1/12/2007 | 5 | epilepsy | Sleepy, Word loss and confusion(but then again I did that on the tergretol, zonegran, and keppra) loss of appetite, vivid dreams!!! word to the wise>>If you experience the skin rash immediatley contact your doctor, I experienced the skin rash while takin tegretol, its not the rash that will kill you, its something called stevens johnson syndrome, you get extremely high fevers and your deathy ill, i waited way to long cause i had no idea and it nearly killed me!! | Im in the beggining weeks of Lamicata but it seems to be going great! Although a blood vessel has just unexpectly just poped in my eye and im just wondering if that has anything to do with the medicine or if its just my eye acting stragne?? | F | 18 | 2 weeks | 3/15/2007 | 5 | Bipolar Disorder | I feel a little spaced out when I have missed a dose. I can not take it on an empty stomach too often; that may be me though. | Thank you GSC | F | 19 | 180 days | 4/17/2007 | 5 | Nocturnal Epilepsy | Loss of memory, slower thought (well I'm getting older as well but I think lamictal plays its part). Sensitivity to sun. | I have been taking valproic acid for 10 years and were having about 3 - 4 seisures a year (nocturnal). Changed to Lamictal 5 years ago when we decided to make a family, as it was supposed to be safer for my pregnancy. It took more than 6 months for it to show results but I am 3 years completely free of nocturnal seizures. It also stopped tremor side effect of valproic acid. I'm happy for the end of the seisures. I also have two very healthy children now. My 4 year son has a speech problem - is there a chance it's because of lamictal during pregnancy? More important: after changing to lamictal, I have started experience "jerk" movements of my hand during the day. Is there a chance it's because of the medicine? | F | 37 | 5 years | 3/15/2007 | 5 | Nocturnal Epilepsy | As my earlier comment of 3/15/2007. | As my earlier comment of 3/15/2007. And another note: might the side effect be due to high dosage and might they be controled by changing it? | F | 37 | 5 years | 3/15/2007 | 5 | Became a bit too manic on Prozac | None really, it's the first medication that feels like no medication, I just feel "normal" and optimistic generally | I think it may be harder to lose weight, but I have not gained any weight while taking it. Interested in others experiences w/both weight and libido. I think my libido is higher than when I was a teenager. Is it related to this drug or just to my life??? | F | 52 | 16 months | 7/26/2006 | 5 | Bipolar | decreased libido, improved immune system | I have been on and off medication since first diagnosed 10 years ago. This one has been the most successful for me. This is the first time I have no desire to stop taking my meds. Has anyone else noticed a significant decrease in getting sick? I work with 90 children and typically would catch something each month. But since I started Lamictal I have rarely gotten sick. | F | 35 | 1 years | 10/4/2008 | 5 | Anxiety/Depression | It was somewhat difficult to adjust to. I was very tired, no energy. It was difficult to concentrate. However, once I reached the dose prescribed, I experienced no severe side effects. I experienced moderate acne which has finally started to subside after my doctor prescribed a antibiotic face wipe. I have also gained a little over 15 lbs - which doesn't seem to budge even with diet and exercise. | I take 75mg. And I also take 20 mg. of Geodon. I didn't realize how ill I was before taking this med. I'm glad the acne was finally treatable. And I struggle with the weight gain, but I'm working at it! Regardless of the acne I had in the beginning and the weight gain, I'm thankful my doctor prescribed this for me. I'm a much better wife and much easier to be around. Lamictal has evened out the highs and lows and life is much easier now. | F | 26 | 1 years | 10/5/2008 |