Posted by Maxime on December 9, 2006, at 11:43:15
In reply to Re: Fair length of Lamictal trial? » Maxime, posted by theo on December 9, 2006, at 11:35:21
Most of the people I know who have responded to it, have to keep raising it. I think it can be a good mood stabiliser, but not sure about it as treatment for depression (for some people it works well).
Since you are on it, you could keep increasing it to see if you could find your therapeutic dose. It you don't get a response at 300 mg of say, then I would say ... taper. Sigh.
Sorry.
Maxime
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> I've tried Lamictal before and I wonder if there even is a "theraputic dose," meaning every time I increased the dose before, I felt better for a few days but later the lift was gone. I know people who have gone to 400mg trying to chase that initial good feeling, only to be let down with each dose increase.
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> I've been to 150mg before but started typing backwards and getting really stupid. I'm only trying 50mg, maybe go to 100mg but feel like I'm wasting my time. The only reason I'm trying it again is because before I was on other meds, so I didn't get a true read on Lamictal.
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