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 |
| 4 | Epilepsy Grand mal | The side effects of the first 4-even 6 months were tough: Insomnia, sleepiness only during the day, headaches, weakness, moodiness | Was worth waiting out. Side effects have disappeared. But I was told that it is an Add-on med. so I am STRUGGLING with Depakote and they definitely interact. I recommend Lamictal | F | 37 | 8 years | 12/29/2005 | 4 | rapid-cycling bipolar I disorder | The only side effects that I've had due to Lamictal alone are fatigue and also nausea. | Interestingly enough, I took this for years for epilepsy, and it didn't work well at all. After coming off it though (post-surgery) I discovered to my dismay previously controlled bipolar I disorder. I'm back taking 400 mg a day, and though I still get the slightest depressive and manic symptoms, it's very well controlled. I mean I didn't even know that I had bipolar for years until I quit taking it, and now it's obvious to me when I'm manic and when I'm depressed and when it's mxied, but I can live with those slight symptoms where I couldn't before. | F | 25 | 8 years | 1/9/2006 | 3 | Bipolar II | Weight Gain on the Generic | I have posted here on this website before about Dr Reddy's Lab. It took me a while to realize that after switching from brand name Lamictal to the manufacturer Dr Reddy's lab that I gained weight. I thought the gain was unrelated until I lost a few pounds after cutting back my dosage and going back to the brand name. After doing a google search, there are a couple other people who also gained about 10 lbs with that company. It's odd that everyone gained the same amount. | F | 35 | 8 years 200 MG 1X day | 1/10/2012 | 3 | Epilepsy | Memory loss - short term extending into long term. Reading, learning, vocabulary, calculations and describing/eplaining things to people. The problem is that i don't know if it is epilepsy or the drug or brain tumor. I hate not knowing. | It does the job but it has such a short half-life. if i go 12 - 18 hours without, partial it is. Any longer and my brain is a bomb ready to go off/I'm waiting for a full scale unconciousness so i try to have them scattered in as many places as posible. It does the job. | M | 27 | 8 years | 2/14/2007 | 3 | Epilepsy | Problems with memory loss - short term extending into long term. Reading, learning, vocabulary, calculations and describing/eplaining things to people. The problem is that i don't know if it is epilepsy or the drug or brain tumor. I hate not knowing. | It does the job but it has such a short half-life. if i go 12 - 18 hours without, partial it is. Any longer and my brain is a bomb ready to go off/I'm waiting for a full scale unconciousness so i try to have them scattered in as many places as posible. It does the job. | M | 27 | 8 years | 2/14/2007 | 3 | Seizures | Doctor had me on 200 mg a day because that's what the PDR said to do. It was way too much. I started having problems with language. All of a sudden I couldn't spell and I would sometimes use the wrong word for objects. | I asked my doctor if I could try a lower dose and he said no. This despite the fact that I stopped having seizures once I took the lowest dose that they start you out with when first taking the drug. I live in a State that gives doctor's the ability to yank your driver's license if they think you are a seizure risk. So I started titrating down on my own and didn't tell him. I was extremely cautious, going from 200 to 150 for at least 3 months, then 150 to 100, 100 to 50, then 50 to 25. (I did this by separating the 100 mg pill in 1/2, then 1/2 again). At 25 mg I had a slight "aura" so I went back up to 50 mg. 50 mg seemed to be the correct dose for me. My side effects were greatly reduced and I haven't had a seizures in years. I hate it when doctor's won't listen to their patients. | F | 45 | 8 years 50 1X day | 11/7/2019 | 2 | depression | severe memory loss, confusion, hard time concentrating, night sweats, my head feels hot from the inside at times, ringing in ears.. i have had the memory problems for about 6 years but is much worse now, I would love to talk to someone with these symptoms.. it is bad | F | 57 | 8 years 150 1X day | 9/2/2020 | 2 | Epilepsy | Tiredness, memory loss, depression, lack of enthusiasm for anything, insomnia, twitching, and jerks, zoning out, increased fits | At first I was very happy with Lamictal, and did not have a grand mals for 3 years, and even got my driving license, but then I started to have them again, and my neurologist kept increasing my dose of lamictal, which gradually made me feel worse, and now Im on 150mg twice a day, but it still isn't stopping the fits, in fact they are gradually becoming more frequent, and the side effects are driving me mad. Im going to talk to my neurologist about coming off of it. | M | 28 | 8 years | 6/2/2009 | 1 | mood disorder | horrible nausea and heinous withdrawal effects | M | 43 | 8 years | 9/8/2008 | 1 | mood stabilizer | horrible nausea that never went away---I was on it for years | I've been withdrawing from Lamictal and it causes severe fatigue...I can barely get out of bed. | M | 43 | 8 years | 7/7/2008 | 1 | seizures | memory loss, intrusive thoughts. I keep going over and over bad experiences including the car accident (50 years ago) that gave me severe head injuries causing these seizures. My 1st doctor had no empathy. Wouldn't take me off!! I have a new physician and hope she will prescribe a new drug. Lamictal takes care of my seizures but not worth the side effects | I also