Posted by n_wolfie on March 1, 2009, at 0:01:38
In reply to Re: Lamictal optimal dosage, posted by n_wolfie on February 23, 2009, at 20:57:49
Scott I think you are right. I keep forgetting what i've read and have to reread my posts. My short term memory is better, but not much, and I did have a rebound, pretty severe depression for about a week. Depression still bad, but better than the rebound. Still more depressed than I was when i was on the high dose lamictal, but cognitive function has marginally improved, except for my writing word retrieval skills, they've become much worse since i've reduced the lamictal. anhow i'll probably up the nardil dosage monday when i see my doctor, i'm hoping that fills in for the lamictal reduction.
> only by 100, my doctor doesn't want to change too much too quickly until the nardil has time to take full effect, and the Lamictal had worked better than any med I had ever taken, I processed things at the speed of light. My memory is bad right now, but I might remember the Nardil impairing it a year ago before it kicked in. Thing I don't understand is the the increased dosage of lamictal always improved my mental clarity in the past. Is there a window where it improves memory and after that point it hampers it? It's so hard because the Nardil takes 4 weeks, so I have to wait four weeks for every 15 mg increase. My doctor doesn't want to up it too fast because on 75 last time it made me too hyper, increased my mood reactivity, so we're trying to keep the dosage at the minimum level necessary. This is driving me nuts, it's taking me forever to even put a sentence together, they're long and awkward, and I have to think for 30 seconds about how to spell a word, and I typically write at the speed of light and am a spelling whiz. Even when I've been depressed I've still been able to write fluently, which is odd. This is what is scaring me the most. I've never had writing problems. Could this just be a temporary lamictal withdrawal symptom? Wait, this just happened today, with the writing problems. i ran out of trazadone last night and took 2 benadryl to fall asleep, could that have something to do with it? I've done that before and it's given me a horrible hangover, but I can't remember how long the hangover lasted.
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> > Try not to worry. You are going to need patience on this one. You have quite a way to go to reduce your dosage of Lamictal down to 200mg.
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> > You must expect that during these dosage-reduction induced depressive dips, you are going to manifest all of the symptoms of your depression, including depressive cognitive impairments. So now you got two things working against you: depressive cognitive impairments plus high dosage Lamictal cognitive side effects. Give yourself one or two days for your system to stabilize. You should find that your mood stabilizes and your head clears a little - but not a lot. You're still taking a lot of Lamictal.
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> > How much did you decrease the dosage of Lamictal by?
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> > - Scott
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