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 |
| 3 | Cyclothymic Bi-polar | I have this | F | 40 | 10 days | 5/20/2005 | 3 | Bipolar II/Cyclothymia | Severe anger, irratibility. Very vivid dreams.. felt like I was hallucinating. Foggy, Itchy. | My racing thoughts have completly stopped! Also, my moods are not so up and down as they used to be. (Depressed then very happy several times in 24 hours) Anxiety calmed a little. My anger and vivid dreams are so extreme though that I have thought about getting of medication. | F | 19 | 10 days 25 MG 1X day | 1/16/2012 | 2 | depression, post traumatic stress | I am on day 10 of this medication. I was so incredibly tired the first week,and after reading some comments on this board, I started taking it at night. WHich helped with that a little bit. Today I awoke with an odd headache, and I am headache sufferer anyways, and nausea. Upon reading these comments and how I feel today..screw it.,,Im not taking it..I already feel too many things wrong here. Good luck everyone else. But getting excessive weight, acne,headaches, memory loss..not worth it. I would rather be in a bad mood. Ive now resolved myself to the idea that there is no cure from a magic little pill that doesnt come with some baggage, and I need to look within myself for the help I need. | F | 37 | 10 days | 4/22/2007 | 1 | Depression | I had a Stevens-Johnson reaction to this medication that involved my liver, spleen, and my whole body in general. My skin peeled off from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. it was horrible. If you are allergic to any medication, do not take this drug. It was horrible and happened very quickly. The doctors in my local hospital failed to diagnose me and it almost cost me my life. Avoid this drug if you have EVER had any adverse reactions. | F | 44 | 10 days 10 mg 1X day | 4/2/2011 | 1 | Bipolar depression | Face really broke out never sleep gained weight this drug sucks don't try it. | F | 37 | 10 days 30 | 5/5/2015 | 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 | 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 | 1 | Depression & Anxiety | So dizzy all I want to do is sleep all the time and just the feeling of being drunk, I can't even walk a straight line.. | Would NOT recommend taking this,Worst Phyc medication I have ever | F | 40 | 10 days 25mg | 12/26/2015 | 1 | Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar II | Restlessness, Insomnia, Worsening Depression and Anxiety, Serious negative interactions with Cannabis use | M | 23 | 10 days 100 1X day | 4/2/2023 | 1 | epilepsy | I am actually taking tegretol retard and epilim chrono along with lamictal. i now have bad memory loss, slurred speech, loss of sexual desire compared to a few years ago, tiredness and very vivid intense dreams and also emotional but for no apparent reason which I find irritating and confusing. I HATE these side effects!!! | By the way, I was diagnosed epileptic at the age of 9. | F | 24 | 10 days | 4/19/2008 | 1 | for trigeminal neuralgia | fever of 104.6, huge swollen neck, swollen lymphs,high blood pressure, hospitalized for a week, thought i was going to die | dont use it | F | 40 | 10 days | 6/18/2008 | 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 | Grand Mal Seizures | memory loss, insomnia, hair loss (got a rash when I started taking it.) (My baby was born w/ one kidney...they do not know if it is due to Lamictal.) | Why am I giving it a 5? I have been on it for 9 years. I still have occasional seizures but I was seizure free for more than a year. Nothing seems to work for me. I was dignosed at 18..I have been on Tegretol,Depakote, Dilantin (Horrible) and now I am on Lamictal and zonegran. I am on 700mg (which is WAY above the max dose)of Lamictal (I weigh 130)and when I went through the ratings and no one is on nearly that much. The reason I decided to look up about some side effects that others were having was because of my memory loss. It has really got bad bad lately. So bad that my husband is saying you need to call the Dr. Then I started reading about the hair loss and insomnia. I didn't really think about Lamictal and that... Maybe I need to start looking into something else. But my body is very sensitive to skipping doses, not taking my morning med etc. If I miss a lunch dose I could have a seizure... It does work.... | F | 35 | 9 days | 1/3/2006 | 5 | Bipolar/2 Chronic depressions | At first I experienced some anxiety, insomnia, upset stomach- went away after about 5 days. Feel good- better than I have in many years- scared about the rash - after 2 weeks I go up to 50mg- think I will stop there. No side effects that I can tell- not hungry- but much better than being too hungry. | F | 38 | 9 days 25 mg | 6/5/2012 | 5 | seizures and mild tbi | manic, aggitated but I can think clearly now. some problems with lymph glands swelling and my tongue feeling fat with increased dosage at a fast rate so we had to increase the dosage at a very slow pace. | Since my head injury three and a half years ago, I was left with partial, tonic-clonic, absence, myoclonic and atonic seizures. I can not transfer short term memory into long term memory. And I could only handle one thing at a time without causeing a seizure. The lamictal has improved my thinking 90% but the side effect is my thoughts race and I can become very aggitated quickly. I sleeep four hours a day unless I take another medication to calm me down and help me to sleep. I have very few breakthrough seizures on the lamictal. They come from over doing it which is easy on the lamictal since the drugs makes me so hyper. I can process more information but I will still loose it if there is too much stimulation around me. Once we found out the lamictal was causeing me to have a personality change and I become aggitated so quickly (which can turn into a huge family fight). I can become very violent, irrational and refuse to take medication once I am too manic on the drug. We have set up a every 2-4 hour check in where I can talk to a family member or friend and calm down or vent. Trileptal has been helpful with the mania and so has the clonapin. I can also ride the bus without seizures and go into a store to shop now. Just be careful if the check out lines are too long. hehe. | F | 48 | 9 days | 5/20/2005 | 5 | bi-polar 2 or less | Have urgent diarrhea in AM. Now intestinal problem afternoon including gas.(Hope it's something elst) A little dizzy at first and sometimes sleepy. | On my 9th day at 25 mg. Cannot believe the difference!! No more racing thoughts. I can catch a negative thought before it fully forms and nix it. Happier, optomistic, much, much, more focused. Also have ADD. Ritalin may help with drowseyness. ALL SSRI's make me nuts! PZAC, WeLbutrin, Totally Manic. Lamictal is so far a life saver. | F | 47 | 9 days | 4/20/2005 | 5 | Bipolar 1/ADHA | None yet | I was very concerned about the possible side affects of this medication. I have only been on Lamictal (25mg) for 9 days but so far so good. It seems to be helping alot. | F | 35 | 9 days | 6/2/2006 | 4 | Bi Polar 2 | Taking 400 mg, sometimes I feel like I am drunk. Slight weight gain. I have not had hair loss, maybe it will come later. Spelling and typing are harder, I mix up letters and whatnot | M | 23 | 9 days | 4/23/2007 | 4 | depression | ive only been on this for 9 days. was taking depakote500MG 3 times a day till i noticed extreme weight gain for me. 25lbs in just a few months. im winging off of that slowly and my doc has me on this. i just started so i am starting off slowly. havnt noticed any side effects yet. so far so good. | F | 24 | 9 days | 6/8/2007 |