Posted by rod on April 10, 2004, at 6:45:48
In reply to Re: Higher doses of lamictal?, posted by SLS on April 4, 2004, at 19:56:51
> I really don't profit from Lamictal until I reach a dosage of 300mg per day.
Dear Scott,
May I sak you some questions about Lamictal?
How did you tolerate Lamictal at the beginning, when you where titrating up? Any problems, side effexts?
I am asking, becasause I am not sure what to do with my 200mg Lamictal. Its not noticeable working very well, but when I try to decrese the dose I feel increased depression, and lightheadness etc. This might go into the direction of seizure like things. Maybe this wil all wear off after some time, because I never did decrease my dosage from 200 to 150 any longer than 2 days.
And Maybe you had similar start-up effexts like me.
When I first started Lamictal it worked wonderful on 50mg the first week (decreased anxiety, eleminated restlessness, etc.). But then I experienced confusion, severe back/neck pain, headache, clumsiness, muscle weakness, hearing your phone winging and you name shout, without it really happen (I thing this was a weak paradox seizure aggravating reaction), sometimes my arms, hands, leg, feet felt totally numb. Touching them felt like touching eg. the arm from someone else.
But all this side effects went away after some weeks and dont have any of them anymore. Did you have had similar reactions?
How would you describe the effect of Lamictal at 300mg? Is it activating, stimulating (in a pleasant way), motivating? Can you say its targeting the core of your depression?many thanks
Roland
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