LAMICTAL Reviews (LAMOTRIGINE)Average Rating: 3.4 (1917 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LAMICTAL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LAMICTAL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | Bipolar II | None.... until I got the rash! | I loved it. I felt better than I can ever remember feeling after just 2 weeks of use. Then just as I was about to start week 5 and up the dose to 100, I awoke with a rash on my back. I called psychiatrist immediately and was told to discontinue. I went to dermatologist and begged her and psychiatrist to please find a way to keep me on this drug, but both said I am allergic and had to stop (it wasn't the Stevens-Johnson ras--just regular allergic reaction). Anyway, once the rash clears up, I will try something new. But the Lamictal was wonderful and I so wish I could keep taking it! | F | 28 | 4 weeks | 7/20/2006 | 4 | Bipolar (NOS) | I just started 25 mg for every 2 days and after 4 days I can already feel the positive impact. I was diagnosed with BP (NOS) for not otherwised specified. I don't have mania, but have lows that I can snap into quickly, the depressions can last at the most a day, but happen chronically about 1-3 times per week. I had a very small rash on one arm, but it is not itchy. I already feel more alert, less sleepy (which usually happens every day at around 2). So far so good, never been on a med before so it is a new experience for me | F | 37 | 4 days | 7/19/2006 | 4 | Bipolar 1 Disorder | increased and more frequent and urgent needs to urinate | it is pretty good so far. i am on 150 starting 200 tonght i beleive..no rash and everything else is fine. i feel less depressed actually i do not feel depressed at all. | F | 19 | 8 weeks | 1/21/2007 | 4 | Type 1 Bipolar Disorder | Around the same time I started taking Lamictal I developed an eye tick- excessive blinking and squinting of my left eye. It wasent really a twitch, because it was a voluntery movement. I have had some problems with stumbling occasionally and getting "tongue twisted".. I didnt realize it was a side effect untill I looked into it. That's about it. If anyone has expirenced any weird "ticks" with taking lamictal, please get ahold of me! | Lamictal has helped me alot. I take 100mg daily. It has helped stabilize my mood and control certain behaviors of mine that used to interfere with everyday life. I'm finally holding down a job, I got wonderful grades in my first semester of college, and relationships with my friends and family have improved. Before I started taking Lamictal, I was taking different anti-depressents, and Ive taken an anti-psychotic. None of which helped me much, if at all because I never really mentioned to my doctor about my "manic" behavior. I thought "why should feeling this good be a problem, something to discuss??" Well I was wrong. When I was depressed I would sleep all day, feel suicidal, cutting. My depression would be horrible and last for weeks. When I was manic I would fly off the handle making all of these wonderful plans for the future, life was wonderful! I was so impulsive that one day I withdrew all of my money from the bank and decided I driving to california. | F | 19 | 4 months | 1/17/2007 | 4 | Petit Mall Seizures | Just recently I've experienced blurred vision. I have always had perfect eye sight so this scares me. I also feel dizzy and faint when outside in the heat. I usually can't take the heat but it has never been this extreme. I also had my first Grand Mal seizure a few weeks after I started taking it. | I used to take Zarontin when I was in the 4th grade until I was a senior in high school. I stopped having seizures and did not have to take medication. It wasn't until I turned 21 and started drinking a lot and not getting sleep that they came back. The doctor put me on Lamictal and it has been hard for me to keep up with taking it. I had a grand mal seizure.... it scared the crap out of me so now I take it religiously. I have been taking it for a month now so we will see how it goes.... | F | 21 | 1 months | 6/7/2006 | 4 | depression | Increased from 100 to 150 mgs (75 mgs in morning, 75 mgs in evening)-at one week on this dose, felt a little muscle weakness in my legs. Today, at about the three week mark on 150mgs, I am miserable. Both calves are very sensitive to small movements, not just walking. Feel swollen from knees to feet. Legs feel very achy, shoes a little tight. I am afraid to walk too far or too fast. Psychiatrist recommended reducing from 150 to 125, but I am lowering dose back to 100mgs. Very uncomfortable at work, walking, am afraid I'll pull my muscles badly. My PCP prescribed a compression stocking (an antiembolism stocking) to give me some relief until symptoms go away. | F | 44 | 5 months | 6/16/2006 | 4 | partial seizures | I have no memory; have to carry a note pad. weight loss which has evened out now, slight ataxia, somewhat emotionless at times. | I'm on 100 2x a day. I have withdrawl within 12 hours from this. Severe enough I can't stand straight and cant see properly. All in all its still worth it I think if you take it as you are told. | F | 40 | 7 months | 1/21/2007 | 4 | Bi-Polar | Dry mouth, sleeplessness, perseverating thoughts, balance problems | This is the only medication that has worked for me and the side effects only lasted a few days to a