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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LAMICTAL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | Switched from Keppra to Lamictal 5 moths ago. Similar side effects, such as neck pain and sexual dysfunction(not inability, just less pleasureful). a slight boost emotionally, but my lifes problems still cause depression. Some suicidal thoughts, no rash or unusual itching. I really have no complaints. Take Lamotrigine(generic). | M | 56 | 150 days 100 2X day | 6/15/2010 | 3 | Anxiety | DREAMS- these dreams were possibly some of the most vivid/sought out dreams i have ever experienced in my life... almost as if i went to sleep while I was on a hallucinogenic of some type. Body Aches, Sore stomach. | It gets the job done... but is it worth the side effects? | M | 16 | 14 days 25 2X day | 8/6/2010 | 3 | Bipolar | head ache, trouble talking sometimes, forgetful | M | 35 | 2 years 200 1X day | 8/27/2010 | 3 | Bipolar NOS | Problems with word recall, short term memory loss, fatigue, loss of interest in almost everything, lack of concentration, severe cognitive decline...This drug did even out my mood except that I'm on an emotional flatland, really tired and this drug has made me so stupid that even simple things look like a challenge. I'm on 400 mg of Lamictal, 20 mg of abilify, 30 mg Buspar, and 300 mg of Seroquel XR. You can read my blog where I update my experience with drugs and manic depression... | M | 35 | 6 months 200 2X day | 7/29/2010 | 3 | depersonalization and depression | No side effects of note which is good. | After being so hopefull early on in treatment, I am now on the fence as to whether or not this medication is really helping or going to help. After a slight response on 25mgs and a really promising response on 50mgs, I have yet to regain the initial benefit. Though my moods are okay, I still have a good deal of dissociation. Given my history with medication perhaps I'll need to go higher (possibly up to 400mgs or even higher)or add an SSRI as I've heard the combination can be quite effective. My doctor wants to wait another couple of weeks before deciding to up the dose or try something else. I would really rather not have to go back on SSRI due to possible weight gain and sexual side effects. But based on the past, they have been quite effective for me, which leads me to believe serotonin plays a major role in my disorder | M | 42 | 2 months 200 1X day | 9/23/2010 Patient History | 3 | Anxiety, PTSD, OCD, Depression | very hot memory loss (short term) can't concentrate can't sleep at night even with ambien 3-4 hrs at most want to nap all the time lower sex drive very dizzy/fuzzy faintness numbness (lightning shooting down from head to neck to arms and hands...pins/needles type feeling) brain flashes just like in the movies(if that makes sense) really bad headaches (worst headaches every) head aches with orgasm aggitated/angry severe anxiety very vivid dreams (very real, almost like halucinating) | Currently on Pristic, Lamictal, and Ambien. After being depressed/anxious forever I use to have problems getting to sleep and then have problems waking up. Now with Lamictal and Ambien I go to sleep immediately and wake up approximately 3-4 hours later every night. I think that is driving me more crazy than any of my actual crazy. Sex drive is down a little bit, but it use to be very high. I just got taken off Paxiva. Couldn't have an orgasm with it and I think that was adding to my anxiety a little bit. I do, however, think my wife enjoyed it until she realized it was bothering me a lot. I can't remember anything. Names, words, memories, they pretty much escape me. I have the same conversations with the same people multiple times. Most people just humor me and let me tell them again. Its really getting embarrassing. Almost to the point that I don't even want to talk to anyway, fearing I may have already talked to them about it. The dizziness, pin/needles, and brain flashes aren't really that fun either. I get these really odd flashes when I move my eyes or head sometimes. Almost like someone just took a picture in my eyes. That is usually followed by some weird 110 volt electricity running from my head to my fingertips. I've never fainted in my life, but I have almost fainted twice since taking this. I think I accidently took 2 of these one night when I meant to take 2 Zoloft and I think I nearly died. I don't remember going to bed and my wife said I was | M | 35 | 2 months 150 MG 1X day | 10/17/2010 | 3 | depressin bipolar | memory loss, tremmors, shaking hands,lack of sleep | i have