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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LAMICTAL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 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 | 1 | mood stabilizer | blackouts, short term and long term memory loss, confusion, loss of cognative function. I repeat things over and over. | I asked my Dr. about these effects over about a year and a half and they were just brushed aside as "probably from the meds" (I have a severe autoimmune disease and take pain meds as well). Now, I've discovered I've had "blackouts" and even when presented with recording of my actions, have no recollection. I've been off the drug for about 6 months. Now my Dr. says I should see a neurologist because lamictal can cause that. Research on the net displays common refrence to "lamictal stupid" and many, many other refrences to cognative loss related to lamictal. I am (was) a senior research biologist. I lost my job due complications from my disease and loss of cognative ability and inability to focus - brought on by meds while I attempted to continue working. I repeat things intermably and this disease and effects from meds (primarily lamictal) have caused my wife to leave me, lost my home, buried in medical debts, and feel kinda hopeless. Has anybody else experienced these symptoms? Most importantly, have they gone away after cessation of use? Thanks! | M | 57 | 200mg 1X day | 9/14/2011 | 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 | 4 | treatment-resistant depression | drowiness, sun sensitivity (which resulted in a sun rash), intense itching, and the feeling like bugs were crawling on or under my skin | The sensation of bugs crawling on my skin increases depending on my dose. It started at 100 mg, about a week or 2 after my sun rash healed. Splitting the dose helps and makes me more comfortable during the day, but taking the second dose in the afternoon or in the evening makes me extremely uncomfortable... which makes sleep almost impossible at night. I hope this is temporary, otherwise I might have to consider discontinuing the medicine even though it is helping with my depression. I have no signs of the SJS rash though, so hopefully it will stop at the itchiness. Also of interest is that I only started getting side effects by the 6th week of being on it. I didn't have any at all initially. | F | 25 | 4 months 150 mg 2X day | 9/6/2011 | 2 | Migraine Prevention | Day 12: Fever, stiff neck, muscle aches, and nausea, flushed. Day 13: Fever 102, nausea, red rash on chest, upper arms, upper back, face. (medication discountinued) Day 14: Fever 101, rash on torso, upper arms, neck, face, thighs. Day 14: fever 99, rash on entire body, mostly bright red everywhere. | I have intractable migraines from sun exposure on my skin. I'm practically trapped inside my house because even covering up with darkroom blackout fabric that leaves my face exposed results in migraines from sun reflection on my face off of cars, the sidewalk, etc. We tried Lamictal after neurontin and topomax didn't work for me (I'm also on 125 mg amitryptilene and 120 mg propanolol ER but we can't go up on those doses, and I get botox every 3 months). I was started on 25 mg lamictal in the morning and 25 mg in the evening. I didn't know at the time that this was twice the recommended starting dose. I got a rash on day 12 with a fever. The rash kept growing even though the fever kept going down. On the third day of the rash (a holiday), my neuro sent me to the ER with an all-over body rash. It was just slightly itchy and painful. All the staff kept coming in to look at me because they had never seen a lamictal rash before. The ER sent me home with a prescription for prednisone and the suggestion to put lidocaine on the rash to reduce pain and itchiness. They said there was no reason to believe the prednisone would work, but it's not risky so we might as well try it. Lidocaine made me insanely itchy! I couldn't sleep. I washed it off, but that didn't help. That was yesterday. I took a shower today and am still crazy itchy, but the rash is finally pulling back a little--it's still all over my body, but more splotchy instead of solid red. | F | 43 | 13 days 25 2X day | 9/6/2011 | 4 | mood stabilizer Bi-Polar Borderline | Vivid Dreams- profuse Sweating. | I have taken Lamictal 3 years ago for almost 2 years- 400Mgs- but the DR I was going to then had me on Mirtazapine which made me gain 75 pounds! I qoit taking all the meds, and lost the weight, but also went back into a deeeeeep depression, mood swings, and crying every day with much sadness. This go around I am exercising and watching what I eat.as of yet have not gained not even one pound. I am holding my breath. also taking Klonopin- and Zyprexa. | F | 42 | 3 months 300 1X day | 9/4/2011 | 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 | 3 | Bipolar 1 | Tingling in back of throat, restlessness, a bit hyper, insomnia first few days after that I slept but woke often, vivid dreams (good ones), yawning, tingling in eyeballs. | The side effects were minimal. Didn't like the hyper feeling. Got a lot of work done though. Felt less depressed right away! | F | 58 | 12 days 100mg 1X day | 8/25/2011 | 2 | mood stabilizer | hair loss, bitchiness, loss of appetite, increased depression | Perhaps I'm not at the "therapeutic dose" yet, but at this dose I'm a complete bitch and more depressed than every. Even 450 of Wellbutrin can't compensate. And clumps of hair are coming out every day in the shower and I've got thin hair as it is. I shudder to consider going on Depakote - would I rather be bald or big as a house? Lithium is not an option as I am