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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LAMICTAL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | severe mood swings, depression | Felt like my soul had died. Dead, emotionally numb. Zero interest in any activity. | This may work for others, but I will never touch it again. | M | 46 | 6 weeks 50mg 2X day | 9/28/2012 | 2 | partial seizures | horrible, itchy rash on my arms | doc told me to call if i experienced any type of rash, which could be serious. i don't think i took it for long enough to know if it controlled my partial seizures. | F | 47 | 5 days 50 mg 2X day | 8/26/2012 | 2 | Issues with stabilizing moods | Fatigue, irritability, mood swings, emptiness, increased sexual urges, inability to fall back asleep after waking up spontaneously, waking up with sore neck, occasional sore throat, carelessness, confusion, lost of interest. | I have been taking the generic form of Lamical (Lamogtrine) for around 2 months. At this moment in time I feel as if this drug has ruined my life! I had problems with depression and stabilizing my moods before taking Lamictal, but I was relatively sane compared to how I am now. Firstly, I am very empty and feel that my existence is zombie-like. I don't have any sense of compassion or sympathy. I've been with my boyfriend for almost ten months and we had such a strong relationship before this medicine, but now we almost go our seperate ways three times+ a day because I never seem to be able to make up my mind. I was paranoid that he was going to leave me prior to Lamictal, but now the tables have turned completely and he's trying to keep a hold on me but I fear I'm going to do something stupid. I go from loving him, being so infatuated, convinced we're going to have a future to doubt that we're going to last and I'm unsure if I love him or even care about him at all. It's a horrible thing to admit and I'm ashamed I don't have a grasp on my own emotions anymore. I am so confused and just want to remember how I felt before taking this terrible medicine. I was so sure that I was going to become a fitness trainer/nutritionist, and carefully controlled what I consumed as well as tried to keep fit...I had DREAMS...GOALS! But now, I don't even attempt to stay healthy or trim. No career seems to appeal to me, and nothing really entertains me anymore. Things I once loved and had intere | F | 17 | 2 months 25-50 1X day | 8/22/2012 | 2 | Bipolar 2 | Do not take this stuff unless you want to feel like an emotionless zombie floating thru life and never really enjoying it. I'm trying to convince my psychiatrist to take me off of this medication cause I really want to feel like 'myself' again. My outgoing personality has vanished and I have no motivation or anything that makes me feel 'truly' happy anymore. Even sex has lost my excitement. I can't wait to get off this stuff and get my personality back!!! | F | 19 | 3 years 300MG 1X day | 7/6/2012 | 2 | Bi Polar - Racing Thoughts | TERRIBLE Muscle spasms, trouble seeing at night, blurred vision, muscle soreness, cramping muscles ( I am physically active and I'd get cramps after 5 min of walking in feet and legs when taking lamictal) Vivid horrible nightmares that feel real, feeling completely indifferent. | almost 2 months ago I started lamictal combined with celexa and it's been increasingly miserable for me ever since i started. After 3 weeks I started taking 50 Mg a day but went back to 25 quickly after the side effects i listed all got far worse and I would feel terribly sick and feel like fainting. Since going back to 25 the side effects are still pretty bad and I'm simply waiting to see my doctor again to switch to something else. It indeed does help with Racing thoughts but these side effects are sometimes debilitating especially the muscle spasms and pain. Not worth taking at all. Feels like there are bruises forming on my arms at all times. | M | 22 | 40 days 25 MG 1X day | 4/28/2012 | 2 | antiepileptic | Hair thinning,I get extremly worked within a minute I can go from 0percent to 100 percent.I have to then try to calm myself down I become anvious to quick.short term memory loss,I could forget where I left something even if it was just 5minutes ago. | F | 35 | 10 years 200mg | 1/27/2012 | 2 | Bipolar 1 | This medication did not prevent my manias or depressions. In fact I had a manic episode almost severe enough to land me in the hospital. It made no effect whatsoever on my bipolar. | F | 29 | 5 months 100 mg 1X day | 11/9/2011 | 2 | Depression | Awful hot flashes and increased sweating; increased clitoral sensitivity | F | 29 | 81 days 150 1X day | 11/4/2011 | 2 | Epilepsy | auras, fuzzy feeling, fogginess, lack if clarity, odd tingling in head when close to time to take next dose, edginess, forgetfulness, weight gain, depression, anxiety, hunger | I was on Tegretol and wish I could have stayed on it, but after over ten years it started messing with my sodium levels, so I went on Topomax, which I also wish I stayed on. But my fiance and I decided to try and get pregnant, and after consulting with my