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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LAMICTAL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | Bipolar II | Flat feeling (although perhaps simply in comparison to how emotionally sharp--i.e. sensitive and oscillating--I am usually), some confusion and time lapse sensations upon dose increase. Also very mild acne on back. Some irritability | I've been working up to 100 mg for about 3 or 4 weeks. My reaction to stressful situations has improved dramatically, although I do have days where I feel very detached and experience a kind of feeling of 'un-reality.' I wonder if this is simply because of how used to having mood swings I am, but I do feel like my personality has become blunted. Have to admit that I'm thinking about discontinuing. | 23 | 4 weeks | 3/15/2009 | 3 | Diagnosed as Bi-Polar | dry mouth, lips. Hair dryed out, upset stomach, hart burn and finally bladder infection. | I was doing really well at first from 25 to 50 than 100 MG. Than shortly after the increase to 150 MG I started to experience heart burn. Now I have a bladder infection. I decieded to ween my self off of Lamictal. I not longer have heart burn the dry mouth but now have the bladder infection to deal with. | F | 58 | 6 months | 1/23/2009 | 3 | Bipolar11 Psychotic | I find that it makes me have pain in my hips and legs also I experienced bad neck and shoulder pain yesterday for the first time. I have been taking the 25 mg for 3 weeks now and will be going up to the 50 mg this week. I like that I feel more clear headed from it and it controls the anger to a point, I have had some minor outbursts the first week from it and some memory issues. I don't like the pain I am getting and if it keeps it up I will probally go back to depakote. I stopped the depakote because the Dr. said I was sleeping way too much and I could not stand how hungry I was all the time and the xtra weight I put on. After reading through all the side effects I am hoping that I will be one of the lucky ones and it will help me and the pain issues will go away as I cannot take the pain like this. | I guess I will give it a longer trial period and I'll post any new side effects, or if the worst side effects go away with an increase of medicine, because I see some say the dosage can make a big difference. As for now I'll grin and bear the pain. | F | 49 | 3 weeks | 1/19/2009 | 3 | Depression | Nap attacks, night sweats, acne all over, hair loss, itchy scalp, eye twitching, severe constipation, anxiety. | 100 mg twice a day. It is useful -- but the side-affects never receded. Ever. I wasted all those years and all that money going to dermatologists, etc. Not one physician in any field I went to knew anything comprehensive or definitive about the physical side affects. | F | 49 | 6 years | 1/19/2009 | 3 | Mood Stabalizer | Weight Gain, Irritabilty/Depression when I miss a dose | Lamictal by far has been the best mood stabalizer for me, however I am stuggling with the weight gain. Since February its been about 15 lbs. I'm thinking about switching meds because I delt with extreme weight gain before with Depakote and I don't want to go through that again. This is just my experience with the medicine... I know some people loose weight on it. | F | 24 | 9 months | 12/19/2008 | 3 | bipolar 2 | brain fog (esp. with each increase in dosage), decreased coordination/balance, hair loss, blurred vision, NEED to eat otherwise i get sick, feelings of withdrawl if i wait too long (1-2 hours) to take it, insomnia | it has definitely stabilized my mood which now has helped me notice that i have a lot of anxiety (which i never noticed because it was hard for me to differentiate between hypomania and anxiety). so now i realize that i need something to help my anxiety and irritability and don't really want to increase the lamictal. my side-effects become more noticeable with each increase. i felt i could deal with the side effects (esp. the brain fog) because i'm a stay-at-home mom. every once in a while it makes it really difficult to drive and is kind of scary. for some reason the brain fog has been especially bad the past few days and i can't seem to shake it. in regards to the insomnia, i take my lamictal in the morning and i take trazodone at night to help me sleep which is 100% necessary. the other day my husband noticed