LAMICTAL Reviews (LAMOTRIGINE)

Average Rating: 3.4 (1917 Ratings)

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LAMICTAL  (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: 1994-12-27 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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 2  Depressive disorder My experience with Lamictol was not good. I started with 25 mg and was told to titrate up to 50mg. This medicine made me so tired. I also noticed I felt numb. No feelings at all. The feeling I would get is anger but unable to let it out. I lowered back to 25 mg for a week or so them stopped cold turkey. Well I am on 2 weeks without it. Not feeling great thats for sure. Your tired in it, but exhausted off it. I feel I have become depressed again, but know its due to withdrawal so am trying to accept it. I did have a headache for about 10 days. I notice I am feeling anger, not that I am an angry person normally, but have issues in my life that are making me angry and withdrawal is exacerbating these feelings. I have come close to going back on it for some relief from fatigue, but gonna push through it. I would rather feel life than be numb. Not good. Should have never started this poison. F 51 3 months
50mg
4/22/2016
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 5  Mood Stabilizer Muscle aches in the beginning which lasted approximately 4 weeks. Photosensitivity that has increasingly become more bothersome. I have experienced periods of depression for as long as I can remember even as a child. However, I was not treated for it until my 20s when I was diagnosed with postpartum depression after my 3rd child. My OB prescribed welbutrin which did absolutely nothing. Overtime the symptoms went away (or either I just dealt with it). I was in a toxic marriage that ended in a nasty divorce and my depression was accompanied with extreme mood swings and short periods of manic episodes. My PCP prescribed me Xanax which helped a lot but became addictive and I began making bad decisions while taking it. It made me feel like "I just don't care" which was much better than feeling out if control at the time but just didn't work for me because I had small children to take care of so I stopped taking it. I felt out of control for years and the people I loved the most walked on eggshells because they never knew what type of mood I was going to be in. Then I discovered "weed" in my late 20s early 30s. It was a miracle drug. I functioned better in high stressed situations, including at work and I was actually a pleasant person to be around. I smoked marijuana in the morning before my kids woke up, on my lunch break and before I went to bed. I finally felt like a normal human being until I accepted a higher paying position in my company that required random drug testing because I was working with people who operated heavy equipment. I made the decision to stop smoking weed because F 36 3 years
100mg
4/6/2016
 4  Bipolar II Soaking night sweats every night causing me to frequently change pajamas and sheets. Constipation, weight loss, headaches, dizziness. Debilitating nausea during the night, but that only lasted a week. Worked wonders for my bp2 but I just couldn't deal with the side effects. F 25 1 days
200mg
4/4/2016
 3  Mood swings bi polar disorder I ran out of it and became so depressed I couldn't function. Went to ER and the doctor put me right back on it. The doctor that originally prescribed it would not refill despite the fact I had been on it for so many years. Severe withdrawals. F 55 1 years
100
3/31/2016
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 5  Bipolar I weight gain Very happy. Less side effects than all the other meds I'm on or have been on. F 44 5 years
200mg 2X day
3/29/2016
 3  seizures Headaches dry mouth M 41 4 months
150
3/22/2016
 4  Bipolar Extremely painful headaches in the front of my head. I am always feeling tired.My moods have gotten better. I don't freak out and go berserk on everyone now. F 40 1 months
100
3/8/2016
 1   Very bad med. Horrible med caused severe knees and joint pain, chill and goose bump, dry mouth, fatigue, weight gain. Advice all patients never take this med. F 64 10 days
3/3/2016
 1  mood stabilizer Severe vertigo. Learned lamictal is a sodium channel blocker and vertigo is caused by a sodium imbalance. Mind feel stuffed with cotton or tin foil on different days. No help in stabilizing mood. Tapering down 2-5 mg every 2-3 months for two years now. Be very careful tapering down - life feels very futile for a few days so surround yourself with lot's of comfort and safety. it takes several weeks to normalize when I go down 5 mg. I'm at 20 mg/day now and hope to be done by the end of 2016. M 53 7 years
100 mg 1X day
2/26/2016
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 2  Major Recurring Depresson Constipation, weight gain, balance problems, tiredness Another useless drug. I am so tired of these experiments on me. F 60 3 weeks
50mg 1X day
2/17/2016
 3  Epilepsy I have developed constipation after 7 years of using it. I experience dry scalp and skin every once in a while. My depression has worsened after starting Lamictal. I have had a lot of trouble gaining weight since on it. On the upside, I have been seizure free for years. I have muscle spasms, however, they are very infrequent. The side effects are absolutely horrendous, but I do like not having seizures. M 21 7 years
100
2/10/2016
 1  Seizures Muscle aches and pains like crazy. Not able to sleep more than 2 hours at a time during the night yet very sleepy during the day. Made me feel angry and anxious, frustration. Felt like I had the flu. Called my doctor this morning telling him that I cannot take it. F 60 10 days
25 milligr
2/5/2016
 1  Seizures Muscle aches and pains like crazy. Not able to sleep more than 2 hours at a time during the night yet very sleepy during the day. Made me feel angry and anxious, frustration. Felt like I had the flu. Called my doctor this morning telling him that I cannot take it. F 60 10 days
25 milligr
2/5/2016
