LAMICTAL CD Reviews (LAMOTRIGINE)Average Rating: 3.1 (135 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LAMICTAL CD with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LAMICTAL CD | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | bipolar | Both eyes feel like something is I'm them I wipe it put drops nothing it slowly happen its really weird my left eye is worst of it the side feels raw or something but I just taken that med today so I hope it gets better or idk | They need to figure out what's wrong a person without pills to make us Ginny pigs its stupid | M | 32 | 3 months 100 | 3/28/2015 | 1 | Mood Swings | This drug has made my asthma horrible. My rescue inhaler barely helps. This made my mood swings worse and my anxiety 10 times worse. I've also had a few panic attacks. I haven't had a panic attack in a year or so. It also causes me to have an extremely dry mouth. | F | 22 | 3 days 25 Mg 1X day | 10/28/2014 | 1 | BIPOLAR AND ADHD | This drug made me stare out of the window, non social, people kept telling me I was not myself and asking me what was wrong and I did not feel like myself. I was not thinking at all. There are alot of people who do not know I am adhd or bipolar, they just think I am a get her done type of person and am very social. Limictal with paxil made me a zombie, did not feel comfortable, my stomache always hurt- would try to make it feel better by eating,but that did not help. I forget all of my symptoms but I felt as if I were dying. I also have never had gory and mutilation dreams, being scared and trying to run away. I started having horrible seeming so real nightmares. I am thinking that I was misdiagnosed as bipolar and I am only adhd. Both run in my family and I did tell the dr. I went to that I don't believe I have strong bipolar symptoms. I know what a person acts like and the symptoms from speaking with 2 of my sisters that have bipolar. My sisters have said that they have those kind o | F | 30 | 3 years 30 MG 1X day | 5/26/2012 | 1 | Bi-Polar | Feelings of indifference, increased disasociation with reality, irrational thoughts sometimes stemming from "lucid dreams" that he is certain mean something. Sporatic and unpredictable aggresion accompanied by severe shaking. Disreguard for responsibilities. Warped sence of invincibility. Increased confusion and inability to cope with distractions. | I am writting this on behalf of my husband as a warning to other concerned spouses/children/partners/parents out there that are experiencing, second hand, the negative side effects that this drug may be having on their loved one. After my husband began taking Lamictal he started feeling "better" quickly. This led to sudden thoughts that he is in his right mind and should be focusing on him and his needs while his children and wife sit on the sidelines. He has now lost his wife and children and beleives that it is a good thing. He has left the house and is only paying for his room and board where he is staying and refuses to pay the bills he left with his wife and children. This is all very recent and who is to know if he will remain happy with these changes but he has very limited interaction with his children at this point and the effects on them have been huge. It does appear that he feels better but from what I see it is only better because he isn't reguarding any of the responsibilities that he has. Only time will tell how he responds when reality hits him but from what I have seen so far he will continue to withdrawl. He refuses to listen to my feedback about his treatment and has concocted a grand story in his mind that I am the root of his anger issues and with out me he will now be better. He has taken this to the extreme of simplifying our seperation saying that I just didn't want him to go hiking so I ended our seven year relationship and tore our children | F | 32 | 3 months 100 MG 1X day | 7/11/2011 | 1 | epilepsy | severe headaches all day/every day...insomnia..severe memory loss (started 2 fires in my kitchen!!! i can't do more than one thing at a time..walk in room & forget why i went there)..weight gain @ 2 lbs/week & i don't overeat | this med has reduced my number of seizures but the side effects are nasty, nasty...this is my 4th med...now doc wants me to start Topamax...boy am i scared!!!..i cannot get a return call from him about the problems i'm having....so off to the ER tomorrow!!! pathetic if you ask me | M | 47 | 2 months 200 1X day | 12/20/2010 | 1 | Anxiety BiPolar Depression | Bleedling gumes, rotting teeth, mouth sores and ulcers, rashed and hives, vision changes,hot flashesm bone aches, chest pains, extreme headaches, lack of creating tears, memory loss. | I have taken Lexapro and Xanax with much success but felt at 75%. I was so