that my hair was thinning (an upclose evaluation) which would make sense seeing as how small clumps of hair would fall out with each shower. this has seemed to tape | F | 30 | 1 years | 12/19/2008 | 3 | Bipolar/Mood Stabilizer | This medication made me feel like a zombie practically everday,blurred vission,day dreamed minutes at a time I had to snap myself out of them becuase it would mostly happen when I was around people,painul migranes,contipation,less driven,very weak and tired,loss of short term memory,slurred words sometimes not being able to finish a sentence. Overall I did not feel normal,let alone alive! | Lamictal seemed to work the first couple of weeks, I felt more friendly,I began to talk more. Although,after months of taking it my moods became worse, I became lazy and I was not able to work out like I am use to. The worst thing about this medicine is that you really do feel like a zombie just roaming around not really able to face reality. Another bad thing was the slurred speech and not being able to describe or express things very well, and that was embarassing!! If you are taking this medicine write down how you feel everyday, and how you felt before you were on the medication so you can keep a record of the positive/negative effects it may be having. That was my mistake, I probably would have been off of it by now! Good luck | F | 23 | 5 months | 12/19/2008 | 3 | Bipolar | Hairloss. If you are conscious about your hair, then I would not recommend it. Noticed hair thinning significantly. 100mg | M | 26 | 5 years | 11/19/2008 | 3 | Border personality/mood stabilizer | Flush face, short term memory loss, some problems with tremors and word recollection, dry-mouth and headaches | I've been on and off this medication for several years now. What has been happening is that the memory loss is too much to handle along with higher education. Short term memory improved significantly after stopping this medication. Now that I have graduated, I'm trying it again. So far dry mouth in the morning, headache and memory loss. | F | 28 | 30 days | 11/19/2008 | 3 | seizure | I had my first(and only so far) tonic clonic seizure in June - started w/ Keppra & Dilantin. Dilantin made me so dizzy, I walked like I was tipsy. So, switched to Lamictal (now taking 100mgs/day) about 2 months ago. Mostly I feel well other than dry mouth and recently extreme nausea - feels like the first trimester of pregnancy (but @ 56 I now that is not the case). | Overall I feel better with the Lamictal than I did w/ other medications. After reading some of the other blogs here, my problems seem insignificant. One of my major issues is to think that I have to be on this drug for the rest of my life because of ONE seizure. But I am afraid to stop. I would not want to have a seizure while driving, and thank God I didn't the first time. But having to stop driving for 6 months has made such a total change in my lifestyle. Just to be able to get back to that is enough to make me continue w/ this med. | F | 56 | 2 months | 11/17/2008 | 3 | JME (Juvnile Myoclonic Epilepsy) | I find that lamicatal was a little more worse than depakote. On depakote I had no problems with mood or anything like that and my periods weren't too bad, I could control the cramps with just one advil. Also I didn't have lightheaded spells like I do sometimes and my mood has been a great concern lately as I no longer feel like I used to. My PMS mood swings have gotten worse. I also started to lose my hair well it falls out easier than it used to. | It's okay. I mean not for everyone but I do think that I had better reactions with depakote. I didn't mind getting my blood checked every so often as to these mood swings and light headed spells. | F | 18 | 1 years | 11/13/2008 | 3 | bipolar depression | no side effects to date, I am losing my hair but I'm also on 900mg lithium, 150mg seroquel, and 4mg klonopin. | I started on 25mg for 2 weeks. I'm now almost finished with the 2 weeks on 50mg and ready to go up to 100mg. The only problem is that it has kind of helped my depression a little bit (I can't take anti-depressants) but I've been having thoughts of suicide and some are very strong. I had thoughts on 25mg and I pushed through to 50mg anyway I'm just scared what would happen on 100mg. This drug is like the last resort to help my depression. It;s been 5 years of misery. I