Posted by Ponder on April 23, 2002, at 14:02:40
In reply to Re: Sinking on Lamictal dosage increase » Ponder, posted by jaime on April 23, 2002, at 11:31:40
> Thanks Ponder. Seems like Lamictal has been a *godsend* for many other posters as well. I guess it's just hard to wait (especially with Lamictal due to the slowwww dosage increase), at the same time sinking back into a worse depression. After trying so many other meds with no success, and not knowing if this one will work either. But I'm going to stick it out. My temporary solution (after talking with my pdoc): Add Li low dose back on until I reach *therapuetic* level of Lamictal. Hopefully that will provide some stability. But I'm not sure how we will determine what the *therapeutic* level is. My pdoc said *you will just know.* Hummm.Oh, those pdocs! Shooting from the hip and in the dark. ;-) I'm sure you've seen from the posts on this board how variable the "therapeutic" dosages are from one person to another. 150 is clearly the best for me. When I reached it, I wanted to go higher just to see if there was any further benefit. Nope. 125 is no good, 175 is no good. 150 is great. I sure hope Lamictal will do its magic for you.
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