Posted by mellow on August 30, 2011, at 18:03:29
In reply to Lamictal=heavy sleep?, posted by Christ_empowered on August 29, 2011, at 20:35:24
I have problems with sleeping way too much. I have always been a sleepy head. It was worse when I had untreated sleep apnea. It is probably worse in the last 5 years since being heavily medicated. It seems to be way worse when I'm a little depressed, but I don't know if it is necessarily related to Lamictal. I'm on 150mg at breakfast. I think it probably has more to do with my antipsychotic. Until last week I was on 2mg risperdal. Just tapered down to 1.5 about 5 days ago.
Anyhow CE it may just be a combo of your Lamictal and Abilify. Are you still taking 30 Abilify? Plus you take healthy doses of Niacin if I recall. If that is in the afternoon or at bed that may play into it a little as well.
Both of you keep me posted on your progress. I'm kind of a Lamictal cheerleader on Babble despite people trashing it. It saved my life. My goal is monotherapy hopefully. We can all dream right?
peace
Bipolar II
Lamictal 150, Topamax 50, Risperdal 2, Cal/Mag, D3 1000, Fish Oil 2400, High Potency Multi"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
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