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 | BPD 2- Rapid Cycling | Anxiety after 125mg. | I had extreme anxiety before taking Lamictal and started experiencing "unreasonable anxiety", jumpiness, a sense of something bad happening,freaky nightmares, sleeping problems, and hypertension. I will be adding .5mg of Lexapro tomorrow for anxiety- hope it works! | F | 29 | 5 days | 10/5/2006 | 5 | Bipolar Disorder | Some anxiety, racing heart, thirstiness, loss of appetite. | So far, I really like it. The loss of moodiness waaaay outweigh the side effects, although they are acute (especially the loss of appetite, perhaps due to a slight nausea). I get a kind of constricted feeling in my chest as well, which is kind of scary (does anyone else get this? it might just be self-induced anxiety...). And I was wondering whether most people took lamictal at night or in the morning? I've been taking mine in the AM for fear of sleeplessness....let me know anything about the drug you'd like to share!! [email protected] | F | 20 | 5 days | 7/3/2006 | 4 | depression, anxiety lack of energy | none. made me feel more energetic. I am also on zoloft 50 mg. | F | 48 | 5 days | 12/7/2007 | 4 | Seizures | Blisters in mouth, swollen tongue, yellow eyes. | I love Lamictal for it's giving me good mood and somewhat control the seizures. However, I had such terrible side-effects in the first week that my doctor took me off the drug :( I think it's a great drug, just not the right one for me. Sad... | F | 37 | 5 days 25mg 1X day | 7/31/2012 | 4 | Bipolar/Depression | I have had chest pains (someone else mentioned that) which scared me at first, then I thought heartburn...but it hasn't gone a way after 5 wks. I have also noticed hot flashes and my contact lenses give me problems now. Just today I woke up w/feelings of bruises, but nothing visible | Working ok so far...still pretty depressed, but I finally stopped sobbing for no reason daily. This is my first time off of antidepressants since I was 14, so a little scary. I seem to have more ups and downs, but attribute it to the meds adjusting. Started 1st 4 weeks working up to 50mg, now going up to 200 in next 2 weeks. Here's to hoping! | F | 28 | 5 days | 11/20/2006 | 4 | Bipolar/anxiety | very slow waking up in the morning, but then I'm fully charged after first cup of coffee, very vivid dreams, odd feeling in one ear (kind of like swimmers ear as someone else described) | I've been on several meds for depression/GAD, once wellbutrin XL went to a generic form, it no longer worked for me. New Dr. diagnosed me with Bipolar and recommended I try this. Not sure yet if it's working. I have more energy in some areas, and not so much in others. I'll post another rating after being on it for some time. | F | 40 | 5 days | 5/8/2009 | 3 | Bipolar I | I have only been on it for 5 days but I am experiencing: muscle and bone aches and pains, easy to bruise, irritability, aggression, mania, a feeling like I have taken ecstasy, swimming headiness, anxiety attacks that didnt exsist before, fatigue | Im still trying to decide if I should discuss side affects with the doc. I havent been on the starter pack long, but am afraid of getting more side effects. | F | 26 | 5 days | 11/9/2007 | 3 | seizures | I have had many side effects, sleep disturbance, poor apptetite, then increased appetite, very poor memory and cognitive problems. But lately I am having symptoms of tardive dyskinesia. My doctor said that lamictal will not cause this condition. I disagree. I also went through a bit of withdrawal when I ran out of medication for three days. I had the anxiety, skin crawling, and feling like I was going to die. He didnt beleive that this could happen either. I am on 600 mg. a day for seizures. | It is controlling my siezures where no other drug was able to. | F | 5 days | 5/10/2005 | 3 | Depression, Post Traumatic Stress | Ive been on this for 5 days. Only thing I feel right now is not much different than I felt before starting. Im a little fatigued, and Ive noticed Im happy one day and down the next. I read these comments, dropped my head and started to cry. After so many years of up and down Depression, new psychiatrist suggested a lower level of BP..not one or two. I had side effects people mentioned BEFORE going on Lamictal! as in.BAD DREAMS,insomnia,weight gain. Im VERY CONCERNED about the acne situation and weight gain!!!!! I am so vain I would freak out! Zoloft worked for 2 years and I went from a size 2 to a 12 and as soon I stopped it, I dropped back down! I wish at this point, a doctor could open my head up and take out whats so f^@$ed up! | Lamictal, please work for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | F | 37 | 5 days | 4/19/2007 | 3 | BiPolar II | Severe headaches. | It works and I would love to stay on it but the headaches are so bad I can hardly open my eyes. | F | 41 | 5 days | 4/10/2007 | 3 | Bipolar Disorder NOS | nausea and loss of appetite. | since i've just now started lamictal and i'm already feeling less hungry, i'm hoping this will lead to weight loss. this is my first mood stabilizer [i was just diagnosed, finally] after 3 years of 5 antidepressants and 2 mis-prescribed ADHD drugs [all made me manic], so i am hopeful, despite the negative tone of many of these reviews. i've had most of these "side effects" [the "fog," confusion while typing or talikg, sleep disturbances, anxiety, etc.] "normally" for years. i also take celexa [5 months for panic attacks] and trazodone [4 months, insomnia]; anyone else mixed those with lamictal? | F | 22 | 5 days | 7/9/2007 | 3 | Mood stabilizer | On 100 