Posted by ash1982 on July 23, 2011, at 16:10:17
In reply to Re: Lamictal SJS rash - READ THIS!!!!!! » T_R_D, posted by BarbaraCat on May 6, 2004, at 15:43:20
I took Lamicatal 25 mg for a week after being prescribed it for bipolar disorder. previously i had taken every SSRI in the book being treated for depression. After quitting Prozac i went 6 weeks with no meds during which time i became very irritable and hostile towards my husband and anxious and depressed to where i was crying on and off all day at work. The first 2 on the lamictal days were incredible, i had energy and i could focus at work for the first time in a while and i felt like i was in a great mood for the first time in a while also. I noticed that I had headaches not severe but they felt different than regular headaches somehow. I also could not sleep i felt like i was half asleep and half awake all night and woke up alot, but my doc had anticipated that and prescribed me ambien which did the trick. I also suddenly had what seemed like a yeast infection. Then day 3 the anxiety started creeping in, the worst kind where you have air hunger. It just kept getting worse from there on, i started feeling like i was shaking inside, paranoid, and drowning. plus my toungue swelled and a whole bunch of bumps popped up toward the back of it and it made it harder to swallow and it looked white, my eyes got red and stayed that way and after 2 diflucan pills i still had the burning "yeast infection". At that point I was full blown panicking and i called my doc and said i thought i was allergic to it. I never had a rash, but still there is no way all of that was a coincidence. I quit taking it and the first day was horrible with alot of dizzy spells and forgetting what i was doing 20 seconds after starting to do it... blanking out and staring at the computer for minutes at a time like i had no idea what was going on. I never had a rash but what I experienced was enough to scare the crap out of me. its been a couple days and i can say i do feel much better, the anxiety has lessened and all the other allergic type reactions went away so I am glad I stopped it when I did!
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