Posted by yxibow on May 28, 2009, at 6:22:31
In reply to Re: Generic Lamictal - lamotrigine » yxibow, posted by SLS on May 28, 2009, at 5:28:33
> > I know your medication combination is probably as complicated as mine -- but I have seen no difference with generic Lamictal (Teva). Of course, whether it is doing anything important at one point or another is another story.
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> If it is not helping at all, then it would not really matter whether or not the Teva brand were inferior to the GSK brand. You would feel no worse for switching to placebo.Oh it's unclear whether it adds something to the mix -- I think my doctor feels that Lamictal alone is an a antidepressant and that it may add some suppression of suicidal thoughts.
> Mine is that one should enter treatment with the goal of taking as few medications at the lowest effective dosages as is possible.Agreed...
> At the moment, I have tested all of the four drugs I am taking by attempting to reduce the dosage and/or discontinuing it. After I relapsed, I titrated the dosages again in order to establish the minimum dosage that produces maximal effect. It turned out that each drug contributes to the improvement I glean from the treatment regime.
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> Currently:
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> Parnate 80mg
> nortriptyline 150mg
> lamotrigine 200mg
> Abilify 20mg
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> Compared to some people here, this is relatively few drugs to treat a depression so severe and recalcitrant.
Yep, considering I'm on 6 medications, although one is not psychiatric, Skelaxin (not really sure if it is doing anything but after being on Robaxin for some time, it seemed to produce an odd heat sensation with serotonergic agents that was uncomfortable).
Of course, the only thing that really melts all my dystonic syndromes is Soma (Robaxin is the poor cousin and probably did a little bit), but I cant get that prescribed... (too many CNS depressants)
> > Namenda was horrible for me at 20mg,
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> Gosh. That doesn't so sound good.
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> In what ways did Namenda affect you?
Oh well we tried it for memory loss from the catch-22 of medications I'm on, mostly the Valium -- by the time it reached 20mg, things were just "WRONG" -- its hard to explain, my visual perception of people walking (ugh and cars), is skewed for some reason to be confusing or in the case of cars, faster than normal.
And well -- people were ... oh it was just not good. Dropped the memantine and things went back to their ... well... bett-er state.Deplin did something else weird I can't recall at the moment.... not completely innocuous stuff.
But then I have odd reactions to medications sometimes -- sensitive to a select some, metabolize others for dinner... perhaps my weight, who knows there.
-- Jay
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