mg. I had bad blurred vision, especially in one eye. Also had double vision and could not focus on anything. Had hair loss, too and very dry mouth at night. | On the good side I had wonderful sleep and lots of dreams but not bad dreams. My mood was better and I could deal with my problems. I would have stayed on the medicine but I couldn't see, could hardly even watch television. There was no way I could read a street sign so I didn't venture too far while driving. Would try this medicine again but no more than 50 mg per day. | F | 67 | 5 days | 10/14/2007 | 3 | Bi-Polar !! | Lack of sleep (4 hrs. a night); loss of words; short term memory loss; loss of balance; sometimes blurred vision; tremors; not much appetite; still some excitability; lost weight; losing hair (mildly); put my libido in a normal range; and heart palpitations! | Even with all those side effects I will continue taking Lamictal. Without it I was unbearable to myself and others. Had to continually apoligize for my bizarre actions. Libido was out of control, and crying all the time. My highs were wonderful and I denied I had any problems whatsoever which created many unpleasant disageements with others. At my age none of the other meds worked anymore, so I'm thankful for the little help and relief Lamictal gives me. It hasn't stopped my creativity, as a matter of fact has enhanced it. I've been bi-polar most of my life. | F | 76 | 5 days | 4/22/2007 | 2 | epilepsy | Insomnia but when I do get to sleep, I keep waking up.... anxiety, weepy, headaches, diarrhea, severe body aches, increased appetite. | In fairness, I have only been on Lamictal for about five days. I was put on this in place of Vimpat as I was on that for about two months and became angry, aggressive and suicidal. I was off of the Vimpat for two days before starting this. I felt great for one day...and then started on this one and started to feel like crap within hours. My very first night, could not sleep for the first time in years and it has been this way since. Headaches and body aches started within about 48 hours and anxiety and weepy within the past two days. My doctor has me at a slow titration and this current dose is just a quarter of what my full dose will be. I am not happy at all and very frustrated with doing test drives on meds to get the seizures under control. | F | 45 | 5 days 50 mg 1X day | 6/30/2013 | 2 | partial seizures | horrible, itchy rash on my arms | doc told me to call if i experienced any type of rash, which could be serious. i don't think i took it for long enough to know if it controlled my partial seizures. | F | 47 | 5 days 50 mg 2X day | 8/26/2012 | 2 | depression-anxiety | over all itchy feeling-especially head, heat flashes, over all gross feeling, muscle aches | I have also been diagnosed by one professional with bi-polar and then another has said not so sure of that...anyway, have only taken five pills (5 nights) also take ambien cr (12.5) mg for sleep.....had the night food cravings under control (which the ambien brings on)...but with this new med (lamictal) just can not control them and have started eating late at night/early morning again.......one of the worst things is I wake up in the middle of the night with the worst case of acid indigestion...and have to take quite a few tums/rolaids to get rid of this and takes an hour or two to get back to sleep.....not the med for me.......many years ago I used a wonderful suppliment called "levity" and am going to go back on this and see what happens......no side affects and it did help quite a bit... | F | 47 | 5 days | 5/26/2008 | 1 | Bipolar | I have only been on it five days but I don't feel like myself. I feel like I am in a cloud, I am afraid to drive, I am itchy, I still have racing thoughts but I am so tired I can't do anything, I have been sleeping for 12-15 hours and still want to sleep, and my anxiety has hiked up. I just got back from wal-mart and thought that everyone was staring at me. It made me so freaked. My OCD has also been in high gear. | I am hoping to get off this next time I go see my doctor. | F | 21 | 5 days | 7/16/2008 | 1 | partial complex seizures | Increased seizures; memory/cognitive problems; drowsiness; trouble "finding" words; blood sugar problems; interacted with birth control, the bc inhibited the metabolism of the Lamictal, so my doctor increased my dose, but when I stopped the bc, my blood sugar went crazy; other lesser side effects, minor night sweats at beginning of treatment, having to use the bathroom more frequently. | The biggest problem that I had with this drug was that it exacerbated my seizures. I was originally on Depakote, which completely controlled my seizures, but I did not like the "druggy" feeling it gave me (drowsiness, cognitive difficulties), so my doctor put me on Carbotrol. This slowly increased my seizures until I was experiencing 3-4 weekly, so my doctor switched me to Lamictal, which has made things even worse: I'm lucky if I go for two days seizure-free; mostly, I have one or two in a day, sometimes three or four, but on the worst days, 5 or 6. Now, I've asked to be put back on the Depakote (esp. since the Lamictal comes with the same side effects but worsens my seizures). | F | 23 | 5 days | 5/8/2006 | 1 | Bipolar II | Burning, sunburn like feeling after 4 days of use; rash started but did not get bad since I stopped the medication | Just as the bad side effect kicked in, I started noticing a | F | 35 | 5 days | 3/31/2005 | 5 | depression and mild bypolar 2no | none | one day after taking it i felt much better it was ammazing | F | 63 | 4 days | 3/30/2005 |