neurologist, we went with Lamictal to reduce any risk to the baby. I HATED IT. I felt "off" all the time, and never, ever felt normal. Within three hours of the time I had to take my next pill, I was already edgy and having auras. We tried for a while, but it didn't work out, which is too bad, but I'm back on the Topomax, which is good. | F | 41 | 2 years 50 2X day | 10/22/2011 | 2 | Migraine Prevention | Day 12: Fever, stiff neck, muscle aches, and nausea, flushed. Day 13: Fever 102, nausea, red rash on chest, upper arms, upper back, face. (medication discountinued) Day 14: Fever 101, rash on torso, upper arms, neck, face, thighs. Day 14: fever 99, rash on entire body, mostly bright red everywhere. | I have intractable migraines from sun exposure on my skin. I'm practically trapped inside my house because even covering up with darkroom blackout fabric that leaves my face exposed results in migraines from sun reflection on my face off of cars, the sidewalk, etc. We tried Lamictal after neurontin and topomax didn't work for me (I'm also on 125 mg amitryptilene and 120 mg propanolol ER but we can't go up on those doses, and I get botox every 3 months). I was started on 25 mg lamictal in the morning and 25 mg in the evening. I didn't know at the time that this was twice the recommended starting dose. I got a rash on day 12 with a fever. The rash kept growing even though the fever kept going down. On the third day of the rash (a holiday), my neuro sent me to the ER with an all-over body rash. It was just slightly itchy and painful. All the staff kept coming in to look at me because they had never seen a lamictal rash before. The ER sent me home with a prescription for prednisone and the suggestion to put lidocaine on the rash to reduce pain and itchiness. They said there was no reason to believe the prednisone would work, but it's not risky so we might as well try it. Lidocaine made me insanely itchy! I couldn't sleep. I washed it off, but that didn't help. That was yesterday. I took a shower today and am still crazy itchy, but the rash is finally pulling back a little--it's still all over my body, but more splotchy instead of solid red. | F | 43 | 13 days 25 2X day | 9/6/2011 | 2 | mood stabilizer | hair loss, bitchiness, loss of appetite, increased depression | Perhaps I'm not at the "therapeutic dose" yet, but at this dose I'm a complete bitch and more depressed than every. Even 450 of Wellbutrin can't compensate. And clumps of hair are coming out every day in the shower and I've got thin hair as it is. I shudder to consider going on Depakote - would I rather be bald or big as a house? Lithium is not an option as I am already hypothyroid. | F | 48 | 3 months 100 1X day | 8/10/2011 | 2 | bpd- to regulate my moods | nausea, headache, insomnia, muscle spasms, unable to concentrate, trouble with speech, trouble finding the correct words when speaking, memory loss,drowsy/sleepy, suicidal thoughts, severe mood change (couldn't get along with anyone), anxiety, things didn't taste the same,some dizziness | Well, if you want to quit smoking, then maybe you should try this med, as I've been smoking for 22 years and when I started taking this med, cigarettes suddenly tasted nasty. I've drastically decreased the amount of cigs I smoke and am nearly about to quit for good which is a good thing. In fact it's the only good thing that's come from me taking lamictal. When my doctor increased my dosage from 25mg to 50mg for a couple of weeks, I became very suicidal, had terrible insomnia, severe mood change (and i don't mean better moods, but worse moods). My doctor then decreased me back to 25 mg and those certain things that I mentioned are not so bad anymore. I honestly do not think that lamictal has helped my moods what so ever. | F | 37 | 2 months 25 1X day | 7/30/2011 | 2 | Bipolar/BPD/bulimia | headache, dry eyes, insomnia | I was put on this drug because my antidepressants were not working anymore and I was having episodes of mania. I'm not sure if I can say this drug is going to work for me or not because I've only been taking it for 3 weeks and at a low dose but if things don't change quick, I don't know what to do. I don't feel depressed, but I find myself crying at times when I'm not even sad. I have way more manic episodes but i'm not sure if that's just because I'm noticing what those feeling are now? I want to up the dose and wait awhile before I can say this drug works for me or not. | F | 25 | 3 weeks 50 MG 1X day | 7/15/2011 | 2 | Bipolar II | Increased moods, stayed irritated, higher dose gives me irregular heartbeats. | After being on this drug for 3 years I decided to stop taken them, I was not getting any better, seems over the years I was getting much worst. Now that I've been off for a month now, I feel great, mood and irrtibility is fine, the chronic pain I live with just makes my mood bad, a mood stablizer can't change what pain does to our body, I also became a Diabetic unaware of it and went into a Coma for a week and hospitalized for a month, loss majority of my vision, kidney problems and now living with nerve damage. I do not recomend anyone