already hypothyroid. | F | 48 | 3 months 100 1X day | 8/10/2011 | 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 | 2 | bpd- to regulate my moods | nausea, headache, insomnia, muscle spasms, unable to concentrate, trouble with speech, trouble finding the correct words when speaking, memory loss,drowsy/sleepy, suicidal thoughts, severe mood change (couldn't get along with anyone), anxiety, things didn't taste the same,some dizziness | Well, if you want to quit smoking, then maybe you should try this med, as I've been smoking for 22 years and when I started taking this med, cigarettes suddenly tasted nasty. I've drastically decreased the amount of cigs I smoke and am nearly about to quit for good which is a good thing. In fact it's the only good thing that's come from me taking lamictal. When my doctor increased my dosage from 25mg to 50mg for a couple of weeks, I became very suicidal, had terrible insomnia, severe mood change (and i don't mean better moods, but worse moods). My doctor then decreased me back to 25 mg and those certain things that I mentioned are not so bad anymore. I honestly do not think that lamictal has helped my moods what so ever. | F | 37 | 2 months 25 1X day | 7/30/2011 | 3 | Mood disorder | Headache, nausea, vivid dreams, forgetfulness, confusion, incoordination, sleepiness | I have some sort of mood disorder according to my doctor who said its not BPD because it changes too frequently and I dont do anything super bad like spend all my money or lose my job. Anyways weirdly enough I am fine on 25mg, it makes me more stable and able to focus, quiets my racing mind and makes me much less irritable and able to let things go. On 25mg I still get the dreams but I like them. However, when I went to 50mg, I got bad headaches every day, nausea and was so tired at my job that no matter how much coffee I drank I could not stay awake. I am a PhD candidate and teach and I became so forgetful it was embarrasing. I am normally very quick and I could not continue to take it at that dose so I actually went off it first but I became a nervous wreck so now I"m back on 25mg and doing ok. | F | 34 | 1 months 50 mg 1X day | 7/26/2011 | 1 | Depression and Mood Instability | TARO GENERIC LAMICTAL DOES NOT WORK. I was perfectly fine on 200 mgs of BRAND Lamictal. It worked great, and I had no side effects. I switched to 200 mgs of GENERIC TARO lamotrigine, and it stopped working. I increased my dose from 200 mg up to 300 mgs over three months. TARO GENERIC LAMICTAL DID NOT WORK. I switched back to brand Lamictal. I had an immediate overdose on the same 300 mg dose. I experienced double vision, loss of balance, skin desensitization, loss of taste, extreme agitation. Doctor told me this was a "toxic reaction." This indicates that there is no active drug in the generic. I was taking TARO generic Lamictal lamotrigine. Now switched back to Lamictal XR, and am taking the starter pack. I am hoping to get back up to 200 mg of brand Lamictal. | Lamictal saved my life, fixed my depression, and stabilized my mood swings. TARO generic lamotrigine Lamictal seems to have no working drug in it. It nearly killed me, because when I switched back to the same dose of the brand drug, I overdosed. This indicates that there is no active drug in the Taro generic lamotrigine. | M | 54 | 3 months 300 1X day | 7/24/2011 | 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 | 2 | Bipolar/BPD/bulimia | headache, dry eyes, insomnia | I was put on this drug because my antidepressants were not working anymore and I was having episodes of mania. I'm not sure if I can say this drug is going to work for me or not because I've only been taking it for 3 weeks and at a low dose but if things don't change quick, I don't know what to do. I don't feel depressed, but I find myself crying at times when I'm not even sad. I have way more manic episodes but i'm not sure if that's just because I'm noticing what those feeling are now? I want to up the dose and wait awhile before I can say this drug works for me or not. | F | 25 | 3 weeks 50 MG 1X day | 7/15/2011 | 1 | Bipolar II & Eating disorder | massive weight gain (20 kg in a year!!) tremble in inner thigh, and groin. acne ,dry skin, very dry eyes! Can't foces on words while reading, forget words and spelling. Short term memory LOST! | I tend to ask the same question again and again because i forget! Huge head aces (like pins in my head) Also take ENTUMIN for sleeping problems (when started on Lamictal coulden't sleep) After exspressing many wishes to stop lamictal tretment started by taking 150MG per day, felt horrbole deppresed again so went back to 200MG now after reading here realzed that so many of the things i went through were because of the pill, in a few days I have an appointment where im going to put my foot down and begin a decressing of the pill!! THANK YOU FOR ALL THE COMMENTS! IT HELPED ME SO SO MUCH! | F | 18 | 1 years 200MG 2X day | 7/13/2011 | 4 | bi-polar 2 | None yet,some symptoms that I can't say if they are from ageing(eg memory problems I already had), aching on waking or sitting still for a long time. Some may be from other like it is winter and i developed chilblains on my fingers which we first thought was 'the Rash". Also had tender breasts and a longer period than usual but this may be early menopause. Slightly itchy back of neck. Nothing too major so far and I started on 100mg a day. | Have been feeling the most stable I have felt in a long while. I seem to be a lot more tolerant with my 5 and 8 year old children and don't seem to have such severe volatile outbursts.I hope this continues as my marriage was being severely affected. | F | 43 | 9 weeks 100 1X day | 7/12/2011 |