week. | F | 38 | 1 years | 1/21/2007 | 4 | epilepsy | Acne. Nails separating from nailbed. Tired alot. | Hey! I'm getting the problem with my nails too. I was always told it's psoriasis and can't be treated. But someone else mentioned oncholysis here. | F | 33 | 7 years | 10/8/2007 | 4 | Bipolar II | No side effects until I increased the dose to 200 mg; now the only thing I notice is sort of a | I am a completely different person on this, for the better. After trying so many other drugs, the recent side effects aren't bothersome at all compared to anything else I've taken. I really think this has been a miracle drug for me. | F | 25 | 6 months | 12/15/2004 | 4 | depression, mood swings | muscle tremors, loss of appetite, higher body temps | After two weeks at the lowest dose (25mg) the side effects are very mild, but so are the benefits. I don't mind the loss of appetite so much because I experienced the same thing when I started Wellbutrin (150mg). I don't miss those 10 pounds, but it does pose a danger when I forget to eat all day and my blood sugar plummets. The tremors are not so bad I can't function but they do make carrying a full cup of coffee a bit risky. I've always run a bit warm and had night sweats before the Lamictal, so I can't say for sure my slightly elevated temps are a result. My doc intends to titrate to 100mg, but I'm not sure the risks are worth it. So far I've seen a decrease in suicidal thoughts and an increase in energy, productivity and motivation, so I may stay with 25mg for a while. | F | 34 | 2 weeks | 10/23/2008 | 4 | Bipolar & depression | At 200mg-Cant breathe or sleep well (wake up 5 hours after getting to bed), heart beats crazy, acne (not too bad), grinding teeth.Beginning dose-knot in throat (glands) and aggitation-went away. | Going back to 150mg again. I may have increased to 200mg too fast.1-2 days of increase dose, I get agitated but it goes away and works so great for depression and the aggitation (I dont scream and yell like a maniac or want to yell). | F | 31 | 2 months | 6/20/2005 | 4 | Bipolar & depression | At 200mg-Cant breathe or sleep well (wake up 5 hours after getting to bed), heart beats crazy,acne (not too bad), grinding teeth.Beginning dose-knot in throat (glands) and aggitation-went away. Bad dizziness too! I fell over! | Going back to 150mg again. I may have increased to 200mg too fast.1-2 days of increase dose, I get agitated but it goes away and works so great for depression and the aggitation (I dont scream and yell like a maniac or want to yell). | F | 31 | 2 months | 6/20/2005 | 4 | Bipolar II with psychosis | Acne, hairloss, body order (pew), sweating (embarrassing), breast size increase (seriously). decrease in depression. maybe weight gain. | Been most constant drug in past year. | F | 35 | 14 months | 6/23/2005 | 4 | bipolar depression mood stablizer | @ 1st the only side effect was ablity to sleep @ nite, the whole nite, now I can't sleep through, some acne more than when I was a teen, dry mouth sinus dry head aches, not as depressed, can't concentrate less impulsive better moods overall not so many different in one day :) alcohol does make me depressed and suicidal, i can still cry@ any minute, but less hopless. more edgy snap easy@ the stupidist things, around my monthly i get really angery want to break things.anxious memory loss, like what did I eat for dinner yesterday? concentration I can't even read a magizine w\o reading it 2x. | I have been on other 'antidepressants' paxil prozac, wellbutrin, plus being on the BC pill, I was very moody, bitchy violent, now I have been off any hormonal BC and taken lamictal for a little over a year slowly upping it to 200mg daily doesn't seem to be my happy medium anymore? should I see about taking anything more with it? or get it upped again? I don't know but the anger is more my problem now the being depressed? over all I like this better then anything else I just want to sleep and be able to concentrate. | F | 27 | 18 months | 6/23/2005 | 4 | partial simple seizures | dramatic weight loss, libido increase, slight cognitive loss | I loved Lamictal. It decreased my seizures by 95% and I thought it was a miracle...until it just quit working. | F | 42 | 6 weeks | 7/31/2006 | 4 | epilepsy | tremor, nausea, blurred vision | I've never felt better than I did for the first two months I was on Lamictal. Unfortunately, it did get a little weaker after that. Still, the seizure control has been pretty good, the side effects are minimal and it mellowed out my mood swings a bit. | F | 24 | 6 months | 9/8/2004 | 4 | depression, anxiety lack of energy | none. made me feel more energetic. I am also on zoloft 50 mg. | F | 48 | 5 days | 12/7/2007 | 4 | basilar migraine | Some sleepiness and fatigue, but that could also be from having chronic migraine itself. | Alleviated the drunken aspects of basilar migraine that I just couldn’t shake- the slurring, falling, dizziness, confusion. It did not clear it up entirely so it’s not a magical pill. Also I take five other preventives. But Lamictal is a significant player for me in the war on migraine. | F | 41 | 2 years 200mgs | 11/14/2017 | 4 | bipolar disorder | drowsiness, dizziness, blurred vision, confusion, brief period of activation after taking it | the large 100mg tablets are very hard to swallow and need to be coated | F | 51 | 1 years | 5/18/2004 |