Posted by Maximus on October 1, 2007, at 22:15:31
In reply to lamictal/self harm, posted by roxy27 on September 29, 2007, at 20:02:34
> I started taking Lamictal, and after a week on >25 mg I had a breakdown at work. I started >crying uncontrollably, beat my legs with my >fists, and even starting biting the skin on my >arms-drawing blood. I woke up the next day >crying as well. Is this heard of?
Lamictal is a kind of odd med. Lamictal is not entirely a real mood stabilizer. From their own website, "http://lnk.nu/lamictal.com/g3k.html", "LAMICTAL does not take away the initial feelings of depression or mania you may be experiencing. Instead, LAMICTAL can help keep mood episodes, especially depression, from coming back."
You see, Lamictal will help you to delay the time to occurrence of mood episodes. In fact, it will help keeping you well, not getting you well.
If you're not stabilized before the treatment, Lamictal may be rough to begin with. Go slowly. Agitation, anxiety and insomnia are frequent initial side effects of LTG.
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