happy when the nurse practitioner stated "I can get you 100%." I was estatic. Last week I looked at my bleeding gums and loss of enamel and rotting teeth. I NEVER have had teeth problems in my life. I immediately went online for natural products (Celtic Sea Salt) to correct the problem. Itching I have to take Atarax. I took all of the pills left in the starter pack and flushed them down the toilet. DOT NOT TAKE THIS MEDICINE. YOU WILL LOSS TOOTH ENAMEL AND YOUR TEETH WILL ROT. I CALLED DR AND THEY WOULD NOT RETURN MY CALLS. I am a writer and I wanted to stabilize my moods but now my energies would be better served writing an expose on this EXPENSIVE MEDICINE AND I HAVE INSURANCE. I have never had severe side effects with meds with the exception of a headache or two. THIS MEDICINE WOULD KEEP ME UP ALL NIGHT AND THEN WHEN I WOULD SLEEP I WOULD HAVE THE STRANGEST DREAMS. I AM GOING TO RESEARCH NATURAL METHODS TO HELP ME WAVE MY KIDNEYS. OH AND MY MENSTRUAL CYCLE WOULD START WHENEVER IT FELT LIKE IT. THIS DRUG WITH KILL YOU AND ALSO I WOULD HAVE BLIND SPOTS IN THE CORNERS OF MY EYES WHERE I COULDN'T SEE. THROW THIS MEDICINE AWAY BECAUSE THE SIDE EFFECTS CAN COME IN YEARS OF TAKING OR WEEKS. I HAVE DONE A LOT OF RESEARCH AND IT IS THE SCARIEST MEDICINE AVAILABLE... | F | 40 | 5 weeks beginners 1X day | 10/27/2010 | 1 | Seizure disorder | Unbelievable side effects with this medication. I feel like a basket case. Severe anxiety; Mood swings; Memory loss (short term); Trouble concentrating; Poor word retrieval; Imbalance; Vivid, horrible dreams | F | 48 | 6 months 100 mg 3X day | 10/20/2010 | 1 | bipolar II | sore thorat, terrible cough, overall feeling fatigue, body aches | Although I was not on Lamicatal that long, I starting experiencing cold and flu symptoms when increasing the dosage. My mood was better, but unable to function because of feeling tired and sick with flu symptoms constantly. The body aches were unbearable. I do not recommend this medicine | M | 41 | 3 weeks 50 1X day | 6/12/2010 | 1 | epilepsy | Hair loss, depression, suicidal thoughts, lack of interest, easily confused, problems speaking, confusing left and right, aching teeth, irregular periods | Listen to your symptoms and yourself, NOT your doctor. Look at how many people have life altering side affects from this drug. Is it worth it? Stop thinking it won't happen to you...it happened to me and my hair has been falling out for 4 months | F | 28 | 1X day | 3/25/2010 | 1 | Mood swings | Severe back and joint pain, 3 spine fractures, high blood pressure, high triglycerides. | My 15 year old son started Lamictal 150 mg at age 12. He has suffered 3 fractures in his spine, terrible bone and joint pain, and high blood pressure. Hasn't been in school in 3 mo. Unable to sit. Been to Cleveland - Pittsburgh had spinal epidurals, facet injections, MRI, bone scans, spect scan, steroid inj, physical therapy, labwork, took many meds -put on Enbrel IM Injections for 3 mo hoping he might have arthritis. Doctors guessed arthritis or that his pain was in his head. Turns out LAMICTAL can cause. VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY which causes high blood pressure, elevated triglycerides, elevated ionized calcium /PTH, fractures AND MORE. Tapering off. Doc started 50,000IU vit D wkly. and 1000mg calcium daily. BE CAREFUL. Vit D Deficiency is serious. Have your blood checked. Lamictal can be helpful but the anticonvulsant family can cause Vit D deficiency. Are very thankful that we know the source of his pain. We now have hope that the next weeks and months will bring relief. We thank God. | M | 15 | 3 years | 5/3/2008 | 1 | | 3/29/2008 | 1 | Agression and Drepression | The first day that I started to take the medication from the Starter Kit, I experianced the normal side effects that it has said like dizziness and blurred vision. The other side effects that I have come across on the 3rd day is the whole left side of my face hurts so bad as if someone hit me with a baseball bat. The other one is that severe color blindness has set in to the fact that all my blacks are red and blues are purple. | M | 36 | 3 days | 2/3/2008 | 1 | Depression/ Bipolar 11 | Sleepy during the day (somewhat) hard to get up in the morning. | Strangely, the first couple of days I felt over the moon. Like my depression had lifted and the world was my oyster. Perhaps that was just a manic episode that just happened to hit right when I started taking it, though I never felt that good during a mania episode. I am on 400 mg a day. No rashes, some acne, BUT HAS DONE NOTHING FOR DEPRESSION. In fairness I have had huge stress, moving, relationship break up. Work issues, constant time changes 12 13 hour shifts. Dr. wants to add Depakote or Lithium, I am fed up. Dont want