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 | bipolar | the side effects are that a 30 day supply costs $396 if you don't have insurance. | Lamictal seems to work fine, but I would rather go manic and have money than spend every f'ing dime I have on medicine like this. I am so upset right now because I feel like I am being raped by these drug companies. | F | 31 | 2 months | 10/26/2007 | 1 | Depression/Anxiety | Headaches, fatigue, major irratibility, mood swings, increased anxiety, major weight gain, loss of concentration, joint and muscle pain, irregular periods, loss of sexual desire | When I first started the "starter" pack, I thought this stuff was great. I had been on Wellbutrin and it had puttered out and wasn't effective anymore. My Lamictal was increased to 150mg about 4 months ago and I have had a terrible time ever since. I kept trying to give it time to do it's thing, but I'm going to request that my doctor take me off of it ASAP. I'm miserable and the side effects are not worth it at all! I don't recommend this drug to anyone who has had luck with Welbutrin before. I was told that it would be basically the same thing and it hasn't by any stretch of the imagination. I go through terrible mood swings and my boyfriend thinks I'm losing my mind sometimes. I'm on a Lamictal/Paxil cocktail and so at first we thought the weight gain was from the Paxil. We lowered that dose and I'm still gaining weight. My psychiatrist assured me that weight gain wasn't a side effect but after reading several of these posts, I know that I'm not crazy anymore to | F | 33 | 6 months | 10/23/2007 | 1 | Rapid Bipolar II | Hand tremors, twitching, rash, loss of balance, speech impairment, hair loss, can't sleep. Shakey writing, can't spell very well, typing is out the door. | M | 47 | 3 months | 10/18/2007 | 1 | bi-polar | rash within a week and now has covered my whole body | F | 57 | 12 days | 10/13/2007 | 1 | Type II | Where do I start? | Back to Depakote | M | 38 | 6 months | 10/9/2007 | 1 | Bipolar I Disorder | Large, itchy rash; swollen lymph glands (allergic reaction) | Lamictal seemed like a miracle drug. I took 50mg (gradually increased from 12.5mg every other day) of Lamictal, 1250mg of Depakote, 100mg of Seroquel, and 1mg of Xanax XR. I felt the effects almost immediately and for the first time in years a medication actually made me feel "normal" again. But I developed an allergic reaction (I've read as much as 10% of the people who take Lamictal develop a mild rash) to the medication that very quickly got worse. When I stopped taking the medication at my doctor's request I became manic and didn't sleep for four days straight. I'm now on 300mg of Seroquel just to get me back to where I was before Lamictal and I take 600mg of lithium as well. It's difficult to give this medication such a low rating because it really did help me a great deal, but my rash still hasn't gone away and I'm having worse problems with mania than I did before I started taking the medication. | M | 22 | 3 months | 9/21/2007 | 1 | Bipolar I | Made my anxiety horrible. Spells of feeling like I was going crazy. Nasty rash I needed to take a Medrol pack for. | Back to Depakote ER for me. This is worse than Dilantin or Tegretol. uuggggh. | M | 37 | 6 months | 8/26/2007 | 1 | bi polar 2 | extremely disoriented, vision problems, stumbling alot, little bumps on my chest and back. At times I was unaware of where I was. Nausea, shaking and twitching at bedtime so bad that I couldn't sleep for days on end. My legs uncontrollably moved in a major way. I wanted to kill most everyone due to irritability, and I am not that way ever. I started Lithium at the same time, and after I stopped taking this I felt better only hours later. I took this Lamictal for 3 weeks, and was out of commission nearly everyday. It's a guinea pig drug, and is only approved by the FDA for epilepsy anyway. I have to start school in a week, so I quit taking it, and I can function now. I don't recommend taking this drug for a single thing. It nearly killed me because I almost got ran over crossing the street. | F | 20 | 3 weeks | 8/14/2007 | 1 | Epilepsy | Very aggressive. Loss of short time memory. Creepy payns like ants crauling underneeth my skin. Payns in the joints. Opstipation. Musclecontraktions and convultions. | When young I underwent military combattraining in a forreign country. That meens when loosing my mind completely as the result of Lamictal treatment, I turned from a kind loving person to a dangerous monster because I didn*t remember what doing. One week after starting treatment I became State property in a high security ward. There I smashed the furniture, dishes and attacked the staff, and when the doctor asked me I couldn*t tell the day, and I hardly remembered my name. And I also became so goodharted that I gave away money to complete unknown persons because I felt pity for people who hadn*t got cigarettes. I tried desperately to tell the staff the medicine made me crazy, but noone belived me until after being forced to take this, (also with a letter from the local police that gave me drinking prohibition and order to follow up medication), I became severely ill and got a high fever. I felt I was burning from inside and I was in agony. Then the doctors reacted, and I had been on th | F | 53 | 2 months | 8/10/2007 | 1 | depression | massive hair loss, change in hair texture (wiry, dry) lack of patience, irritability,crying jags, facial and neck rashes, itchy, red, swollen eyelids. | I HONESTLY DO NOT BELIEVE THIS DRUG SHOULD BE PRESCRIBED FOR DEPRESSION. A series of various rashes can occur at any time, whether you have reached your "therapeutic" (God KNOWS what that is) DO NOT let your doctor tell you that you are bipolar if you have NO MANIC symptoms!!! If you just have depression, Lamictal is NOT the drug for you! and adding it on to "help" your antidepressant only insures that you will add on more side effects, and more trouble getting off of yet another drug. I have weaned my self off of lamictal as of this past Wednesday, waiting five days to "clean out", then starting a low dose of Lexapro if I feel that I need to continue a med. | F | 50 | 7 months | 8/3/2007 | 1 | deprssion | confusion, sore, neck hurts, itchy skin, inceased depression, yeast infection, dry mouth, increase of appetite | F | 52 | 3 days | 7/30/2007 | 1 | Bipolar | Constant state of fatigue, lack of sexual desire, short term memory loss. I am obsessed with the desire to sleep - anywhere, anytime. | Mood swings were better, however side affects are intolerable. I am weening myself off of lamictal. | F | 38 | 2 years | 7/29/2007 | 1 | Slight Mood Disorder, OCD, | Tired ALL the time; Zombie like state, Can't articulate or concentrate, blurred vision, swollen ankles, 10 pound weight loss (YAY!), the most IRRITABLE I've ever been in my entire life | I was on Celexa for what I was told was a slight mood disorder about 7 years ago; I would get irrationally angry and upset over little things. I am now seeing a new psych, that wants to take me off of celexa, she says being on it for that long that has made me immune to it's effectiveness (anyone ever hear of that?). So I am weaning off of Celexa (I was at 60mg, tapering down and now I'm on 20mg, and she wants me totally off of it), and upping the Lamictal. Started at 25mg, gradually increasing to 100mg, but I am on 75mg at this point. I hate it. I am super cranky at the littlest things. I don't know though if it's because I'm taking less Celexa, or if it's the Lamictal! I'm just SUPER cranky and hate everyone and everything (slight exaggeration, but that is my general mood, at least when I can stay awake!) Please email me if you have any insights or help. Thanks!! | F | 43 | 1 months | 7/21/2007 | 1 | Bi-Polar | READ!! I had HORRIBLE side effects with Lamictal. Itchy, irritated skin, Swelling and numbness of throat and toung, ACNE to the worst level, Burning eyes, and WEIGHT GAIN. I was on 300 mg once these side effects came on strong...please be careful of these side effects. | I'm on Zoloft now and it works great! | M | 22 | 4 times | 7/20/2007 | 1 | Bipolar | Hair loss, loss of sexual desire, lack of emotion, extreme loss of short term memory, slurred speech, and insomnia. I went from excessive mood swings to a zombified state. | I found out that Lamictal can also build up in your eyes and toxify them. I stopped taking it very soon after. I wouldn't recommend this drug to anyone | M | 23 | 7 months | 7/2/2007 | 1 | bipolar disorder | THIS STUFF IS EVIL! dizzy, insomnia, hazy feeling, coordination problems, disconnected feeling, night sweats, nightmares, speech and memory problems, balance problems, nausea, termors/shakiness.. jeessh is there anything else?? | WARNING: this stuff is poison! i got worse and worse until i figured out what was causing it. as my dosage got upped, i got gradually worse. it got so bad i couldnt even leave the house, couldnt drive, or perform normal basic functions. withdrawl is even worse, i was on this for a little over 3 months and i stopped it a few days ago. its been almost 4 days of hell now. DONT SAY I DIDNT WARN YA! | M | 34 | 4 months | 6/27/2007 | 1 | cyclic mood disorder | Extreme fatigue and clumsyness, fever, frequent urinating, trouble expressing myself talking and writing, lots of spelling mistakes, forgetting, feeling like a zombie, constantly misplacing things, burning eyes. | I hate it!!!! I feel like half my brain has been burned away. I sometimes feel like a total idiot. I used to be pretty smart, but I don't feel like that anymore. After taking it in the morning, I can't function for about five or more hours, because I am so tired. I am on 400 mg now, my doc wants to get me up to a "therapeutic dose" of 500 to 700 mg. By then I can just as well stay in bed all day and night because I won't be able to do anything anymore. I will get a second opinion from another doctor, I can't live like this. | F | 48 | 5 months | 6/24/2007 | 1 | Unipolar/Bipolar? | Started with mild fluid retention, then cognitive problems, swelling in limbs, tingling in hands and feet, cold, mixed up unclear thoughts, forgetful,over emotional. THEN....muscle cramping and spasms along with extreme fluid in legs and stomach - stopped being able to walk without cramping legs and extreme pain. 3 sizes larger in 5 months. Understand, I am an avid biker, aerobics, and fitness oriented person. And I was only looking for a rash... | Not enough information on the pharmacy handout. Dr. never mentioned physical side effects other than rash. This went on way to long, thought it was everything but this med....High Half life, hard to get out of system. Happy for those that can take this, I truly think we are not getting the full low down and information on this one...way to scarey | F | 51 | 5 months | 6/14/2007 | 1 | Bipolar II | Sensitive stomach, severe depression, crying, inability to inarticulate, very hard to get up in the morning, urge to sleep all day for hours. | I am still furious about what I went thru with this drug. Furious. I have been on SSRI's for 12 years and what Lamictal made me feel was how depressed I was before being on SSRI's. It's been 5 days now since I've been off Lamictal and I'm still trying to get back to normal. I finally have my normal, hopeful, optimistic mood back but I haven't been able to articulate as well which is frustrating. I began a job 3 days ago but couldn't cope with it because of withdrawing from this horrible medication. I feel like a guinea pig with this. Like they just throw meds at people after meeting them twice. Then when I finally had presence of mind to call Dr's office, his horrible assistant chastised and criticized me for going off the drug at all. And for not calling them about it on a Saturday night. That's a whole other issue, her abusiveness. So I'm still on my Lexapro which I've had great luck with. My Dr. still thinks I'm bipolar II so I'm sure they'll try to give me something else soon and I | F | 42 | 11 days | 6/1/2007 | 1 | Bipolar/BPD | Slurred Speech within 1 week of starting. My husband rushed my to the ER thinking I'd had a stroke (I'm 29). After two days of rest, I was able to start speaking somewhat normally. NEVER TAKE, not worth the risk. Try Trileptal--few side effects. | Do not take if you can help it! | F | 19 | 7 days | 5/27/2007 |