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 |
| 1 | Mood Stabilizer | Wormhole to Alzeheimers | Can't remember faces, words, moments or anything else. Extreme awareness of lowered cognitive ability. While conversing with others, people seem to recognize I'm having trouble following their thoughts and logic. Easily distracted. | M | 4 months | 8/1/2008 | 1 | Partial Seizures | Burning in my hands, arms, back...rash. | Too bad - I thought it was going to be a great drug. All the doctors said it had few side effects and was kind of a mood stabilizer. Pay close attention to the burning sensations and rash. | M | 45 | 12 days | 7/3/2009 | 1 | Cyclothemia | I took this for a year and the following occured: rashes, blurred vision, insomnia, anxiety (extreme), combative comments with co-workers and people in general and to top it off at times I honestlt thought I was going to go crazy. | This drug is overrated and nonsense. I needed a mood stabilizer, not some hybrid version of an antidepressant. It's an anticonvulsant yes, but it does nothing CONSISTENTLY for anxiety and mania. I suggest people who like this drug to take 300mg of Dilantin daily. It costs nothing and acts the same way, calm one minute, crazy the next. I would give it a minus if I could. I took it for a year and gave it it's chance. I am on something else now with a fraction of the side effects. How I managed to keep my job I'll never know. | M | 29 | 1 years | 9/11/2009 | 1 | Temporal Lobe Epilepsy | Weight gain, extreme irritability, tremor, loss of sex drive, wild mood swings, stomach pain, insomnia. | HORRIBLE. I've been on numerous AED's, and besides Zonegran, this is the worst one. Does next to nothing for seizure control. | M | 33 | 2 years | 10/14/2009 | 1 | Depression/anxiety | Anxiety,worsened depression, stiff neck, flu like, sore throat, lowered immune system, hip pain, urination, dry skin, stuffy nose, insomnia, headaches, memory issues, hair graying/loss. I think the ceo's of companies caught hiding negative info about their drugs should get life in prison/death penalty. The whole system is corrupt IMHO. | I was on this briefly years ago with reasonable results...but that was the name brand. I started to develop some depression due partly to a partner that had anger/control issues. Started taking this again but this time it was generic Teva which is beyond garbage. It caught me off guard because I didn't realize generic meds are a joke and it made everything much worse, it lowered my immune system so much that getting a cold felt like pneumonia.I constantly felt like I was on the verge of getting a cold or fly and had no idea that the drug was causing this at all, especially when it worked pretty good before. I firmly believe all generic meds should be thoroughly tested and not just given the green light because of the brand name being approved. The other problem is I think GSK has some info about this med that they never released to the public and with their horrific track record of corruption, no one should be surprised. I'm also a firm believer that psychiatry is the dirty secret of medicine and the way dangerous meds are approved there is zero interest in public safety. If you look at the side effects of this med you see only occasional reports of memory loss or hair loss but , reading the reviews of actual people taking it you see a completely different story. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that someone must be hiding the truth about these meds because you don't see hair loss listed as a common side effect but it seems to come up here pretty often... | M | 41 | 2 years | 1/5/2016 | 1 | mood stabilizer | Severe vertigo. Learned lamictal is a sodium channel blocker and vertigo is caused by a sodium imbalance. Mind feel stuffed with cotton or tin foil on different days. No help in stabilizing mood. | Tapering down 2-5 mg every 2-3 months for two years now. Be very careful tapering down - life feels very futile for a few days so surround yourself with lot's of comfort and safety. it takes several weeks to normalize when I go down 5 mg. I'm at 20 mg/day now and hope to be done by the end of 2016. | M | 53 | 7 years 100 mg 1X day | 2/26/2016 | 1 | Took lamictal for bipolar disorder | Drug induced lupus and severe burning through the skin | To anybody that wants to take this drug if you're on it for a long time it will lower your immune system and induced lupus at the same time ask your doctor your doctor should tell you | M | 40 | 1 days 100 millig | 7/5/2015 | 1 | Bipolar II | Trouble finding words, trouble reading, loss of sense of humor, feel stupid, extreme difficulty making all types of decisions, loss of interest and excitement. | I am now on an ADHD medication which has helped and made me positive, social, and motivated. I still have all these things present though, as I haven't been able to get off this drug yet. I break down and cry all the time because of how boring I have become and how I am such a shell of my former self. And, frequently, there are days where I feel so stupid I don't know what to do with myself. For example, I can be sitting on the couch, stuck in a position, with absolutely no idea what I am doing or what my intentions are, and it becomes terrifying to choose, say, whether to wash my hands or brush my teeth, even though I only need to do the latter. I am very often confused, and everything except the current day feels like it happened last week. I suppose it doesn't sound severe, but it is very debilitating and I feel so empty, like a bunch of my personality is missing. I