the weight gain and hair loss which would just depress me more. Feel like there is no hope. | M | 8 days | 1/25/2008 | 1 | Depression | Brother, It sounds like there is a door buzzer in my ears! Night sweats. The rest are tolerable, but really with the 1st 2, do I need to list less aggrivating ones? | It really did nothing at all as for as help, but then again I stopped it at day 15 as I couldn't take the buzzing in my ears anymore. I had advised the doctor and he said take it a few more days to see if it is a temporary side effect. This was the second day of dosing. I took it for 15 days. now i cant get this buzzing to go away. 5 days and counting.Also still night sweats still. Another of the guinea pig medicines that the little pill peddlers pawn off on the doctors and as all doctors do... try this and see if it helps | M | 41 | 15 days | 12/31/2007 | 1 | Epilepsy | Rash, fast heartrate ,clumsiness, bad stomach pains by the 6th and 7th day, but nothing compared to the mood swings! | Taken off of Lamictal after rash on my back, shoulders, chest, and neck showed up after 1 week. All I could think is thank God for the rash, because this med was making me nuts! I can't believe that it's supposed to stabilize moods. I felt suicidal, at times possibly homicidal, had odd thoughts, was very irritable and it was getting worse day by day. Personally, I was on Dilantin for 18 years and tried this one because it was supposed to be a newer better med with less side effects. Yeah, whatever!!! Don't get me wrong, Dilantin has some bad long-term side effects-but I couldn't take Lamictal for even a week! That tells you how bad Lamictal can be! In fact, I wish my doctors had to take this stuff, then maybe they would be a little more sensitive to what the heck it does to your mind! Now, apparently this med works for some people, but if you take it and feel like you're going whacko-trust me it's not just you. Everyone around me noticed the mood swings because they were so sho | F | 38 | 1 weeks | 12/29/2007 | 1 | Mood Swings | I was one of the unlucky souls who was allergic to this medication. I had numbing througout my limbs, very high fever, chills, and other flu like symptoms. I was so sick I lost my job. | | 8/23/2007 | 1 | Seizure Disorder | Had a very bad rash that (Although not the cause of my hospitalization at the time) was hard to cure and full body and if had not been in the hospital for a related issue I'd have been in trouble. | The rash is the main concern. | M | 38 | 1 months | 4/27/2007 | 1 | Pain from lower back injury | This is the WORST medication ever. Period. I was given the "beginnner pack" where the doses are increased over time. After 48 hours I suffered terrible vision problems and headaches. I called the doctor's office. I was told there was no way possible that it was the meds and to continue taking them. I was told it would reduce my pain significantly. HA. It reduce everything BUT my pain level. On the fourth day I was experiencing comatose symptoms for the first 4 hours. Then followed by 4 hours of hallucinations, ranting, raving, pacing, and uncontrollable crying....not to mention severe insomnia. I know what it feels like to be litterally losing your mind. My husband called the doctor to tell him of my side effects. The doctor told him there was no way that could happen and to take me to our local psych hospital. Funny...never was psychotic prior to taking this med, and even funnier, wasn't psychotic when I took myself off. It wasn't me. It was the pills. Listen | I would NOT ever recommend this drug to ANYONE. Ever. Period. | F | 42 | 5 days | 2/24/2007 | 1 | mood disorder | I had to be hospitalized after taking medication for less than one month. did okay on 25 mg but got ill as soon as dosage was upped to 50 mg. Caused congestive heart failure anemia, and liver damage. | F | 50 | 20 days | 12/7/2006 | 1 | mood disorder | I had to be hospitalized after taking medication for less than one month. did okay on 25 mg but got ill as soon as dosage was upped to 50 mg. Caused congestive heart failure anemia, and liver damage. | This s a good medicine for someone. It is most definitely not for me | F | 50 | 20 days | 12/7/2006 |
LAMICTAL CD (LAMOTRIGINE): Lamotrigine is used alone or with other medications to prevent and control seizures. It may also be used to help prevent the extreme mood swings of bipolar disorder in adults. Lamotrigine is known as an anticonvulsant or antiepileptic drug. It is thought to work by restoring the balance of certain natural substances in the brain. This drug is not approved for use in children younger than 2 years due to an increased risk of side effects (such as infections). FDA Approval Date: 1998-08-24 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)