LAMICTAL CD Reviews (LAMOTRIGINE)

Average Rating: 3.1 (135 Ratings)

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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)

  

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 4  mood disorder none F 34 1 weeks
7/24/2007
 3  epilepsy - complex partial siezure Started off with chronic runny nose. By the time I reached full dose - 100mg am and pm - I was having lower back pain. Despite the back pain, I was in a very optimistic upbeat mood. I subsequently started having unbearable muscle spasms down the back of my legs. I was taking too much ibuprophen during the day just to function. I wasn't sleeping well due to the pain. Some days getting out of bed nearly brought me to tears because the ibuprophen had worn off. I had to ween myself of the ib. The muscle spasms have slowly dissipated, but I still have the back pain and overall joint aches. Now I'm dealing with night sweats and near panic attacks, bordering on depression, trouble with mixing up words. I feel like I'm 80 years old and don't want to do anything. I have had no siezures on the 6 months I have been on this. I hope to be tapered down to a lower dose so I can feel human again. I was on dilantin previously. It made me feel like a tired zombie, but I no other side effects. F 53 6 months
7/23/2007
 4  bipolar weight loss, cognitive problems, acne, tingling in fingers and tongue PROACTIVE HELPS THE ACNE F 36 2 years
7/21/2007
 4  Bipolar (severe) All over bumpy skin, started on legs and arms and spread to trunk. Peeling feet. Severe joint pain that started in my shoulders (bursitis) then spread to my knees, then elbows, wrists, ankles and fingers. Loved its effects, made me feel great (in combo with lithium) but took my p doctor a long time to realis that the rash I had been describing WAS related, as was the joint pain. As soon as he did though, he took me off the Lithium (100mg) cold turkey. F 34 9 weeks
7/4/2007
 3  bipoler ll severe memory loss: can't find ordinary words, remember what I've been told 30 seconds ago, remember what I did a few days ago. I mix up words, must read the same thing over and over. I've been taking Lamictal forabour 1 year. It has basically stabilized my mood....tho left me mostly feeling flat with some periods of great mood. No further severe depression episodes. No other side effects, except that it could be causing my extreme memory problems, including difficulty writing. F 50 1 years
6/26/2007
 3  Bi-Polar Prolonged Nausea and loss of appetite, fevers (come and go), and cycling depression during the course of a day I began taking the medication and at first it was really working well. After about 6 weeks on the medication (and a dose of 150 mg split up between morning and night), I'm having nausea and "hot flashes" of fever. Not sure if this is the right medication, though it did start off good. F 36 6 weeks
6/25/2007
 4  Bipolar Depression I was diagnosed with BPD over 4 years ago and started taking Lamictal. It worked because I no longer have severe depressive or manic episodes but the tradeoff is that I feel flat. I no longer experience passion for my work or recreational endeavors; rather, I feel like an automaton with a job to do. And I do it. Clearly I am reminiscing about just the tiniest fraction of my BPD being but I am not the person I once was. The charming, witty, energetic and likeable woman who once dominated my (hypo-) manic life has now disappeared. My wish is that we could titrate our medication doses so that we could live at the least destructive but most productive and creative levels of hypomania. F 50 4 years
5/29/2007
 3  Bipolar My vision is really bad, i got a really bad asthma, when the doctor upgraded up to 200. iT HELPS ME WITH THE BIPOLAR, BUT THE ASTHMA IS DRIVING ME CRAZY F 42 1 years
5/17/2007
 5  Bi polar disorder type 1 severe. None... I wondered, for awhile, if Lamictal was having any effect on my condition at all. I felt nothing. Not one side effect. I was anticipating all the regular stuff that goes along with starting a new mediation, that's one of the reasons I've wasted the last 7 years not getting treatment. I always felt like I had had a pharmaceutical lobotomy after treatment with a new drug. Lamictal wasn't one of "those". One morning I just woke up feeing like a human again. I love this drug. F 55 60 days
5/14/2007
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 4  epilespy/bipolor/light sensitivity sour taste in mouth, but has somewhat subsided. Weight gain, some confusion and some speech problems. It has helped I can not deny. 100mg a day F 50 60 days
5/7/2007
 4  Bipolar I have been on it since October 2005. At first I had severe memory loss and time confusion. That subsided. Now I only have problems with word mix-ups, like, "He is store to the going." It's a pain, but not terribly bad. I noticed that this got MUCH worse when I stopped drinking caffeinated coffee about one month ago. M 24 2 years
5/3/2007
 2  bipolar II memory loss, mixing up words, can't find words, anxiety 25mg did the trick for moods, side affect doesn't make it worthwhile. Currently going to try 50mg for a week and if side affects persist it will be time to move on. M 31 55 days
5/2/2007
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 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
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 5  Bipolar Disorder None. After 20 years of tackling recurrent depressions that would switch into hypomania or psychosis after being put on an antidepressant, this is finally the med I've been hoping was out there. I've tried other stabilizers, lithium, Valproate, Tegretol, but I couldn't stand the side effects and they just didn't seem to work. I hated the sense of emotional detachment from everything and everybody lithium gave me. Lamictal seems to give a very slight detachment, but in a helpful way. My moods aren't all over the map day to day and through the day. I finally feel stable, normal. I can deal with everyday living and not feel like I can't live in my own skin. This drug has been a life saver. M 43 1 years
4/23/2007
 3  Mood Disorder/Bipolar II/ Moderate to Severe Memory loss(overtime is getting worse, mix up words, can't find the words, trouble writing. All which is actually causing me anxiety. Who wouldn't freak out if they thought they were loosing their intelligence and memory. Hair Loss, night sweats, possible weight gain I have had good response for my main concern of mood stabilization. It have noticed if I forget to take a pill that I start to become irritable again by very trivial matters. I am also on Wellbutrin SR 300mg and Effexor (which I am being taken off of as its not working anymore). The wellbutrin helped with energy because I was a tired depressive person and the Lamictal made my moods stable. So I actually like the medicine just hate the Memory loss. I did notice that younger people had similiar side effects. F 24 10 months
4/20/2007
 3  Mood stabilizer Headache behind eyes, blurred vision, trouble finding words, vivid dreams, hair growth, some weight gain. I think it helps for some mood stabilization. But I was only taking 50 mg (split morning/evening) because I usually start really low on medications. But the side effects like the stumbling for words and blurred visionn bothered me, so I don't think I ever got enough of a dose to really tell if it would help for mood stabilization. Still, the side effects are less than some other medications! Adding Wellbutrin in seemed to help clear the "fog." F 44 45 days
4/15/2007
 2  bipolar spectrum It triggered mania and anxiety/panic attack, the very thing I am trying to be treated for. Be careful F 51 1 days
4/15/2007
 5  bipolar 1 none It's by far the best med I've ever taken! No side effects and it keeps me stable even when things go awry in life. I wouldn't trade it for any other med. F 47 5 years
4/13/2007
 4  Bipolar 1 No side effects so far. My moods do seem to be stabilizing, that is, cycling at much lower extremes. I'm happy with the medication so far. F 55 5 weeks
3/17/2007
 5  bipolar II none i've been on several other meds, this one works the best and had 0-none side effects. don't have trouble concentrating moods are stable and don't have as much depression as i did on other drugs. F 25 3 years
2/26/2007

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