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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LAMICTAL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | moodswings and anxiety | As far as working out, I seem to have more energy than before. No other workout changes so far. | F | 50 | 37 days | 2/25/2007 | 5 | moodswings and anxiety | I quit Wellbutrin and started Lamictal. Now I'm warm for the first time in my life. Unfortunately, I lost quite a bit of sexual responsiveness, either from quitting the Wellbutrin or from taking Lamictal (or both). No other side effects, except that food tastes absolutely delicious now, which is very enjoyable, but of course I have to be careful about gaining weight. | This is a miracle drug for me. I am free of all the anxiety and irritability that were making my life a living hell. I am free of the shame and self-hate, and I even have confidence in myself now. The moods have leveled out pretty well -- there's still a slight up and down but nothing compared to what it was. I am also free of the alternating loving and loathing of my partner. I think this has saved my relationship -- no small thing! | F | 50 | 37 days | 2/25/2007 | 1 | Epilepsy | I experienced night sweats, insomnia, deep depression, sore throat, and my body was starting to feel like I was hit by a mac truck, then I started to get an awful red rash all over my body. I stop taking the meds that day, I started to feel better in less than 24 hours. Within 48 hours my rash was gone, my throat felt better as well as my body. And it did nothing to control my seizures. | F | 34 | 12 days | 2/23/2007 | 4 | bp1 | Headache, nausea, no appetite, some dizziness early going. Dizzy if I miss two 100mg doses in a row. I write to address the athlete's question: I am not a career athlete, and I've been slacking off lately activity-wise, but I've taken this drug for a long time and, from my experience you have nothing to be concerned with. All the side effects - i never really had any muscular ones - went away within 6 months, and it doesn't cloud the mind like other anticonvulsants. It is very effective for the lows; I fortunately have not had a major ep either way since I took it, and perhaps more importantly I hardly have any minor swings - I think I'm more stable than "regular" people, actually. The reason I mention all this is because I think not only does this have no effects on your physical performance, it should prevent you from having alternating periods of high and low energy, which would lend itself to inconsistency in your physical stamina and your ability to adhere to your g | The best thing out there for bp1 in my experience. Depakote made my life worse than before diagnosis, Lamictal better than ever. May require add'l meds to supplement if have ME, though, if only temporarily. | M | 29 | 5 years | 2/20/2007 | 3 | Bipolar II, ADHD | Increased sweating(marginal),vivid dreams | Increased to 200mg dose for almost 2mo.Noticing increased anger issues,negative thoughts,constant complaing and irritation. I am used to having these feelings but I can't seem to be able to shake them. I also haven't worked in months, no ambition.Relationship with sig. other on the rocks(understandably),uncomfortable with self as well due to moods, afraid to be around people.Hoping an increased dose will benefit before I lose everything I love.Remind myself of my father,that realization is most frightening.(Verdict still out on BII diognostic;naive to prejudice that accompanies the term "bipolar") | F | 35 | 3 months | 2/19/2007 | 5 | bipolar I | Not sure if the muscle burning/ fatigue durine workouts is becauseof medications or not. Really no other side effects yet. | I'm an athlete and really stressing about the effects this will have on my body since my livelyhood is dependant upon it... anyone else on here workout regularly or is athletic that could let me know how its affected you and your performance? | F | 22 | 6 weeks | 2/17/2007 | 4 | Bi-Polar II, rapid cycling | Too soon to tell for sure which are side effects from going off the anti-depressant and which are side-effects from slowly going up from 25 mg a day to 100 mg a day (only on second day of the five week starter pack). Extreme irritability, crying jags, suicidal ideation, hypomanic work habits, mostly from being flipped into a mixed state because of going off the Cymbalta, that is beginning to mellow out. But the things that do seem related to the Lamictal are that I drop words a bit more often when talking but not when writing, seem to have muscles aches not due to exercise. Continued stomach upset and bowel upset, hard to tell whether it is from "withdrawl" from the anti-depressant or going on Lamictal or both. Will rate again after I've been on it for a while. | Too soon to tell how effective it will be. I have hope, but am also realistic about no med can solve everything realted to my mood disorder and the fact that lifestyle changes (regular sleep, exercise, etc) have to be part of the treatment. | F | 34 | 4 weeks | 2/17/2007 | 5 | Bipolar II | Nightsweats and trouble with sleeping because of constant and very unpleasant vivid dreams, which are extremely troubling and causing a lot of problems due to the lack of "good" sleep. | I've been taking the medication for about a year and a half, and overall it's been a "miracle drug" for me (I've tried so many meds in the past, and this has been the only one to help me), it's helped stabilize my moods to the point that I am better able to control my emotional responses to every day things. The medicine along with positive changes in my life has done wonders for me, and now I am better able to see a positive future for myself. Despite the side effects, it's a wonderful medication. | F | 26 | 1 years | 2/16/2007 | 3 | Bipolar disorder | Slight dryness of skin and hair, slight anxiety increase, weight fluctuations (large to small, etc.) | Much better than Abilify, which gave me ocular spasms, and Risperdal, which caused weight gain. | F | 16 | 3 weeks | 2/16/2007 | 2 | major depression along with PTSD | Itching all over my body from head to feet....mostly eyes, stomach, arms, & back without rash. Nausea & made food taste horrible. Almost throwing up. Horrible nightmare that went along with the PTSD issues I am dealing with. Throat feeling like flu without it being sore (just swollen feeling) & running nose with mild temperature. Next night couldn't sleep (maybe trying to avoid the nightmares) or beause I felt so horrible the day before I didn't