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 |
| 2 | Bipolar II | Experienced a lot of hair loss. Initially felt good the first week and then quite depressed and hopeless the second week taking it. | I am not sure if this can be attributed to lamictal, but since I stopped taking it, I have been more irritable/on-edge than ever w/ racing thoughts and it's been hard for me to fall asleep. | F | 17 | 2 weeks | 12/31/2008 | 2 | BiPolar2 | Itchy - insomnia. Feeling of rage and I am more likely to tell someone off. Hostility. Feeling that people are staring at me...paranoid. lack of coordination. Muscle pain. Vertigo. | There were times I felt this was really helping me, and then I felt like it turned on me. I felt anger inside and an undercurrent of rage. I told people off and used the middle finger on the road quite a bit. I believe my motorcycle crash was directly related to my inability to judge my speed and braking - impaired feeling when driving. | M | 45 | 1 years | 12/30/2008 | 2 | simple partial seizures/epilepsy | hand tremors, occasional double vision,sexual disfunction, and of course I still have those seizures. | I have had seizures since the age of 15 and have been on almost every drug and drug study possible. I had left tempral lobe surgery twice with no luck and a vagal nerve stimuator, again with no luck. My doctor recently put me on lamictal and I have had an increase in tremors and started to notice erectile disfunction and my wife and I have finally figured out what the problem was. | M | 44 | 9 months | 12/29/2008 | 2 | bipolar | severe acne on face, back, and chest | It worked really well for me mentally, but I couldn't take the only side effect it gave me, which was acne. All over my face, back, and chest and no matter what products I used, it persisted. I stopped taking it and now my face it completely clear. Other than that, which to me was a really big turn off, it gave me energy and stabilized my mood great. I'm on geodon now, but I'm extremely tired so I'm going to switch to something else. Hopefully I'll find the right medication. | F | 23 | 5 months | 12/25/2008 | 2 | mood stabilizer | severe, severe back pain, can not stand up due to pain. Headache and nausea if I don't eat. Eating makes me feel sick as well | As soon as I stopped the medication I felt better. | M | 17 | 2 days | 12/21/2008 | 2 | siezures | Like most people, I read the pharmacy information on Lamictal when I got on it, and then forgot about it. Two months later I developed mouth, dental, fever, lymph problems and more. Neither the dentist, nor oral surgeon could figure out why I had a solid two months of pain after a tooth extraction. I re-read the pharmacy information on Lamictal, and we figured it out. My Doctor pulled me off it immediately. | I take responsibility for not being up on the Lamictal information, but I blame the manufacturer that the dentist and oral surgeon did not identify the problem. Lamictal was listed by me on sign-in data sheets in both offices. Dental cost #585, and a pain even oxycotten could not stop. | M | 59 | 4 months | 12/17/2008 | 2 | Mood Stabilize | Sexual dysfunction, attention deficit, short term memory loss, hair loss, insomnia, spaced out. | 200mg dose, Lamictal worked very well initially to my satisfaction. However over 3 yrs of taking lamictal, the side effects have increased, to the point that I either want to go off the drug, or reduce my dosage. I was on 100mg for the first 18 months without any of the side effects I'm experiencing now. Latest is development of erectile dysfunction which I (and my partner) find intolerable. Ironically, hair loss and sexual dysfunction side-effects are now contributing to increased depression. An early side effect was loss of retention (I need to learn many things quickly in my job) and attention deficit to the point of ADHT. This affects my concentration (ability to function in my job), ability to read and relate clearly to people. The jittery side effects have caused panic attacks and insomnia for which I take xanax and ambien, with added side effects. I feel this is a spiraling increase of problems, and I'm not sure what to do. I think I'll back off the lamictal and stay on Wellbutr | M | 53 | 3 years | 12/14/2008 | 2 | "Bipolar II" | Initially no problems but over time vision problems, memory problems, difficulty spelling, reading, and typing. | I've been taking Lamictal for 6 months. Initially no problems except the usual clumsiness and intial short-term memory loss. Then at 6 months I got hit with a bunch of side effects including mental fogginess, feeling "spacey" ALL the time, vision problems, problems with word recall and spelling, reading and typing. I'm A MESS and i'm getting of it ASAP. p.s. This is just MY experience. Many people