Posted by Vincent_QC on June 12, 2013, at 17:40:20
In reply to Re: New PDoc RX Lamictal for severe anxiety..., posted by polarbear206 on June 12, 2013, at 16:44:47
> I think you have a very smart doctor and kudos to him for doing a thorough evaluation. Every initial visit should be like this for anyone who has psychiatric issues. Lamictal is a great drug used in combination with an AD. It was a life savor for me. AD monotherapy exacerbated my anxiety. The thing that only helped to make my AD work they way it shold was adding Lamictal.
Hey thanks for your positive input ;-) You are right, that PDoc is the best I see so far, very helpful, very smart, gentle, human...totally different from the previous one who did nothing for me and only keep saying that I was a passive-agressive patient and that all my symptoms was all in my head and not real (Intestinal pain who last 10 months, lost 60 pounds in 4 months, that bad PDoc never help me, always said it was all in my head, somatic anxiety, no real symptoms, fake to seek some attention from the others)... and I ending with 2 intestinal obstructions, 2 major surgeries, Advanced malnutrition state, 4 months of enteral feeding by a jejunostomy feeding tube connected into my small intestine... I almost die...
Anyway, what is your diagnosis? Do you have some super sensitivities to AD's like me or you can take them at the starting dose without increase of your anxiety?
What antidepressant are you taking? (SSRI like Lexapro?)...
I never had a great sucess with AD as monotherapy for the panic disorder and phobias with the exception of the Paxil... the main problem is that now my anxiety is so high that I react to 1 mg of Paxil and it's not psychological side-effects, they are real... I wait too long before starting it again when I was hit by the severe anxiety back in 2010...I Wonder if starting with the Lamictal first and see if I can tolerate it and then add the Paxil will help me more?
How many time it take for the Lamictal to work on you? What is your dose?
What kind of side-effects did you have with it?
Thanks again ;-)
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