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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LAMICTAL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | Bipolar11 Psychotic | I find that it makes me have pain in my hips and legs also I experienced bad neck and shoulder pain yesterday for the first time. I have been taking the 25 mg for 3 weeks now and will be going up to the 50 mg this week. I like that I feel more clear headed from it and it controls the anger to a point, I have had some minor outbursts the first week from it and some memory issues. I don't like the pain I am getting and if it keeps it up I will probally go back to depakote. I stopped the depakote because the Dr. said I was sleeping way too much and I could not stand how hungry I was all the time and the xtra weight I put on. After reading through all the side effects I am hoping that I will be one of the lucky ones and it will help me and the pain issues will go away as I cannot take the pain like this. | I guess I will give it a longer trial period and I'll post any new side effects, or if the worst side effects go away with an increase of medicine, because I see some say the dosage can make a big difference. As for now I'll grin and bear the pain. | F | 49 | 3 weeks | 1/19/2009 | 4 | Grand Mal Seizures | Unexplained source of pain in my legs,night sweats,dreams,can't recall anything from the day before, tired,lethargic,weight gain,dry skin,slurred speech. I feel like I am in a tunnel most of the time. | If your Doctor suggest that you take this drug. Tell him no it is not worth risking your life. It may even effect you the way it did my friend. Causing them a horrible rash almost taking their life. | F | 30 | 4 years | 1/18/2009 | 1 | Bi Polar Disorder | Extreme hypersensitivity both emotional as well as physical. Cry at every Feed the Children commercial on TV, yelling at co-workers bright red cheeks on fire tender skin and hair follicles... | Built up to 300 over several months while decreased and eventually stopped taking 60 mg Cymbalta that I had been on for several years. | F | 38 | 6 months | 1/16/2009 | 5 | Bipolar II | Night sweat. Temperature sensitiv. Small rash on my hands. Lamictal is the only medicine that i use. | A year ago I was searching like crazy on the net trying to find out what was wrong with me and I stumble on this page. Now that I have been cured I thought it would be nice to write some lines. I think that those who have been cured by this drug stop searching the net because they don’t need to and that’s why you have more negative feedback than positive on this medicine. Anyway, the depressive side forced me into a black hole that I could get out from without help. Started out with large doses of pure fish oil (6 large capsules a day with Omega 3 without vitamins), that lifted me up some (it took 3 months). Finally I was diagnosed bipolar II and put on lamictal. I am on 200mg a day plus fish oil and I have to say that I have never felt better. My brain is working again, all thoughts of dead has gone, muscle tension is much better, I have control over my anxiety +++. If lamictal or other drugs fail….try fish oil. | M | 42 | 2 months | 1/13/2009 | 4 | BIPLOAR 2 | blurry vision - decreased sex drive | 100mg a day - a great improvement with mood - no more cycling - racing thoughts. My remedy 1) 20 min. in am w/ sun lamp 2)1500 mg OmegaBrite Omega-3 gels 3) Lamictal | M | 42 | 19 months | 1/12/2009 | 1 | Bipolar I | Pretty much the same as the person below. Too many too list. | I am glad I found this sight. I agree with the 42 Y.O. F assesment below. I had to stop taking it because of the worst side effects in the world. I was lead to believ this would help me. Yea right. I am now back on Depakote ER with a low dose of Prozac and I have been doing fine. | M | 29 | 6 months | 1/10/2009 | 1 | Bipolar | Poor concentration, loss of coordination and balance, poor sleep with vivid frighening dreams, scalp itch with hair loss, cannot find the "right" word, slurred speach, intense hedache always upon waking and atleast once more during the day, unexplained dental problems, acne, weird brusing,unexplainned leg pain and vertigo. There maybe more, as I most likely have forgotten something. | Well, where to start. Can I concentrate enough to write this? Will I have to stop to look up the correct spelling of a word? Will I even remember the word I am looking up? Maybe I will fly into an unprovoked rage while trying to complete this. Perhaps I will have to leave the computer because I suddenly feel like I might vomit. Maybe my scalp will itch and I will have my hair fall out on my keyboard. These questions for now remain unanswered. The upside is that I won't fall down tripping on air since I am sitting nor slur my speach since I am not attempting the great feat of speaking. I cannot even put into words how angry I am right now. I have reported almost all of these thing to my shrink, except for the things that I thought couldn't even be remotely related. My very thorough family doctor was concerned but puzzled after many tests (CAT scan, blood work ups, referals) but felt like there was nothing left to explore. Last month I was accompanied by my long-suffering husban | F | 42 | 3 years | 1/3/2009 | 1 | bipolar | massive hair loss, memory loss, weight gain, depression | felt like I was in a fog, couldn't be happy | F | 33 | 3 months | 1/2/2009 | 4 | depression/mood stabilizer | tiredness, dizziness, brain fog, lethargic. | I have taken 100 mg for over a year, but I recently increased to 150mg in the morning. My moods have been great,I am much more stabile, and I feel like I now know what 'normal people feel like". But I am so tired that it is imporrsible. I will be lowering my doasage. I can sleep for 10 hours a night, and still be tired!I I don't have physical energy and have stopped working out (something I always did before). As a note I noticed that people who are taking lamictal for depression seem to note more drowsiness and tiredness as a side effect then the bi-polars. | F | 26 | 18 months | 12/31/2008 | 2 | Bipolar II | Experienced a lot of hair loss. Initially felt good the first week and then quite depressed and hopeless the second week taking it. | I am not sure if this can be attributed to lamictal, but since I stopped taking it, I have been more irritable/on-edge than ever w/ racing thoughts and it's been hard for me to fall