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 | Bi Polar | Started on 25mg for 2 weeks- little spacey..for first 3 days. After 2 weeks I have had very vivid dreams- kinda fun. Increased sex drive, lots of energy and very focused! i thought this med saved my life..... THEN came the rash after 3 days on 50 mg. This is today my feet are swollen and extreamly itchy, the rash has spread all over my body and I just want to roll in the dirt to scratch my self! I have not gone to the doctor yet... I am going to give it a little bit and see if it gets better. OH my phy took me off the meds! now I don't know what I am going to do- I loved it. | M | 26 | 30 days | 3/26/2007 | 3 | BP II | Developed deep acne and had gum abcesses I never have. Wasn't going to wait for the big rash which I thought was next. Told p-doc about problems and she took me off Lamictal right away. No infections since off the med. | I loved the drug. It helped my mental function, but wasnt worth the side effects. | M | 49 | 30 days | 3/27/2007 | 3 | bi boplar depression | sleepiness, red eyes | M | 44 | 18 days | 8/10/2006 | 3 | Epilepsy | Problems with 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 | 3 | because of bipolar depression sdr | Stomach pain, head ache, agressivitity raising during weeks 5-6, dos 100 mg, only want to sleep, or beeing awake 48 hrs. Unable to do anything, I don't care of nothing. | Hard to tell so far, because less than 8 weeks gone from starting | M | 44 | 6 weeks | 7/25/2005 | 3 | Bi Polar, Depression | Dry mouth and constant thirst, extreme insomnia, blurred vision, constant nigh time urination, Zombie-ism caused by fatigue! | I've taken Lamictal for 5 years with a 1 year break, trying it with several different medications. I'm now on it alone as a mood stabilizer (given up on the depression, nothing works for me so far) and the side effects have become much worse. People tell me that I don't get angry so easily so I've stayed on it... the one bit of advice I can give is that in the beginning, for the first 2 years or so, I couldn't be creative, which is what I do for a living, I struggled to write and find the right words - that has gotten better over time and I would say that I'm back to normal in that department after 5 years. Of course lethargy and fatigue are still problems, but once I get started I find that my creativity is there. My major problems now with the drug are the insomnia (and the Zombie-like fatigue it causes), dry mouth and thirst. 3 hours is the average and I'm constantly peeing... every 30 minutes. If the insomnia continues and the fatigue gets worse, I may have to go off of it. I must | M | 43 | 5 years | 5/14/2007 | 3 | Bi Polar | Brief "High", 2 week Insomnia, Word loss, Loss of "good" feeling after 2 weeks. Rating should be 3 1/2. | It started off Great. I felt almost Manic for 2 weeks after starting. Unable to get that feeling again. Now I have trouble finding the right word and find that I write in more simple sentences. My emails look like a series of individual sentences, instead of compound or complex thoughts. I frequently have to delete words or parts of Emails after I reread them as the right words seem to eventually come to the surface. Somewhat foggy and depressed after 45 days on it. Currently at 200Mg after doing starter pack, been at 200mg for the past week. The "high" you feel at first is elusive. You'll try to get that feeling back, but it won't come. I can't believe I had it with 25 mg, but can't get it back with 200 mg. When I started I was weaning myself off Lexapro. Maybe that contributed to the "high". I wonder if Lexapro and Lamictal can/should be mixed? | M | 39 | 45 days | 8/7/2007 | 3 | epilepsy | Difficulty in word finding- articulating, and I sometimes stumble quite a bit in speech, mental fogginess, and some memory difficulties. | I can't tell you how happy I am to find this site. I've been telling my neurologist about my increasing problems with words for years, and he says "Hmm..." I've never seen or heard of this problem being attributed to lamictal. I found this site looking for anyone with memory or concentration problems. All these are listed several times here. I will soon be off this med. | M | 36 | 3 years | 9/19/2007 | 3 | Depression/Anxiety | Blured vision, not as smart or as sharp. Jumble my words in speach and when typing. Mood swings worse, very irratable. also had rash at the begining at 150mg | 6 months down the road, At one time I was at 150 mg but a rash came and had to drop down to 50mg, 50mg works best for me. Too high of a dose and I get more depressed and irratable. Along with being very tired. At 50mg the drug did take me out of the hell of depression but I am still depressed. I also take clonipin and ativan mixed. About 4 mg a day of that. That helps a lot. I have tried all other anti depresants with no results what so ever. I want to know if anyone knows the LONG TERM SIDE AFFECTS Lamictal. I feel stupid sometimes. I used to be sharp as a tac and very smart. I feel a lot slower and not as sharp now. I do not take any other drugs. Oh and my doc thinks I might be a slight bi polar as well. I dont think so from I read about it. PLEASE EMAIL