Posted by SLS on May 30, 2006, at 10:37:21
In reply to Lamictal and thinking, posted by detroitpistons on May 30, 2006, at 10:20:21
I echo your experience. Lamictal 300mg made me very stupid and greatly impaired my memory. I found that these cognitive side effects are greatly reduced at lower dosages. I am currently taking 150mg. I think that some people get trapped into taking higher dosages of Lamictal, as it seems necessary to keep raising the dosage in order to produce a persistent improvement. Ultimately, the degree of improvement plateaus, even at the higher dosages. Then, when one tries to reduce the dosage, a rebound depression appears, convincing them that the higher dosage is necessary. I found that this rebound depression dissipated within a few days and that I felt just as well on 100mg as I did on 300mg.
- Scott> I'm on Lamictal 300 mg, and it seems like my brain is not functioning very well. My memory is horrid, and I get confused and can't figure out simple things. I guy asked me simple directions last week and it took me a minute to figure it out. I had taken the same route for the entire week before that. This is something that I would normally have blurted out in a second.
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> I was put on Lamictal because I was hypomanic even though Lamictal doesn't have very good antimanic properties.
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> I've been put on Adderall XR and I'm at 10 mg right now and I'm going to have to go up because this dosage isn't doing the trick. Even before the Lamictal I had attention problems though, so it's not that I'm taking the Adderall just because of this Lamictal side effect. The Lamictal has just made the situation worse.
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