Posted by ClearSkies on January 6, 2007, at 8:08:46
In reply to Re: Lamictal irritability » ClearSkies, posted by chiron on January 5, 2007, at 7:37:53
> ClearSkies,
> How long have you been on the Lamictal? I'm asking because I have only been on it a couple of weeks (alternating days of 25mg) and am having slight tension headaches & irritability. I'm wondering if either will go away, especially the irritability.
> thx, chironI started Lamictal in September of 2005 (holy cow - I didn't realize it had been so long). Every increase in dosage, from the very start, produced awful headaches. They didn't respond to any over the counter pain relievers except for tylenol with codeine (otc in my motherland).
The Lamictal itself helped greatly with my anxiety, or so I thought. Now I'm thinking that it was resolved through therapy and yoga. Who knows? But the medication became problematic when the dosage was last increased to 400mg. Threw me right into a rapid cycling hypomanic state. It has taken me 2 months to get my pdoc to acknowledge my symptoms and decide to taper me back off. You might be happy to know that it's a much shorter process than ramping up was! One week at each progressively lower dosage.
ClearSkies
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