asleep. | F | 17 | 2 weeks | 12/31/2008 | 5 | Bi-Polar I w/psychosis | I just restarted taking Lamictal along w/Risperdal. I had a cold before restarting so not sure if the side effects are coincidental. | I have been on this medicine combination before and I am so much better than before,I am happy to be back on it, the side effects don't outweigh the benefits for me. I have no more racing thoughts(at this time)my energy levels are great | F | 41 | 3 weeks | 12/30/2008 | 5 | Bipolar Disorder | At first I experienced chapped lips and a little fatigue. It went away after about a month. I now feel totally back to normal and better than I have in my whole life. Mood is stable, emotions regulated, I am able to keep a job for more than 6 months. Great energy, good sleeping, and good eating habits. | F | 36 | 1 years | 12/30/2008 | 2 | BiPolar2 | Itchy - insomnia. Feeling of rage and I am more likely to tell someone off. Hostility. Feeling that people are staring at me...paranoid. lack of coordination. Muscle pain. Vertigo. | There were times I felt this was really helping me, and then I felt like it turned on me. I felt anger inside and an undercurrent of rage. I told people off and used the middle finger on the road quite a bit. I believe my motorcycle crash was directly related to my inability to judge my speed and braking - impaired feeling when driving. | M | 45 | 1 years | 12/30/2008 | 2 | simple partial seizures/epilepsy | hand tremors, occasional double vision,sexual disfunction, and of course I still have those seizures. | I have had seizures since the age of 15 and have been on almost every drug and drug study possible. I had left tempral lobe surgery twice with no luck and a vagal nerve stimuator, again with no luck. My doctor recently put me on lamictal and I have had an increase in tremors and started to notice erectile disfunction and my wife and I have finally figured out what the problem was. | M | 44 | 9 months | 12/29/2008 | 2 | bipolar | severe acne on face, back, and chest | It worked really well for me mentally, but I couldn't take the only side effect it gave me, which was acne. All over my face, back, and chest and no matter what products I used, it persisted. I stopped taking it and now my face it completely clear. Other than that, which to me was a really big turn off, it gave me energy and stabilized my mood great. I'm on geodon now, but I'm extremely tired so I'm going to switch to something else. Hopefully I'll find the right medication. | F | 23 | 5 months | 12/25/2008 | 2 | mood stabilizer | severe, severe back pain, can not stand up due to pain. Headache and nausea if I don't eat. Eating makes me feel sick as well | As soon as I stopped the medication I felt better. | M | 17 | 2 days | 12/21/2008 | 3 | Mood Stabalizer | Weight Gain, Irritabilty/Depression when I miss a dose | Lamictal by far has been the best mood stabalizer for me, however I am stuggling with the weight gain. Since February its been about 15 lbs. I'm thinking about switching meds because I delt with extreme weight gain before with Depakote and I don't want to go through that again. This is just my experience with the medicine... I know some people loose weight on it. | F | 24 | 9 months | 12/19/2008 | 3 | bipolar 2 | brain fog (esp. with each increase in dosage), decreased coordination/balance, hair loss, blurred vision, NEED to eat otherwise i get sick, feelings of withdrawl if i wait too long (1-2 hours) to take it, insomnia | it has definitely stabilized my mood which now has helped me notice that i have a lot of anxiety (which i never noticed because it was hard for me to differentiate between hypomania and anxiety). so now i realize that i need something to help my anxiety and irritability and don't really want to increase the lamictal. my side-effects become more noticeable with each increase. i felt i could deal with the side effects (esp. the brain fog) because i'm a stay-at-home mom. every once in a while it makes it really difficult to drive and is kind of scary. for some reason the brain fog has been especially bad the past few days and i can't seem to shake it. in regards to the insomnia, i take my lamictal in the morning and i take trazodone at night to help me sleep which is 100% necessary. the other day my husband noticed that my hair was thinning (an upclose evaluation) which would make sense seeing as how small clumps of hair would fall out with each shower. this has seemed to tape | F | 30 | 1 years | 12/19/2008 | 3 | Bipolar/Mood Stabilizer | This medication made me feel like a zombie practically everday,blurred vission,day dreamed minutes at a time I had to snap myself out of them becuase it would mostly happen when I was around people,painul migranes,contipation,less driven,very weak and tired,loss of short term memory,slurred words sometimes not being able to finish a sentence. Overall I did not feel normal,let alone alive! | Lamictal seemed to work the first couple of weeks, I felt more friendly,I began to talk more. Although,after months of taking it my moods became worse, I became lazy and I was not able to work out like I am use to. The worst thing about this medicine is that you really do feel like a zombie just roaming around not really able to face reality. Another bad thing was the slurred speech and not being able to describe or express things very well, and that was embarassing!! If you are taking this medicine write down how you feel everyday, and how you felt before you were on the medication so you can keep a record of the positive/negative effects it may be having. That was my mistake, I probably would have been off of it by now! Good luck | F | 23 | 5 months | 12/19/2008 | 4 | Bipolar | confusion,memory loss, hair loss, body temp.rising,insomnia.Skin itches unmercifully at times,dry too. I also think it is responsible for what was thought to be premenopause. I didn't realize that I was having that many side effects. | This medication was at the time a miracle for me. I have been on some type of antidepressent for 23 yrs. Some worked for awhile, then they stopped. That is when I was diagnosed bipolar.That was 2yrs. ago. I went to my Dr. today. I told him it wasn't working.I needed a change. I am tapering off starting tonight.He said we would discuss another drug in 2 weeks when this was out of my system. To those of you looking for the right one or combo..don't give up! | F | 49 | 2 years | 12/18/2008 |