noticed a lot have received relief on 200mg. I hope that works for me. | F | 35 | 25 days | 11/12/2008 | 3 | Seizures | Acne, insomnia, vivid dreams, INCREASED sex drive | All in all a good medication. I have not had any serious side effects- acne is the most irritating. | F | 29 | 1.5 years | 11/12/2008 | 3 | epilepsy | Hair loss, vivid dreams | Not too many side effects so far. It has been an ok drug. The main one I am concerned with is hair loss which seems to be getting worse. I also have more dreams, and vivid ones. | M | 25 | 2 months | 11/10/2008 | 3 | Bipolar II | shortness of breath; headaches; acne on face, neck and back; insomnia | F | 27 | 3 months | 11/4/2008 | 3 | Bipolar Disorder II | hallucinations, tremors, hostility, random twitches, a need to KEEP MOVING, indescribable feeling of being "not right", feeling faint, CONFUSION, MEMORY LOSS, racing thoughts, tinnitus, sensetivity to sunlight | When I started taking Lamictal by itself I started having hallucinations. They told me that it was the Bipolar Disorder, but I never had them before I took Lamictal, and they went away after adding other medications. When the Dr. increased my dosage recently, I noticed a big increase in irritability. I also was completely unable to sit still, which made sleeping next to impossible. | F | 19 | 5 years | 10/30/2008 | 3 | Bi-Polar II | I cannot remember anything short term. My scalp itches. I have no balance and can trip and fall over air. I seem to be more manic and get the shakes on the inside when I drink caffeine. And I can't see worth anything. My vision is so blurry that I have to really focus, which is a problem because I can't focus!! AAARRRGGGHHH! | Until I found this web-site I was going to be tested for early on-set Alzheimers Disease. I thought I was going crazy. My forgetfullness is going to cost me my job if I can't begin remerbering to do things my boss asked me to do. I can't put a sentence together. I used to be the intelligent "go-to" person and now I'm just a dumb stuttering person that can't remember a conversation we had yesterday. I am going back to my doctor to see what can be done, but until then I'm backing down from 300 mg to 200 mg myself. I had my hairdresser check me for lice because my head itched so badly. I have to do something to make this better. | F | 39 | 2 years | 10/30/2008 | 3 | Bi polar disorder | I've lost Alot of weight. I went from 115-125 to 100 lbs. When I first started taking the drug I couldn't remember anything I was really lost and got Extremly Sleepy durning the day. When I started taking it at night I would sleep 15 hours a day. I started at 25mg i'm up to almost 100mgs. I don't eat a whole lot since I've been on the drug I mis use words alot and Have the attention span Of a fly. I don't show emotion to much and I'm extremly blank. When I lose my temper I stay angry. | It's a good drug but I wouldn't recommned it to someone as a first time drug to get rid of sym. Now that I've been on it for a couple of weeks I have to take OTC sleep drugs to pass out I sit alone alot loud noise gets to me. I'm extemly panic strecken. I've lost ALOT of weight. The racey thoughts in my head have stopped and compaired to how I normally am it's better. I've been on almost every drug for depression and mania. This one by far has the least side effects | F | 20 | 4 weeks | 10/29/2008 | 3 | bipolar II | Horrible memory loss- i can't seem to find the "right" words and completely forget things like what time my child has soccer practice, or why i went to the store? bad hair loss as well. | the drug definitely made my moods a lot better, but in my job, i cannot afford to have memory loss. unfortunately, i need to come off and try something else. | F | 38 | 1 years | 10/24/2008 | 3 | Bipolar | I have been on this drug for 4 years, with various dose levels. Have recently increased from 200 mgs to 300mgs. I feel like I am burning up from the inside out. My skin is not hot but under surface I feel like I'm going to spontaneously human combust! Also have a kind of rash - almost like mosquito bites that itch and appear all over - is this the kind of rash people talk about? | I'd like feedback from anyone about the symptoms I've described, as this is the only drug from my 'cocktail' that has been increased and I am wondering if this is causing the itch and heat. | F | 49 | 4 years | 9/24/2008 |