get out of bed. | This all happened after only 2 25mg doses so pdoc dc'ed & prescribed antahistamine for reactions (allergic to benedryl, so trying atarax (vistaril). | F | 54 | | 2/16/2007 | 5 | bipolar disorder rapid cycling | initially i had some side effects when i would increase the dosage. i would get painful sores in my mouth but they would go away after a few days.once up to 100mg no more side effects even when uping the dose. no weight gain no sexual side effects which alot of other mood stabilizers tend to do. | This drug has been a miracle for me. it has helped immensly in controling my rapid cycling. most of the time its the only drug i need. ocassionally i take ativan for anxiety but not very often.it really seems to help the depression side of bipolar with out throwing you into mania like some SSRIs. i take 200mg at night and 100mg in the morning. | F | 24 | 2 years | 2/15/2007 | 4 | depression | mild headache but may be from the season too-usually have headaches this time of year because of my sinuses. Some itchiness on my arms, but probably from reading about the bad side effect of this drug lol. | I actually feel like doing housework and enjoy it. I'm up to 150mg now. I was on Wellbutrin before because I have RLS and Wellbutrin was the only antidepressant that didn't effect it. Wellbutrin worked great until I started to have violent mood swings and ended up in the hospital. As I increase the lamictal I feel better and better. RLS is still a problem but not worse than with the Wellbutrin. Prozac etc. made it much worse. | F | 63 | 5 weeks | 2/15/2007 | 3 | Epilepsy | Problems with memory loss - short term extending into long term. Reading, learning, vocabulary, calculations and describing/eplaining things to people. The problem is that i don't know if it is epilepsy or the drug or brain tumor. I hate not knowing. | It does the job but it has such a short half-life. if i go 12 - 18 hours without, partial it is. Any longer and my brain is a bomb ready to go off/I'm waiting for a full scale unconciousness so i try to have them scattered in as many places as posible. It does the job. | M | 27 | 8 years | 2/14/2007 | 3 | Epilepsy | Memory loss - short term extending into long term. Reading, learning, vocabulary, calculations and describing/eplaining things to people. The problem is that i don't know if it is epilepsy or the drug or brain tumor. I hate not knowing. | It does the job but it has such a short half-life. if i go 12 - 18 hours without, partial it is. Any longer and my brain is a bomb ready to go off/I'm waiting for a full scale unconciousness so i try to have them scattered in as many places as posible. It does the job. | M | 27 | 8 years | 2/14/2007 | 2 | major depression, panic/anxiety | headache, dizziness | I am feeling very discouraged because it seems most are having success with drug yet I am not. Have tried many other drugs. Nothing seems to work to any great degree. I used to be a very loving, patient, good humored person but now I am moody, irritable and seem to have very little compassion for others. Can someone please tell me how long on the drug before they started getting results. I have titrated up to 200 mg and have been on that level for about 4 weeks now. If I were going to be helped by the drug, shouldn't I already started feeling better by now? | M | 35 | 50 days | 2/13/2007 | 5 | Bipolar II | No Side Effects | This medication gave me my life back! I have tried every psych med (literally) and this is the one for me. It can pull me out of a depression within days. I can't recommend this drug enough. | M | 38 | 6 years | 2/11/2007 | 4 | Depression & personality disorder | Small rash first few days. Dry sinus for first 4 weeks until got to 100mg. Suicidal thoughts came back at 75-100mg, but now at 125mg they've suddenly faded away. Now at 125mg and having severe issues with spelling, using keyboard (I'm normally a fast typist, but now I constantly reach for wrong letters). It's as if my brain can't control wher my fingers are going on the keyboard. short term memory...can't seem to get the right word out my memory bank. All that aside, I'm falling in love with it. | My Pdoc recommended adding Lamictal to add boost to my Cymbalta. I was going through severe stress and anxiety got so bad I reached for Zyprexa almost daily, which I hate. I hate lithium because you can't hide the shakes, and it makes you so numb. I must say that Lamictal is really, really working to stabilize my mood swings. I recommend it highly, in spite of side effects. It is literally a lide-saver!! | F | 48 | 5 weeks | 2/11/2007 | 3 | BiPolar/Depression | I am SO happy to read some of the other people's side effects on this drug. I recently made an appointment with a neurologist to have an evaluation done because I thought I was losing my mind or getting Alzheimer's, like my Mom. I have experienced trouble typing, finding the right words and stumbling over my words in conversation, trouble concentrating and staying focused, bloating, nausea and upset stomach, slight loss of balance and coordination, dropping things, slight blurred vision, diminished libido, and lots of trouble with handwriting--like leaving out letters, scrambled letters, and basically trouble writing at all. I was an honors student all through school, including college, but these apparent side effects have made feel very stupid and/or sick. | I am slowly discontuing Effexor, which I have taken for almost 7 years while slowly ramping up with Lamictal. At least my depression hasn't reapeared. But the side effects I am experiencing are quite disconcerting and bothersome. | F | 58 | 2 months | 2/11/2007 | 5 | bipolar II | Can't find the right word for conversation. Need to urinate, but only a little comes out. | Newly diagnosed. Been on Wellbutrin for 8 years for misdiagnosed depression. I use to enjoy the "high" Wellbutrin would bring, but the lows became to low and the "high" more like anxiety. Very hopeful for this med. Want to feel "normal" | F | 37 | 8 days | 2/9/2007 | 2 | Depression and/or Bipolar I | I just started taking Lamictal today. I started Seroquel one week ago. Was feeling like living again, but gaining weight with the Seroquel. Today first dose of lamictal, upset stomach all day. Not sure if related, but really scared after reading all the stuff that has been posted. | Could somebody please tell me the difference between being depressed and bipolar. I am already overweight and have hair loss even before the drugs started. | M | 51 | 1 days | 2/9/2007 |