cut back to 50 MG per day. Im seeing the dr this wekk i want to try Celexa | M | 50 | 1 years 100 1X day | 12/5/2010 | 3 | Bi-polar | Some itching in the beginning but could be psychosomatic. | I am able to think more clearly. Less of the thoughts racing. Easier verbal communication. But it's nothing amazing to tell the truth. I'm coming off SNRI's and SSRI's. So compared with the "bubble" those antidepressants cause, this is a mild drug (thus far). | M | 31 | 3 months 150 1X day | 2/14/2013 | 3 | Bipolar Disorder | hypomania on titration, stomach cramps, headaches, diarrhea, nausea. All went away after the first few months. | M | 21 | 2 years 200mg | 9/5/2012 | 3 | siezures | no clear side effects | switched my son to Lamictal after Depakote caused severe fatigue. Seizure free until another occured and then we upped his dose. Had 20 months siezure free until he had another one. Might have had a growth spurt or weight gain that required a new dose. Reading all these opinions and different side effects is making me really scared. Siezures also cause him to dislocate his shoulders. Please write if anyone experienced this and what you did. | M | 18 | 3 days | 9/20/2005 | 3 | Bi Polar, Mood Swings | Vivid Dreams, Heart Racing at night, waking up alot, kind of like paxil withdrawl all over again. Itching has started, but mild! | Ok, been taking it for 7 days now, wicked worried about rash, I mean I have mixed feelings on the issue. I am at 25mg and experiencing vivid dreams, and waking up with heart racing, just like with paxil. Also, now ichting, but not terrible, more worse when i read about this drug or my mind thinks about it, but no rash so far.... Debating on continue taking it... | M | 28 | 7 days | 2/6/2006 | 3 | Yes | I have been on this medication for several years now. Dry mouth, insomnia, memory loss, some kinds of cognitive loss, reduced sense of smell & overall sensory perception. All these go away within 2 days if I stop the medication so I doubt I am imagining it. There IS withdrawal if I miss a dose for more than a few days and for me, it consists of acute anxiety accompanied by some confusion and irritability. | So, with all of this, why the heck would I continue with it? Because it has not caused any sexual side effects (important for me) and keeps my mood relatively stable without causing me to become completely numb and disconnected to the world as other medications have. However, withdrawal symptons are a MAJOR problem if I miss a few doses and this potential scares me if I were to lose the bottle during a nice vacation. | M | 41 | 3 years | 12/22/2005 | 3 | Bipolar | 200 mg/day. Occasional enhanced manic states, insomnia, fatigue. | Helped with depression somewhat, but often mania was made worse as well as anxiety and sleeplessness. That said, it is the bipolar medication that has worked best for me so far. | M | 26 | 4 months | 5/23/2006 | 3 | Bipolar I | Severe short-term memory loss--can't lay down anything unless I burn it into my memory. Sometime I cannot remember what I did that day, but definitely cannot remember specific events of the previous day and recalling specific events prior to that is almost improbable. Long term memory is the only thing untouched, for now. Verbal loss in that I know what word I want ot say, yet the word eludes me. If someone is using vocabulary that is more extensive, I get lost VERY easily. Easily confused if the task invovles more than 2 or 3 steps. Math is almost impossible. If doing a repeative task, my mind wonders almost immdiately, something never experienced in past. | Things are so different on this drug. The world is much more lucid. I skip cycles and go weeks without any mood abnormality. Life is great on lamictal. However, the cognative side effects are starting to disclose themselves more drastically. My psch. thinks it is just my dyslexia, but I have never experienced this kind of memory loss. I really don't know what to think. My thoughts are VERY LUCID and I feel VERY much grounded in reality; however, this memory loss it out of control. I will go to work, and not remember certain events during the day or the events are out of order; also, I will read a passage, understand its conclusion, and 5 mins later, cannot remember what I read. | M | 26 | 1.5 days | 4/10/2006 | 3 | Anxiety control | Zoloft - ON ITS OWN - fatigue. Combined with Strattera: MASSIVE HEART RATE (110 standing, 160 with very mild exertion). Massive sweating, even when sitting at the computer terminal. Incredible fatigue. Fluid leaking... | Zoloft, on its own, works great. Apart from some serious fatigue. The Doctor, when telling