Posted by Lonely on January 7, 2005, at 20:07:24
In reply to Re: Lamictal - Trileptal » Lonely, posted by emme on January 6, 2005, at 22:47:41
A big "oops" here and thankful you corrected me on this
<-------- (she says with red face).I misread the box in my anxious and exhausted state. What it really says is that those other drugs such as carbamazepine should NOT be taken with Lamictal! I misread it and thought those were ingredients in the pill. So, I feel a bit better about all of that and glad my mistake was caught before I yelled at a doctor!!!!
The p-doc gave my hubby a free sample package that sort've quadruple -folds and is about the size of a video tape box - or at least it seems like it to me. Also, the positioning of the text on the cover in regard to what NOT to take should be handled a little differently - it just wasn't clear - I would do it differently.
In reading doctor-to-doctor message boards on Dr. Bob's site, I noticed that one doc had patients start at 12.5 mgs for several days before going to 25. That's what I'm doing w/my hubby in hopes of minimizing side effects. Quite likely he will do better on a lower dose overall anyway.
> > What blew me away was when I noticed that it has phenobarbital in it!!!
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> Lamictal is a drug in and of itself. It's not a mixture of other drugs and so doesn't contain other drugs. The prescribing information for Lamictal states specifically that it is chemically unrelated to other anti-epileptic drugs.
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> > Also, I thought carbamazepine (which is also in Lamictal) requires frequent blood tests.
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> Lamictal, phenobarbital, and carbamazepine are all antiepileptic drugs, but all three are in different subclasses. Lamictal does not require blood tests.
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