find this drug enormously helpful but for a few of us there are major cognitive and perceptual problems that make it hard to function. | M | 34 | 6 months | 11/28/2008 | 2 | Bipolar | memory loss, trouble finding the right words, tremors, developed a studder, irritability, slurring of speech, feeling "not right" | I guess it's helping with my mood, but I am not sure the good is outweighing the bad. There has GOT to be another medication for me! | F | 35 | 3 months | 11/20/2008 | 2 | Epilepsy (Partial Complex) | Loss of libido - this was a gradual thing that happened over about 3 years until it completely disappeared - have since changed to Keppra but libido still hasn't come back. Also taking Neurontin which has made me lose the ability to orgasm. Other bad things: loss of personality & creativity, tiredness, memory loss. | These drugs have ruined my sex-life and I'm only 25! I am so depressed. I feel like a total alien. It's really annoying that I have to keep taking epilepsy meds even though I only had 1 seizure...4 years ago! I have MS too. My only advice to epilepsy sufferers taking Lamictal is to be aware that if it starts reducing your drive (even slightly) then change meds straight away cos you don't want this to happen to you! I would do anything to get mine back! | F | 25 | 3 years | 10/14/2008 | 2 | schizoaffective disorder | diarrhoea | prescribed for depression along with lithium and zyprexa | M | 40 | 3 months | 10/12/2008 | 2 | depression | extreme tiredness sleep about 14 hours a day. Also take Wellbutrin XL 450mg and doesn't counteract the effects. Have gained about 20 pounds and is impossible to lose!!! Lost a little hair in the beginning. Stabilization properties worked, because my mood was always around a 3-4 some days were normal at 5 (1 is extremely depressed, 10 is super manic) This med kept me at straight 3. Couldn't function and had no good days whatsoever. Had no antidepressant properties for me. | I will be getting off this med, will be 2 years this fall. sought antidepressant and required stablilizer because Prozac put me hypomanic. (not dx as BP becuase only been manic as result of drug. it is highly suspected though). The Wellbutrin XL in combination with the Lamictal put me right back to where I was before I started meds. Not happy ever, so days sad and angry and ready to give up. I was upset about the weight gain, but after adding the Wellbutrin my mood was so flat I didn't care. Stayed on it so long because I quit smoking! I am going to try Abilify. | F | 32 | 2 years | 9/9/2008 | 2 | Bipolar Type 2 | Weight gain! I gained like 40 pounds, and it may not be the Lamictal but I didn't gain weight until I got on it. Very vivid dreams. Night sweats. Slight loss of sex drive. When I reached the dose of 200 mg that I'm on now, I started getting really bad headaches every day. Short term memory loss. People will tell me their names and 30 seconds later I can't remember what they are. I've met people and a week later I don't remember meeting them. Difficulty concentrating. Feeling nauseous in the morning when I wake up, especially if I haven't gotten 8 hours of sleep or more (and I've been on this for a year!). Having a VERY difficult time getting out of bed in the morning if I miss more than 2 days of the medication. I sleep through my alarm and wake up hours late for work having no recollection of turning my alarm off. | I thought I was crazy when I started noticing these side effects but seeing people saying the same things are happening to them makes me want to get off this drug. I'm seeing my psychiatrist next week and I'm getting off of it. I'm not even sure I'm bipolar because there were a lot of factors going on when I was diagnosed and I'm not going to stay on something with this many side effects if I don't have something really going on. I'm not happy with this medication. | F | 20 | 1 years | 7/31/2008 | 2 | Epilepsy | Memory loss, fatigue, severe nighttime jaw clenching, acne. I have heat and sun sensitivity - I hate being outside in the heat, and I'm unable to sit outside at all without getting severely sunburned. I am unable to put into words what I want to say, and it's hard for me to remember how to spell things. Loss of sex drive, moody, cry easily. | I was on an extremely high dosage, but now I'm down to 100 mg twice a day. The Lamictal wasn't helping at all, but Keppra 1000mg twice a day was added, so I've been completely seizure free for 6 months. I would like to go completely off the Lamictal, but my doctor doesn't want me to. I guess he knows best, though! | F | 30 | 8 months | 7/21/2008 | 2 | BiPolar II | Worst first: Aggravated my Migraine. Headaches started getting worse and more frequent few days into 75 mgs dose. I just increased my Inderal, which has shielded me