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 |
| 3 | bipolar; BPD | Weight gain & water retention; clothes and shoes no longer fit after 6 weeks (having reached only 100mg...). I also developed general digestion problems as well as eyesight issues.Very frustrating because I also see the benefits of mood stabilization, but the weight gain, mental "fog" and lethargy have led me to begin weaning off of lamictal after 2 months. | F | 45 | 2 months | 5/4/2007 | 3 | anxiety | Terrible headaches, leg cramps at night, speech mixed up at times. | I am more at ease and can concentrate much better. | F | 41 | 3 days | 9/26/2007 | 3 | Bipolar, Borderline Pers. Disorder | Serious Weight Gain,Hair Loss,Itchy Skin,Buzzing In Ears,Loss of Balance and Coordination,Swelling of feet and Ankles,Loss of concentration,Lost ability to write comprehensively,No libido,Stuffy Nose,Fatigue | Did notice some benefit in regards to my depression and general mood, but all of the side effects are just not worth it. | F | 53 | 5 months | 5/12/2007 | 3 | depression and anxiety | I have dry mouth which is causing burning mouth syndrome and an extremely bitter/mettallic taste in my mouth all day and all night long. It's awful. Has anyone else experienced this? | It's been somewhat effective for the depression and anxiety. I am feeling great emotionally again but the mouth problem is making me so miserable I can barely stand it. | F | 58 | 3 months | 5/10/2007 | 3 | BiPolar II | Severe headaches. | It works and I would love to stay on it but the headaches are so bad I can hardly open my eyes. | F | 41 | 5 days | 4/10/2007 | 3 | Epilepsy | It can wear you out but that's about it. | It doesn't completely control my seizures. It's enough to make me functional though. Now that I'm reading other comments on this site, I see that the aches and pains I have may be from the years of taking this. At least I know why I'm so sore now. | F | 25 | 7 years | 7/23/2007 | 3 | ADD/mood disorder | headache, dizziness. | I was wondering when the dizziness goes away. I am on day 13 at a 25 mg dose. | F | 43 | 13 days | 6/13/2007 | 3 | Depression | itchy skin, hives, swollen lips | My psychiatrist had me take this along with Effexor. He told me to call him if I developed a rash. I didn't get a rash, but I did get hives nearly every day and my skin was constantly itchy. I started getting swollen lips when I increased from 50mg to 75mg. Disappointed because this really started to help my mood swings. | F | 22 | 15 days | 7/25/2007 | 3 | Bipolar II | When I quit Effexor (75 mg) to start Lamictal (25 mg), I was SERIOUSLY ill for about 3 days - dizzy, nauseated, headache. I couldn't function AT ALL. That went away, but then I experienced extreme depression that lasted through the ramp up to 50 mg. At 100 mg I started to feel like I was evening out, and was feeling pretty good, although I could start crying for no reason, and would become so angry at such small things that I would scream & throw things (my doctor gave me samples of Risperdal to take at the same time). Some weight gain, and that depresses me. I often have to get up in the middle of the night to urinate, and have occasional insomnia. My doctor has prescribed 50 mg Xanax at bedtime, and 25 mg in the morning, but I'll only take the morning dose if I start feeling out of control. I still have headaches, and today I'm experiencing nausea (first day ramped up to 150 mg; my doctor wants me to ramp up to 400 mg). My typing skills seem to have turned to shit. On th | I will continue taking Lamictal to the 400 mg that my doctor has recommended, unless things get really terrible. I do feel so much better than I did a month ago that I'm fairly amazed. | F | 45 | 7 weeks | 7/26/2007 | 3 | Seizures | I have severe insomnia and when I do sleep I have vivid weird and horrible dreams. I have short and long term memory loss, but don't know if it is related to the seizures that I had before starting seizure med. There is so much of my past that I cannot remember and this is hard for me to accept and deal with. I hope that one day I can get off this medicine. I took Dilantin before this and could not function at all on it. | F | 44 | 10 months | 8/10/2007 | 3 | bipolar 1 | Terrible memory fog, hard time searching for right words, weight loss in the beginning, headaches every so often, muscles pain, anxiety and major hair loss after a year. | It's a good drug, atleast for a while.The side effects lessened other than the word retrieval issues and memory fog. Although within a years time I was maxed out at 350 mg and the hair loss was noticable. I had a difficult time with school due to the memory impairment and it definately effected my self-esteem. I'm going to try topamax next. | F | 32 | 2 years | 8/26/2007 | 3 | Epilepsy | Horrible dizziness, vertigo, trouble getting words out, spacey feeling, rash like acne on face, trouble spelling words, very exhausted | had taken Depakote for years, now slowly taken off that and starting lamictal. since upping my dose to 200 mg a day (1 am/pm)my symptoms have increased dramatically especially the dizziness and feeling extremely zoned out/can't concentrate, even though I take 72mg of concerta for ADHD, now that I am taking Lamictal the concerta has not seemed to help me at all. next week I up my dosage to 400 mg...am scared that these symptoms will only worsen. I HATE this drug and want to go back on depakote..the only reason I switched was to be able to have children in the future. | F | 22 | 4 months | 3/29/2007 | 3 | migraine headaches | weakness/tingly arms (esp. right one), more bad dreams (more vivid than usual), swollen lymph nodes, dizziness/not as physically stable | I'm only on 100 mg a day, but perhaps with an increased dosage I will notice fewer migraines. (Now the migraines are down in intensity but not in frequency.) | F | 24 | 6 weeks | 10/20/2004 | 3 | bipolar II | memory loss (went away after ten days), rudeness, mania, lack of feeling, anger | at first, i loved the way it lifted my depression: i had some energy, i laughed, music sounded good, food had taste, etc. But now I've started getting really mean. i'm just saying whatever is on my mind, with no filter. It's like I'm a really energized negative person. Yuck. | F | 35 | 3 months | 12/17/2004 | 3 | Bipolar | Extremely tired, vivid nightmares, lower back pain and neck pain. I am not getting as much depressed as I used to get but I noticed that I am becomming more and more aggressive. I tend to snap alot quicker and get more easily frustrated and extremely aggitated by my family for things that wouldn't or shouldn't upset me. very drowsy | its Christmas and I just upped to 100 mg from 50 and today I am like a zombie...it got so bad that I actually am on the internet lookin up side effects of the drug in google.I don't have time to hear voices or get depressed anymore..im too tired. Merry Christmas | F | 18 | 2 months | 12/25/2004 | 3 | Unspecified Seizure Disorder | trouble sleeping, concentrating, bad memory, mood swings, shakes | taking morning and night, about a few hours before scheduled to take night dosage I get bad mood swings, possibly withdraw type effect, generally just don't feel like myself, very frustrating. | F | 22 | 1 months | 10/6/2004 | 3 | bipolar | EXCESSIVE SWEATING, bad dreams which went away..starting not to work, cycling with major depression..I take 200mg at bedtime | F | 39 | 1 days | 10/8/2004 | 3 | Bipolar II | Migraines and | I didn't feel dead on Lamictal (it was the first anti-psychotic/stabilizing med that I haven't felt dead on) but I didn't really feel any different on it (I have a history of problems with meds not working) | F | 21 | 6 weeks | 6/21/2005 | 3 | BiPolar I-rapid cycling | migraines and | I didn't feel dead on Lamictal (it was the first anti-psychotic/stabilizing med that I haven't felt dead on) but I didn't really feel any different on it (I have a history of problems with meds not working). I have to quit taking it now though---I wonder if it would have worked. | F | 21 | 6 weeks | 6/21/2005 | 3 | bipolar 1 disorder | i have become even more irritated than before and i hardly have any side effects | it is ok to take only if it works i have been on lamictal since may 20 2005 and i am currently trying to get a higher dose to see if it will work then or they might just take me off it | F | 19 | 3 months | 7/19/2005 |