to stop taking there meds without your doctors recomendation, I did because I was tired of my Psy taking me around in circles. Had to be in charge of my own body and how I felt. | F | 46 | 3 years 150 2X day | 5/16/2011 | 2 | Bipolar | Bruise on outer left thigh which continued to spread. Dark and light spots. Embarressing to wear shorts in the summer. Moods were still not stable. High doses gives me irregular heartbeat. | Lamictal does not seem to be effective in controlling my moods, I can't remember things, problems concetrating, can't describe things I want to say, seems I can't find the correct words to use like a brain freeze. Continue to have 2-3 nights without any sleep, went 5 nights straight without sleep before and Lamictal is suppose to help with these cycles and don't. I continue to be on a rage and doctors have difficulties perscribing me anything else due to my body rejects numerous of these medications. The depression and insomina is ongoing. I take Ambien for sleep and tried over 20 anti-depression meds that I reject or get terrible side effects to the point I have to discontinue them. Lamictal is the only drug that gives me less problems only if I stay under 200mg. The bruise that occured on my outer thigh, doctors states they have never heard of it or seen such thing. I have proved it as in when I was hospitalized for a month, I was not given any Lamictal at all, the bruise went away, I began taken them again and next thing I knew the bruise came back. Now my doctor is saying I need to go see a Derm doctor and see if they can give me some type of cream, lol yeah ok. Not recomended but I stopped taking them about a week ago and I seem to be fine thus far. | F | 47 | 2 years 75MG 2X day | 4/27/2011 | 2 | Major depression, unipolar | Using wrong words a lot when began at low dose, then compulsive nighttime behavior, like staying up until 4 am googling things. Could not stop even though I was exhausted (no previous history of complusive behavior) then acne (no history of acne, even during adolescence) did not help depression at all. Chills. | Was prescribed due to the fact that my depression seemed to be recurrent and cyclical, even though I have no history of anything like hypomania or mania. I didn't even get up to a "therapeutic dose" because I was staying up all night, feeling worse by the day, and many troublesome side effects at even a very low dose. No history of senitivites to meds. Sort of awful experience. | F | 42 | 1 months 50 1X day | 4/13/2011 | 2 | Epilepsy | I am a healthy, fit athlete. I started on Lamicatal 6 months ago. It is one of the most side-effect riddled drugs I have ever encountered. Acne for the first two months, hot flashes, crazy wild vivid dreams, dizziness and at 200mg I now have constant abdominal pain which has been going on for over 3 months. I have hade every test known to man trying to find a cause of the stomach problems....and nothing has shown up. I have to get off this crazy drug before it turns me insane and takes over my otherwise healthy body and mind. Yes, Lamictal does works in most cases, but the whole ranhe and freqeuency of side effects rules this out for me.....no more. | M | 45 | 6 months 100mg 2X day | 3/23/2011 | 2 | bipolar disorder | I developed severe acne, out of nowhere. Whereas I used to be highly motivated, I became very lazy feeling and began wanting to sleep and lay around a lot more. Gained 20 to 25 pounds, weighing the heaviest in my life. Often felt stupid, as everything in my mind was foggy. It sucked. It sometimes helped with my mood swings, but still was often depressed and would still get manic highs. My sex drive decreased slightly (as i used to be hypersexual). I'm now off of it and feel much better cognitively. Emotionally, I am more out-of-whack, having difficulty if I do not cry everyday and I still need to have sex. It's much more difficult for me to achieve orgasm, though it was very easy for me to prior to taking Lamictal :( | don't take it! unless you would like to even out your mood swings in exchange for weight gain, acne and constantly being aloof. | F | 20 | 3 years 400 mg 1X day | 3/22/2011 | 2 | Bipolar/PTSD/OCD | Inability to orgasm, loss of sex drive, vivid nightmares, lethargy, back pain, swollen lymph node, weight gain. | I was recently on Abilify which completely eliminated my OCD to the point where I didn't care about anything, and made me gain weight, so I was switched to Lamictal. At first I didn't notice much, but shortly after I realized I couldn't have an orgasm, and was completely uninterested in sex. I work out a lot and still seem to gain weight. The nightmares are horrible and I have several each night. I've developed a large bump in my neck that is a swollen node, and my back and neck constantly hurt. It does stabilize my mood somewhat, but not enough to endure the side effects. Always exhausted as well. | F | 32 | 21 days 50mg x 2 1X day | 3/18/2011 | 2 | Depression - major | Weight gain | Made me feel dysthymic. Didn't really assist with alleviation of depression. Going to switch med's. | M | 38 | 60 days 125 MG 1X day | 3/16/2011 |