will note that this got WORSE over the period of time I've been using it, not better, and worse as the dosage was increased as well. | M | 16 | 9 months 100 MG 1X day | 4/14/2013 | 1 | Mood Level, Anxiety, Depression | Short term memory problems. Weepiness. "Cloudy" type fatigue. Desire to sleep all day long. | Psych insists I stay on this med. I am about to put my foot down and insist that I come off it. It is not doing me any good, in fact I believe it is causing the previously mentioned undesirable side effects. The best it is doing is producing expensive urine. It certainly is not leveling off my mood swings. if it works for you I am very happy for you, for me, I'm wasting some very hard earned money. | M | 55 | 2.5 years 200 2X day | 11/22/2013 | 1 | Seizure disorder | Difficulty walking properly, feeling foggy and like I might fall, dizziness ( vertigo) memory issues. | Physician pressures me to take thinks I may have seizure | M | 80 | 1 years 175 mg day 2X day | 11/24/2021 | 1 | Depression/Anxiety | Insomnia, Increased anxiety and depression always in low moods , terrible so far think I will go off it | Have worse back pain , heart palpitations at times double vision would not recommend it to anyone | M | 65 | 7 weeks 75mg up to 2X day | 6/28/2023 | 1 | Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar II | Restlessness, Insomnia, Worsening Depression and Anxiety, Serious negative interactions with Cannabis use | M | 23 | 10 days 100 1X day | 4/2/2023 | 1 | Anxiety | Dehydration, dry mouth, some itching, gas, | Trying to get off it, | M | 55 | 7 months 100 mg. 1X day | 11/20/2020 | 1 | Bipolar II | I took this drug about 7 years ago and now I have random muscle spasms all over my body throughout the day. Consumer Beware! | M | 3 months 1X day | 1/22/2021 | 1 | Depression | Lots of side effects! Hair loss, lowered immune function, memory problems, cognitive issues, sleep problems and urinary frequency | Okay, the people that talk about these insane side effects and then say they will never stop taking it...what's the deal with that? You like your brain slowly getting shut down? You like becoming stupid? You like losing your hair? This is silly, if your problems were that bad that you can live with the above side effects along with full on mental retardation...I don't know what to say! Losing your brain but at least your whatever is controlled is a terrible trade off. For some people this stuff works great but for others it is a death sentence waiting to happen. Teva generic=100% side effects and zero benefits. This stuff nearly killed me and it's unfortunate that it didn't because what I have left to work with isn't worth it. | M | 39 | 2 years | 2/20/2017 | 1 | PTSD, Anxiety, depression | Lamictal, Xanax .5/1.0 mg,seraquil horrible! Depression. Has worsened co stantly tired. Constantly having mood changes. My doctor feels that this is a gold nugget to treat my problems and seems as if he will not listen when I tell him these things it is not recommended by me. I am always sluggish, feeling depressed, feel even worse about the ability to have a successful and productive life. Literally the only thing that makes me at all feel better is when my adrenaline starts to pump when I see my wife and daughter. I asked to simply be put back on my ADHD medication. But, for some reason and was told that ADHD medication was for a certain age group. Which makes no sense seeing how I'm 26 and it is technically classified as ADD. So, now I'm on all of these medications that create a worse mental environment for me. Which is causing my inability to have the results I initially intended. So I'm basically a lab rat for testing lamictal. When I went in for an emergency meeting I was given a higher dose of Xanax. I'm not understanding why I would be given medications that are creating a worse mental state for me along with multiple side effects. When I had informed my doctor that my ADHD medication made me the best I could be. Anti depressant yeah right more depressant. I have another appointment soon and am still taking the dosage I was told (except the seraquil horrible horrible creation by the way) even if I get a good 8 hrs. I'm still exhausted within 30-60 minutes of waking up | I'm happy for the websites that have all of these people saying how great it is. The one I was reading before this one every rating 7-10 about how great and effective it is. Then I come to this one and almost everyone is on the same page with me. I'm not understanding the bias. Should I switch to a more understanding doctor who is actually more interested in assisting instead of forcing and always seeming as if he only has a couple seconds to talk to me because he has another patient. It kind of makes me think possibly it's all about the money. Maybe I made a bad choice in selecting, or maybe I'm rushing to judgment. I do know however the way I felt before taking these medications and the way I feel while taking them and it's worse. How can someone forcefully tell me how I'm feeling on certain medications! | M | 26 | 1 days | 1/2/2017 | 1 | Doctor misdiagnosed me | Side effects: severe ringing of ears, balance loss, severe fatigue, can’t sleep, weakness, tremors, can’t think, can’t process other medications and vitamins, loss of muscle, vision issues, etc. I have over 20 side effects, and I’ve never had them before usage of this drug. I can’t work, can’t have a relationship, and I’ve seen lots of specialists who say I’m in perfect health. Is there anyone else out there like me? I need help. | M | 42 | 3 years 50mg | 10/5/2019 |