ME WITH YOUR THOUGHTS. | M | 40 | 6 days | 9/19/2007 | 3 | Depression/Anxiety | No noticeable negative side effects as of yet. | I received a starter pack and I am on the 3rd week. Currently I am taking 2X25MG pills every evening. I will eventually dose up to 300MG. The only thing I noticed so far is that I am easily sidetracked at work. Sometimes I lose a thought right in the middle. I have more sudden outbursts of anger than normal for me. So far my doctor told me that is probably situational and not the medications because I am at such a low dose for my size. I do notice that my emotions no longer distract me from doing my job. I am way more focused and productive than I was before with the exceptions of getting sidetracked with other work. Also, it is much easier for me to turn off thoughts that I don't want to think about. | M | 35 | 3 weeks | 7/24/2007 | 3 | chronic depression | insomnia, night sweats, vivid dreams, mild rash, acne, mild cognitive & memory problems, possibly others... | I am only taking a small dosage of 75mg/day but the side effects are still quite bothersome. It seems to help my depression, but I am also taking parnate so I am not quite sure which drug is causing what effect. | M | 20 | 6 months | 10/17/2007 | 3 | Bi polar II | Significant hair loss. Didn't notice until a couple of months ago. hope this will get better. some dermatitis (redness) around my nose, upper lip and eyebrows but this has resolved. | I feel so much less agitated than I did when on the SSRIs. Overall, aside from the hair loss, I'm pretty optimistic about it. | M | 32 | 10 months | 3/2/2007 | 3 | Depression | Insomnia, Significant Weight Loss, Loss of Appetite, Nausea, Trouble Concentrating, Headaches, Back/Neck Pain, Occasional Itching | I'm trying hard to give this drug a chance but the side effects are making this difficult. I'm getting about 4 hours of sleep at night and I've lost 20 pounds in 3 months! The problem I'm having with just dropping this medication is that the drug does seem to help a good bit with mood & depression. My doctor started me with 25mg and moved me almost immediately to 100mg. He has agreed to drop my dosage to 50mg do to the side effects. Hopefully this will help. | M | 35 | 3.5 months | 4/26/2007 | 3 | Severe Panic | Lethargy, inability to concentrate for long periods of time and social carelessness. | I have been taking 900mg (2x200mg in morning and 2.5x200mg at bedtime) for about 2 years. I was on a lesser dose the years before. I have had a rough time but not sure if it is Lamictal or the other drugs. I have used topomax and lyrica. Both had side effects that were awful. Topomax - could not sweat and no libido. Lyrica - weight gain like mad and it simply did not work weel. Plus it made me really sleepy. I guess Lamictal is ok..but it alone was useless. | M | 40 | 5 years | 4/27/2007 | 3 | Epilepsy | Hair Loss, Memory Loss, Constantly being nervous, speech problems | still deciding if it's really worth it??? | M | 21 | 4 years | 2/15/2005 | 3 | Epilepsy (Grand Mal Seizures) | Hair Loss, Memory Loss, Constantly being nervous, speech problems | still deciding if it's really worth it??? | M | 21 | 4 years | 2/15/2005 | 3 | depression | Nasty side effects. Hair loss (shedding), acne, occasional diarrhea, cognitive problems, night sweats, vivid dreams, poor circulation during sleep (body parts fall asleep), mild rash in beginning. | Take from 25-50mg per day. It seems to help my depression but the side effects are terrible. I can't seem to wean off it without becoming depressed again. I also take parnate 50mg. | M | 20 | 8 months | 1/14/2008 | 3 | Bipolar I | hair loss, weight gane, cranky, bad acne like bumps on my face. | I'm taking 200mg of Lamictal in the morning. It does seem to help with the more deppressive side of my bipolar. It does however let me cycle into Mania alot. Witch is ok because it does take the edge off. Of course at this moment my only option left is Depakote and I have heard nothing but horrible things about that. I have taken so many things its not even funny. So basically it works but the side effects suck | M | 24 | 5 months | 12/4/2007 | 3 | Bipolar | Initially none. After 6 months many, severe anxiety, shortness of breath, dizziness, trouble concentrating, increased depression... | This drug was great for about 8 months and then it all went bad. I had severe shortness of breath, severe anxiety and dizziness. I honestly thought I had a bad heart. I read some comments and found other people had similar reactions after 6 or so months. I went off the drug immediately. After about a week of hell, coming off the drug, all my symptoms went away...what a relief. | M | 41 | 8 months | 12/4/2007 | 3 | Bi Polar 2 | I posted 2 months ago. I have had a dosage increase to 75 MG in the AM and 100 MG in the PM. I now have random flu-like symptoms but a bit more painful in the muscles with no stuffy head. The benefits of the medication are so great for me that I just try to slug through it...since it only tends to last a few days. | I am on on Seroquel as well, but was having these side effects before adding Seroquel. Email me if you have any questions. | M | 30 | 9 months | 11/19/2007 |