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 |
| 5 | Bipolar 1, Rapid cycling | Hair Loss | I love lamictal. It keeps my bipolar disorder stablized. | F | 21 | 3 years 100 MG 1X day | 1/3/2012 | 5 | Epilepsy | I haven't had a seizure since I was 10. It works miracles with epilepsy!!! | F | 16 | 6 years 200 MG | 12/26/2011 | 5 | Bipolar II | I had bad anxiety for the first day. After the first day I have not had any side effects at all. I don't feel "drugged", either. This is good stuff. If I don't get the rash that is associated with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, then I will take this until the day I die. | This medicine (Lamotrigine - generic for Lamictal) has helped with the irrational anxiety, depression and anger. I am on 25MG per day. I take it in the morning with food. I think that I will only need 50MG of this each day. I don't plan on increasing the dosage above 50MG per day unless I need to. | M | 29 | 9 days 25 MG 1X day | 12/20/2011 Patient History | 5 | mood stabalizer | I had no side effects up to 150mg and it worked very well for me at 200mg I started having insomnia and am considering going back to 150mg. It is a great drug and has helped a huge amount. Not sure if I am alone in this 150 vs 200mg side effects as some take higher doses and seem fine | M | 35 | 2 months 200 | 12/20/2011 | 5 | Bipolar I | None very noticable. MAYBE a slight decrease in mid-term and long-term memory. | Lamictal worked wonders for obsessive tendencies. I used to get stuck on things that made me sad or angry and not let them go; now I can let things roll right off me. | M | 22 | 2 years 150mg 1X day | 12/12/2011 | 5 | Epilepsey | Lamictal has greatly changed my life. I remember dreams and am very alert. I sleep about 6 hours a night and have a clear mind in the morning. My personality is now very level no ups and doens. I have taken many other medicaitons for epilepsey and this is the best. | I have been taking medication for epilepsy for 48 years and this is the best drug for controlling my petit mal and grand mal seizures - it has the least side effects of any drug I have taken in the past. | F | 61 | 5 years 450 mg/day 2X day | 12/3/2011 | 5 | epilepsy | dry mouth for a couple of weeks this passed | best thing to happen to me. Haven`t had major or minor fit since being on them. All other medication has left me feeling as if i am dopey and always a step behind the rest of the world now I am back to speed reading and drive | F | 47 | 11 years 100mg 2X day | 11/23/2011 | 5 | mood stabilzer and seizure disorder | dry mouth and at first really tired they added celexa 40 mg and im doin better | F | 29 | 40 days 100 mg 1X day | 11/17/2011 | 5 | Rapid Cycling Bipolar Disorder | This is the best drug I have used for 30 years. I feel normal. However, in the last 5 days, without any changes, I feel that it is just stopped working. I am having panic++ and am extremely depressed and just a little frantic. My dr. is unavailble until next week. I have no side effects at all, which is a miracle in itself. | F | 59 | 2.5 months 150mgs 1X day | 11/13/2011 | 5 | Anxiety, migraines | mild insomnia | Wow, is all I can say. This medication has changed my life. I have only been on 50 mg for three weeks now, but I have more energy, less headaches (no migraines so far), almost no anxiety or depression and feel, dare I say, "normal". I haven't felt this good in 10 years. I hope I don't get any other side effects other than the mild insomnia, and am hoping that that goes away as well. I just started taking it in the am instead of pm to see if that helps the insomnia. So far so good, hope it helps many more. | F | 45 | 4 weeks 50 mg 1X day | 9/22/2011 | 5 | depression, PTSD/obsessing, anxiety | mild to moderate insomnia | was suffering from treatment-resistant depression, horrible anxiety/obsessive ruminating, and PTSD. added 50mg lamotrigine to 150mg doxepin and noticed positive results almost immediately. seems to have prominent anti-kindling properties. | M | 51 | 3 weeks 50mg 1X day | 9/19/2011 | 5 | Bipolar Disorder-extreme depression | No side effects. | It changed my life, I never thought a day would pass where I wasn't actively suicidal--with Lamictal the suicidal thoughts ended after almost a decade of pain. I will take it until I die. | F | 29 | 8 years 200mg 1X day | 9/15/2011 | 5 | Bipolar 1 | Small bumps on hands when we increased the dosage. | This drug has saved my life. Seriously. I had severe manic episodes and two suicide attempts. We tried anti-psychs with bad results. Abilify caused seizures; Geodon nearly gave me a heart attack. You start at a low dose and bump it up at various increments. The dosage pack makes it easy. Now that I'm taking the max dosage for bipolar disorder, my moods are *much* more stable. I still have episodes of mania and depression, but that's the nature of the disorder. If not for Lamictal, those episodes would likely be much more serious. I recommend trying this drug to anyone who is having trouble with side effects from anti-psychs. As with any drug, there is a chance of very serious side effects. It really is trial and error sometimes. Best of luck to all of you who are dealing with these crappy psych illnesses. We'll make it through! :-) | F | 30 | 5 years 200 mg 2X day | 9/13/2011 | 5 | BiPolar 2 rapid cycling | Muscle aches, Constipation and inability to fall asleep 2-3 times a week. | Still titrating and taking it very slowly, but feel a lot better already. Effects occur in the first week after titrating and start to ease in second week but don't go away completely. Moving from 25mg to 50mg has been a real problem and I might stay there for a few weeks until my body adjusts. Problems are bad enough to make me stop taking the drug if the problems persist | M | 64 | 6 weeks 50mg 1X day | 9/6/2011 | 5 | Bipolar Nos Depression Anxiety | Not much. I think it makes me dizzy though. With the amount of drugs I take though its pretty amazing that I can stand upright. :) | Very powerful and effective antideppresant effect and some mood stabilizing pproperties. Mainly improved my mood by a good couple percentiles. | M | 26 | 2 years 200mg 1X day | 8/25/2011 | 5 | Mood Stabilizer | Hair loss and memory loss! I had beautiful thick hair four years ago and now it has gotten thin and brittle. The issue has cued my doctor to take me off of the medication. | If it were not for the hair loss i probably would not ever want to go off of it and/or change it because it worked so well for me and had so few side effects! It worked wonders for me! I wish I did not have to go off of it but I'd like to have some hair on my head. | F | 21 | 4 years 300 1X day | 8/4/2011 | 5 | Bi-polar | Memory Loss | I owe so much to this medication. I love it. Other than an annoying issue w/memory loss I have had no problems. | F | 37 | 2 years 200 1X day | 7/23/2011 | 5 | Bipolar 1 | None | Stabilised my mood at the lower end to an acceptable level. Made a huge improvement to my life. | M | 41 | 1 years 100 1X day | 7/21/2011 | 5 | Mood | Normal functioning improved every area of life-family, work, feelings, too many to list. | Reborn with this medication, truly so! | M | 46 | 3 years 500 1X day | 7/18/2011 | 5 | BiPolar | Sometimes I get minor hives on my back and shoulders. Sometimes my eye twitches (but that could be tired eyes from computer screen). Reduced vision. Some memory problems, like searching for the correct words to use. | For me the perfect mixture is 200mg Lamictal, 10mg Ambien, 10 mg Amitriptyline, 4 mg Perhenazine. Taken all before bedtime. Zero Morning Carryover, I wake up crisp and ready for work. Doesn't cause pain, no dry mouth, no bad breath, no gas.. I get a very good sleep and stay even all day. No more Mania, no more depression. | M | 43 | 4 years 200 MG 1X day | 7/8/2011 |