Posted by fido on March 3, 2015, at 21:08:25
In reply to Re: Lithium or lamictal in unipolar depression?, posted by baseball55 on March 2, 2015, at 21:22:07
Thanks for your replies.
I am also definitely leaning towards lamictal. Lithium is too intimidating. I also have hashimoto and I dont want to mess with my thyroid.How much lamictal would you need minimum in order to get an effect? And how hard is it to tell wether it does something?
The problem is that I dont feel equally depressed all the time. It depends very much on the situation. I may have days or weeks where I feel 5/10 and then I have days where I feel 1/10. This makes it much harder to even tell if a drug works or not cause how shall I know if I would have felt the same way without a drug? Basically I can only tell that a drug doesn't work when I experience really bad days cause then I know that it doesn't seem to work.
And can you start really low by splitting tablets? That would be important for me. I always start really low when I go on a new drug.And would you say that lamictal is worth going on even without having a working antidepressant in the first place? At the moment I basically have nothing. I quit cymbalta cause it didn't work and now I don't really know what to try next. If lamictal worked and didn't have side effects then I could get it on board and then keep looking for an antidepressants.
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