from migraine efficiently. I hit the 100 mgs dose of Lamictal, and my head felt like it was in a vice for what now seems to be forever. No doc would say for sure it was Lamictal. They said maybe barometric pressure, maybe having eliminated Emsam. I now believe it is Lamictal. I have been on steroids a week. No barometric pressure migraine ever resisted Prednisone high dosage. Other side effects: not finding my words (I'm a lawyer), and sweating (and smelling) profusely. Weight-neutral for me. | Really wish I could stay on it. It was never clear to my psychiatrist (even with good second opinions), whether I was major depressive unipolar, or a soft bipolar. Either way, Lamictal helped. My brain felt at peace, when before it would not stop. My mood was better. I had no "I wish I were dead" days or nights. I was optimistic, for God' sake, never happened to me before on an SSRI. I was stable mood-wise. And I hated the not-finding-my-words, and I hated the sweating. But I might have stayed with it. I am going to try and see what happens to my headaches at 50 mgs, and if I still get a mood benefit. I take no other psychotropic medications. All these benefits in mood improvement came from Lamictal alone, so did the headaches..... | F | 50 | 4 months | 7/4/2008 | 2 | mood swings | F | 24 | 2 days | 6/1/2008 | 2 | bipolar 2 | headache, dizzyness, blurred vision, a feeling of "spaceness", difficulty focusing. Side effects continue, though to a lesser degree, 3+ weeks after discontinuing Lamictal 25mp @ hs (really a tiny dosage). | Lamictal certainly helped W/ irritability & anxiety but the side effects prevented continuation much less an incease in dosage. | M | 60 | 30 days | 5/29/2008 | 2 | Bipolar | Blurred vision, photophobia, inability to form proper sentences, short-term memory loss, some weight gain, lethargy, fatigue, crying spells, extremely vivid dreams, trembling hands, buzzing/trembling feeling in my legs at night, loss of creativity, break-outs, hyper-sensitivity, overall flatness, felt like I was in a constant fog. | I quit taking Lamictal over a week ago and I am FINALLY feeling like me again. I had never been on any sort of meds before, and after a very rough year, I went to a psych dr. and was put on Lamictal. I don't recommend this drug unless you are really out of control. It dumbed-down my whole life. I felt like a zombie who could barely speak. And I basically felt like crap...I am glad I tried it, but I am sticking to yoga and meditation to keep me centered. I am so happy to be off of the stuff. It feels so awesome to be experiencing life again and feeling healthy. | F | 39 | 7 months | 5/29/2008 | 2 | depression-anxiety | over all itchy feeling-especially head, heat flashes, over all gross feeling, muscle aches | I have also been diagnosed by one professional with bi-polar and then another has said not so sure of that...anyway, have only taken five pills (5 nights) also take ambien cr (12.5) mg for sleep.....had the night food cravings under control (which the ambien brings on)...but with this new med (lamictal) just can not control them and have started eating late at night/early morning again.......one of the worst things is I wake up in the middle of the night with the worst case of acid indigestion...and have to take quite a few tums/rolaids to get rid of this and takes an hour or two to get back to sleep.....not the med for me.......many years ago I used a wonderful suppliment called "levity" and am going to go back on this and see what happens......no side affects and it did help quite a bit... | F | 47 | 5 days | 5/26/2008 | 2 | Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy | If you want me to briefly everything bad they wrote read... I gained more weight than 10 pounds. i went on birth control... went anorexic/severe depression/anxiety attacks(not as bad now) because the interaction went from size 20 to a 6 in 3 months and i went from perfect teeth to all my molars are cavities...the weight is back dont be jealous. migraines daily, sunlight hurts causes head aches, loud noises cause painful ear aches, sex hurts, shortness of breth from the freaking out of my heart beating to fast | my neurologist wont prescribe me anymore meds cause they interact with the 2 i'm on so bad.... depression and everything is horrible... skin is crawling, aching, memory gone, i went from an A student to barely passing high school with c's & d's .... so i hate it 400mg daily .... zonegran 400 mg daily dr tells me she wont change it cause it works for the seizures i'm the one suffering though. i would rather have a seizure those i dont feel all day i've been on it forever diagnosed at 12 tried ...tegretol, neurotin previously with other dr's CURE IS WORSE THAN THE CAUSE SOMETIMES | F | 24 | 9 years | 5/25/2008 |