Posted by HenryO on July 28, 2003, at 4:22:38
In reply to Lamictal Rash? question, posted by katia on July 27, 2003, at 16:36:44
Lamictal has been the best by far of any med I've ever taken. Works as advertised, no side effects.
Those photos are awful but you take a small amount of Lamictal and build up slowly watching for any signs of trouble. I did not see anything that claimed Lamictal caused those particular rashes. I have never heard of it never going away either. Your doctor is being overly cautious. I have seen one person on this whole site claim they got a skin reaction and they quit the med, no problems.
The whole thing with Lamictal was that when it was first prescribed for epilepsy years ago they just jumped right in at 200-400mg. If a person was sensitive to it they got broadsided.
Try it. After it gets up to 150-250 it works very well. You just start small and move up slow any problems quit taking it.
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