me to go off, gave nothing to compensate for the withdrawl effects... Several months later, I tried it again but I had started Strattera for my ADD. Do not mix Zoloft with Strattera EVER - it might kill you and I do not exaggerate. See the side-effects above. But I noticed, with the other side-effects, semen leakage after urinating. I told the shrink who summarily thought it was an STD; 4 humiliating hours at the clinic plus 2 weeks' waiting, the tests came back negative and nobody bothered to follow up or continue to ask questions. When using Zoloft on its own: 2 months. When I tried it with Strattera, 1 week - the side effects started 2 days after taking it, but I kept getting told "keep taking the medicine, it will get better after a month or so." (sorry, thanks to prior usage I know enough the drug was killing me. It's like they don't listen...) | M | 33 | 60 days | 11/17/2005 | 3 | Depression-Seizures?-Memory loss | This is prescribed with Ritalin, Klonopin and my thyroid pill and an occassional Ambien, Do any of you have a swimming in the head feeling like a fish is swimming from the back sides of your head toward the front, thats how my seizures? start, I think this was mainly prescribed for the seizures if they are seizures, my BP went low when i went to ER, side effects for me are vision changes, have to use differnt glasses for nite driving, and I get so hot at times I have to turn the air up to 74 degrees. | I think it helps with the anxiety I feel regarding my short term memory loss, i take ritalin but do not believe i should be taking ritalin at 55 yrs of age, when i never had attentiion defecit, but then again i have bad brain fog in the morning I cannot concentrate, my memory loss and brain fog started 10 yrs ago, i still blame this on quitting the Deproprovera shots, but of course the doc's think i am nuts. I have taken up to 400 mg aday 200 mg 2 x day but it was too much and i felt ill and too tired. I now take 100 mg 2 X a day, and i can tell at night when it wears off, i either get real moody, or PO, ususally i forget the time so i sometimes take it after the anxiety and mood sets in | M | 55 | 2 years | 10/10/2007 | 3 | Rapid Cycling BP 2 | Hair loss. Its been one month and its getting worse and worse. I just started taking selenium and zinc which supposedly slows down or stops hair loss. It really sucks though because this medicine has really helped stabilize the mood swings and calm down the anxiety. | Started working the 2nd day I took it. if it didn't cause such alarming hair loss I'd say its great. | M | 19 | 1 months | 8/21/2007 | 3 | Bipolar 2, ultrarapid cycling | Slightly blurred vision in left eye, insomnia, night sweats, vivid nightmares, word recollection. | I've found the overall lamictal experience pretty good. I suffered the loss of my dad and granddad since beginning the medicine, a definite root/major trigger. It allowed me to grieve in the way i wanted to, without sending me into the depression followed by a manic episode (like before meds). The night sweats suck, b/c i can never find the right temperature, especially in light of the insomnia. Since i have eczema, i was definitely expecting the rashes, but they've not come. The nightmares are pretty freaky, and are so startling that i wake up sitting upright (even though i sleep on my side). Although i've felt down and up at times, its within the normal range (whatever that is...). | M | 28 | 2.5 months | 4/20/2006 | 3 | bipolar 2 | I can't spell to save my life now and I have problems putting thoughts together. It has definitely made me feel less confident in my vocal and written skills. I am debating whether to stay on it or not, however the depression has definitely taken a back seat. I had no major physical reactions to it, just the mental ones, and I have definitely been in a very hard time recently where I would have been in a very bad place without it. I have been able to lose weight on it whereas the Zoloft/Lithium blend I was on previously made me gain 45lbs and it didn't help me at all. | M | 30 | 6 months | 7/4/2006 | 3 | Epilepsy | Memory loss - short term extending into long term. Reading, learning, vocabulary, calculations and describing/eplaining things to people. The problem is that i don't know if it is epilepsy or the drug or brain tumor. I hate not knowing. | It does the job but it has such a short half-life. if i go 12 - 18 hours without, partial it is. Any longer and my brain is a bomb ready to go off/I'm waiting for a full scale unconciousness so i try to have them scattered in as many places as posible. It does the job. | M | 27 | 8 years | 2/14/2007 |