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 | PTSD | Made me sleepy and embarrassing I woke up every 2 hrs. When I reached the 100mg I thought I had to urinate every 2 hours but I was shocked when I never did urinate when I thought I would. Honestly, it felt like I was having an orgasm from hell. Never stopped day or night. Women will know the feeling I am speaking of. Heck I haven't had sex in 20's so it took awhile for me to figure out what the sensation was I was getting woken up with. I guess I had an odd side effect but my Dr. said that it does have that effect on a small number. | It works for PTSD if you can get up to 200mgs. without strange side effect. | F | 67 | 2 months 100mg. 1X day | 7/17/2020 | 1 | Bipolar | Lockjaw , headaches, Itching , Horrible drug | 47 | 14 days 25 | 6/15/2020 | 1 | bipolar depression | dosage may be inaccurate but. it was very small insomnia - took my body a month to start sleeping properly. could be up for 3 days straight. bad acne started around two months. extremely bad headaches started to scare me so I stopped taking it | I havent taken lamictal in 2-3 months now. and NOW I have the side effect of feeling like bugs are crawling on me. To the point I have bad anxiety, sit up turn the light on theres nothing there.. lay back down.. same thing again a minute or so later. Just hoping it goes away because its making my anxiety awful. but im glad someone else said it was a side effect because my paranoia is driving me insane | F | 25 | 6 months 25mg 1X day | 6/10/2020 | 1 | Central pain Syndrome | Save yourself! Terrible drug! It caused severe damage to my intestines. I have severe intestional spasms!!! There are not words to describe the amount of pain! Excruciating doesn't come close!! My suffering is caused by Lamotrigene!!!! I ubered to the is hospital because of this drug! I had no intestinal issues ever until this drug Now i have inflamation in my intestines and silent reflux, from Lamotrigine i can not eat anything acidic or spicy. I am praying this damage is NOT permanent. Or IT HAS DESTROYED MY LIFE! From this day forward I will read the fine print side effects!! I have been off this drug for 6 months intestines are still spasming! | Other side effects I experienced were a very dry parched mouth no matter how much you drank your mouth is dry that's awful then I started losing my balance. | F | 58 | 3 months 25 mg | 1/12/2020 | 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 | 1 | They thought anxiety and depression | Horrible headaches, fatigue that can be dehabilitating, brain fog! Digestive issues. Can’t get out if bed... | When will anyone admit that sometimes these drugs just add more problems and we throw more drugs at the bad symptoms? I tried cold turkey and wow! God help me. I have to go back to 50 mg for two weeks and then 25 fir another two weeks. Anyone have issues getting off of this drug??? Please email me! God bless and always be careful of these drugs. They are not proven and this site is awesome to support more widespread knowledge and not just what you doctor thinks with a smaller group test results! Pray and stand up for yourself if not working!! These drugs are fairly new and this industry is nowhere like other medical field | 55 | 9 days 200 | 9/5/2019 | 1 | Bi-polor | I have been short of breath for 5 days body cramps nauseated panicking consistently panic attacks up to 10 times a day | Lamictal says nothing about these side effects on any of their sites this medication is the devil | F | 36 | 12 months 125mg | 8/21/2017 | 1 | Bipolar 2 | Jaw grinding, fatigue, nausea, loss of appetite, increased anxiety, dry mouth, headaches, hot flashes, panic attacks | My doctor told me that this was a toxic drug for me, that I was allergic to it. I withdrew from it after 6 weeks of Hell | F | 57 | 6 weeks 50 mg 1X day | 8/2/2017 | 1 | Vestibular migraines | Fever after single dose. I am very hypersensitive to medications, this was no exception. | F | 35 | 1 days 10 mg 1X day | 7/31/2017 | 1 | Mood stabilization | 11 days into taking Lamictal I had noticed a rash on the top of both of my thighs. It didn't itch or anything so I didn't think much of it. Cut to later that evening after noticing the rash on my thighs I came home experiencing severe chills despite gorgeous spring weather, not a half an hour later I had a fever of a 101.8. My body started hurting in ways that I didn't know were possible. Very flu-like without any of the other flu-like symptoms. Rheumatoid like pain. I had no runny nose, no sore throat, no congestion. The next day the rash had spread up into my arms, chest, and face. The pain that I was feeling in my body left me completely unable to sleep and my fever had spiked to 102.6 at which poiny I started to have a nose bleed. I haven't had a nose bleed since childhood. I went to my primary care physician and she told me to stop taking the Lamictal immediately. The subscribing psychiatrist of the medication didn't return my call for three days and told me to stop taking the medication and to start taking Benadryl. I went to my dermatologist the day after my primary care and she said this rash is very common and luckily it was not the Steven Johnson syndrome and prescribed prednisone taper. Still felt the intense pain and yet another full night of No Sleep. It got to the point where I had to go to the emergency room, where they had to give me a morphine and Benadryl drip. That was the only thing that relieved the pain. I am now going on four days not being able to work | F | 34 | 2 days 25 mg | 4/13/2017 | 1 | Bipolar type 2 | Migraine, hot flashes, shakes, blurry vision and nausea | Would not wish that combination on anybody | F | 17 | 2 weeks 50 mg | 3/7/2017 | 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 | For bipolar | Soreness, achy, tremors, depression | This medicine made my hands and head shake, it also made me depressed. I did not feel enthusiastic or good about anything. I was sore all over, taking it with milk helped the side effects a little but still unsteady and shaky. | F | 34 | 3 weeks 50mg | 12/25/2016 | 1 | Bp2 | Only took one tablet. Already taking sertraline for depression. I reacted badly. Within an hour of taking it I was filled with extreme anger and hatred towards myself! I was head butting things. Punching myself. I was wanted to seriously hurt myself. Had thought of stabbing my self in the leg and kept scratching my face! At one point I was sitting on the floor crying and rocking uncontrollably about 6 hours later after taking the tablet I suddenly became a dribbling mess. Slurring speech. Movements uncoordinated and very numb. Felt really tired. For two days walking shuffling the feet and all movements are slow. Speech is still slurring. I'm an ex junkie and I have taken lots of illegal drugs in the past and NONE of them made me feel like this one has. Never taking them again! | F | 44 | 1 days 25mg | 7/14/2016 | 1 | Bipolar | I tried to come off this medication,I went crazy,doing things crazy as round the house.talking out s loud and packing bags dressing up to have fun for kids to learn about Jesus. going from my home to my neighbors home being silly. | F | 54 | 1 days | 5/17/2016 | 1 | Very bad med. Horrible med caused severe knees and joint pain, chill and goose bump, dry mouth, fatigue, weight gain. Advice all patients never take this med. | F | 64 | 10 days | 3/3/2016 | 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 | Seizures | Muscle aches and pains like crazy. Not able to sleep more than 2 hours at a time during the night yet very sleepy during the day. | Made me feel angry and anxious, frustration. Felt like I had the flu. Called my doctor this morning telling him that I cannot take it. | F | 60 | 10 days 25 milligr | 2/5/2016 | 1 | Seizures | Muscle aches and pains like crazy. Not able to sleep more than 2 hours at a time during the night yet very sleepy during the day. | Made me feel angry and anxious, frustration. Felt like I had the flu. Called my doctor this morning telling him that I cannot take it. | F | 60 | 10 days 25 milligr | 2/5/2016 |