 1  Epilepsy Tardive dyskinesia, rigidity walking up stairs, trouble moving eyes, slowed breathing, twitching in legs, feet, fingers and wrists, graying hair, dry skin, yellowing skin, orthostatic hypotension, urinary problems, gum problems, confusion, memory problems, palpitations I was on this drug for 18 years, not 10. I would not recommend Lamictal to anyone on this planet, for any reason. It is pure poison. The fact that I am off of it is a miracle I thank God for every day. There is permanent, serious damage from Lamictal, to be sure. I am so grateful to be free of this evil drug. F 44 10 years
200 mg
2/2/2016
 5  Bipolar NOS & Self Injury Addiction Sleepy during the day, otherwise no adverse side effects. Wears off over the span of years. Take at night. Do not miss a dose--take every day or else you will have a huge withdrawl hangover. This medication saved my life. I started this medication in 2006 soon after being diagnosed with Bipolar NOS, also carrying in-tow a crippling self-injury addiction. I was not stable, my mood swings were uncontrollable, razors controlled my life, and I am still so thankful I didn't kill myself before finding help. I spend around 3-4 months trying medication after medication to stabalize me, but absolultly nothing was working. I was finally put on this medication (i did not get a rash even though I went straight up to a high dose), and it was immediately like night-and-day for me. I suddenly wasn't a slave to my emotional state, and my thoughts became more clear instead of being muffled. This medication gave me clarity when I had absolutely none. Of course, medication cannot cure addictions or change the way you think, but lamotrigine (I take the generic) gave me the stability I needed to start the process of quitting and the mental sharpness to see logic and sanilty when I was considering cutting. Otherwise, the craving just consumed everything. After only being on this medication for maybe 4-6 months and was put on 30mg abilify to 'seal the deal' if you will, I had cut down from cutting 2-4 times every single day to cutting once every 2-3 weeks. That was a huge deal for a stressed out, self-conscious high schooler like me. At around the 8th year, I had a huge mental illness/SI relapse while in college. I went to my psychaitrist regarding this and was put on a medium F 23 10 years
300mg 1X day
1/26/2016
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 3  Mood stabilizer I can no longer get buzzed on coffee nor alcohol. I cannot have an orgasm. I have become a shell of a woman. Want to go off. I am on Abilify. Good cocktail … or too much? F 56 9 years
600 mg
1/20/2016
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 2  Epilepsy Aggression getting worse as the dose seems to increase. I really cannot explain as its my son who have mad episodes of aggression as he has a intellectual disability. As he cant tell me how he's feeling and I can't pick up what is wrong with him. We have done tests from MRI, Renal, eyes and dental which were all clear. Since he started at a low dose on Lamictal at 25mg he continued to have seizures but as we increased to 50mg he then became moody. Increasing now to 100mg its controlled the seizures but his aggression is worsening to the point where he throws his head back anywhere from wall to floor. As he wears a helmet at all times it doesn't keep him safe. Once he's in this aggression mood I cannot control him otherwise he's on a attack to me or whomever is trying to calm him. Feeling scared sometimes that he's going to really hurt himself or others. Spoken to specialist but they say it will pass overtime. M 22 2 years
100 1X day
1/19/2016
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 4  Bipolar 1 Memory loss, cognitive deficiency, hair loss Saved my life during a manic episode and stabilized my mood for 18 months. Eventually, effectiveness wore off. **Only use name brand F 2 years
1/12/2016
 1  Depression/anxiety Anxiety,worsened depression, stiff neck, flu like, sore throat, lowered immune system, hip pain, urination, dry skin, stuffy nose, insomnia, headaches, memory issues, hair graying/loss. I think the ceo's of companies caught hiding negative info about their drugs should get life in prison/death penalty. The whole system is corrupt IMHO. I was on this briefly years ago with reasonable results...but that was the name brand. I started to develop some depression due partly to a partner that had anger/control issues. Started taking this again but this time it was generic Teva which is beyond garbage. It caught me off guard because I didn't realize generic meds are a joke and it made everything much worse, it lowered my immune system so much that getting a cold felt like pneumonia.I constantly felt like I was on the verge of getting a cold or fly and had no idea that the drug was causing this at all, especially when it worked pretty good before. I firmly believe all generic meds should be thoroughly tested and not just given the green light because of the brand name being approved. The other problem is I think GSK has some info about this med that they never released to the public and with their horrific track record of corruption, no one should be surprised. I'm also a firm believer that psychiatry is the dirty secret of medicine and the way dangerous meds are approved there is zero interest in public safety. If you look at the side effects of this med you see only occasional reports of memory loss or hair loss but , reading the reviews of actual people taking it you see a completely different story. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that someone must be hiding the truth about these meds because you don't see hair loss listed as a common side effect but it seems to come up here pretty often... M 41 2 years
1/5/2016
 3  Bipolar II Did a gradual step up to 100 MG and after a couple weeks at 100 MG I started to feel crazy. I was super scatterbrained, couldn't sleep and was talking out loud to myself ALL the time. Went back down to 50 MG and still can't sleep but no longer feel nutso bonko. My mood is definitely more stable since i have been taking it. has dried out my scalp and skin a little. F 48 2 weeks
100 1X day
12/31/2015

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