have depression and loss of co-ordination. | F | 67 | 8 years 400mg 2X day | 10/19/2020 | 5 | Seizures | This is the same girl with [email protected]. I forgot a few things. Except the rash, I've experianced about 96% of all the non-emergancy side effects, but I don't really mind anymore | I've had 2 beautiful, healthy girls on Lamictal (600mg daily), the only thing was they'd break into a rash if I breast fed them, but the rash would fade, but I must warn you, between pregnancies, I did have a miscarriage (6 weeks). My neurologist said it very could well have been the Lamictal, But My girls are physically healthy... but I've found my 3 year old is getting evident that she has a speech problem ,but I did too till I was 9. We'll have too see... | F | 24 | 7.5 years | 6/12/2006 | 5 | bipolar | nausea and dizziness if I miss only 1 dose. If I miss 2 doses I can barely stand | no side effects if i don't miss any doses | F | 61 | 7 years 150mg 2X day | 1/12/2012 | 5 | Seizures | With every does raise, I suffer headaches, achiness, nervousness and alot of dizziness. Throughout treatment I get "the shakes". I'm very foggy-headed- my short-term memory is bad... But all of it worth it. I'm taking 600mg a day. | I owe alot to this drug. I started taking ot Sept of 1999 and haven't had a full-convulsant seizure since! I still have partals, but they aren't scarey and are fading, like alot of other things associated with my epilepsy. I think a few more years of taking this, everything will be gone. I started having seizures Dec 1997. I owe my life to this drug and I hope that others experiance the same. I'm sorry if people have had bad experiances with it, but since I took it, I've gotten my life back. it will be 8 years this July since I've had a full seizure! | F | 24 | 7 years | 6/12/2006 | 5 | Epilepsy | Headache, rash in the neck area, night sweating, absent feeling at times, sometimes waking up many times after falling asleep, difficulties with learning and concentration, muscle weakness & numbness, tiredness. | In overall a great and effective drug compared to previous "old school" drugs. Side effects are a bit annoying but I don't know if lamictal or valproate causes them. Daily dosage: Lamictal 200 mg + Valproate 800 mg. | M | 35 | 7 years | 1/19/2006 | 5 | Bipolar II | Nothing major | I was really ill - 3 hospital admissions in total and loads of day care. Lamotrigine really turned things around. I was more depressed than manic and it was definitely good for the depressive symptoms. NOTHING else worked as well. I am now off Lamotrigine as trying for a baby and have managed to remain stable, but would go on it again if symptoms worsened. | F | 32 | 7 years 400mg 1X day | 5/3/2010 | 5 | Seizures | Uncoordinated, sleepiness, dizziness & headaches. Mostly uncoordinated & my short term memory is horrible. | My seizures/stiffness were only at night. I took a few other anti-seizure medicines in 1997-2002 that never cured my seizures. Ever since I've been on 150mg a day on lamictal I have had none. I only had 4 seizures in my life (starting 1997) from a brain contusion in 1990. Lamictal does help, my side affects are dizziness, short term memory problem (But I think everyone has that-lol) sleepiness and hair loss. I notice if I get too tired and stressed my dizziness gets worse. My Dr. decided last month he doesn't trust generic drug makers anymore and put me on the name brand 200 mg a day. Well, for that whole week I swear, I was dizziness everyday. So bad, I would cry before I went to bed. It was like I was spinning all day. And, I rolled my eyes in back of my head everyday. I thought it was from the dizziness. Then on the 7th day on the 200 mg I looked online searching what the rolling of the eyes mean. I was having an absence seizure all the time. Called the after hour Dr. and he put me back on the generic 150 mg a day (75mg a.m. & 75mg p.m.) So, the drug works from eliminating my seizures, but I need a smaller dose. Remember, everyone is different on side effects. | F | 34 | 7 years 150mg 1X day | 2/9/2010 | 5 | Bipolar 2 | Very slight tremor (but all anti seizure meds do that), short term memory loss, word retrieval is sometimes very difficult. | Other mood stabilizers weren't working for me. Lamictal has changed/saved my life! In conjunction with a couple small dose antidepressants I finally 'feel normal'. Now my family and I only have unpleasant memories of the 'old me'. | F | 36 | 7 years 200 2X day | 10/27/2010 | 5 | Mood swings | No negative side effects which I can attribute to this medication. | Lamictal works very well for me. I feel more controlled with pretty steady and good mood. No major ups and downs. | M | 71 | 7 years 150 1X day | 3/27/2018 | 5 | bipolar II | I've been on it for so long (7ish years?) I can't remember the side effects. They must not have been too horrific. | I LOVE this med. It has kept my mania pretty darn stable. Recently added a bit of Topamax to it for weight loss, but have no plans to get off the Lamictal. The generic is now available by Teva (I know, I know--they're not the most loved generic pharma), but I've noticed nothing different in my moods after taking the generic for at least 6-7 weeks now (neither has anyone else). Lamictal (brand name) is the one med that I've taken consistently and with only minor dose tweaking since I was dx'd with BPII in 2001. I did, however, find out that 400mg is too much for me, and almost immediately I experienced burning, swelling, and itchy palms. Doc lowered it right away to 300mg. | F | 40 | 7 years | 3/2/2009 |