Posted by baseball55 on August 21, 2017, at 18:28:53
In reply to Re: Lithium and lamictal, posted by Markwell on August 20, 2017, at 18:15:47
> So what takes care of the depression? Having said what you said...do you recommend lamictal?
> MarkI take parnate. I'm not sure about lamictal. There's no question I'm more stable, but that may be due to parnate or therapy or just getting better, My doc is a big advocate and, for me, it has no side effects whatsoever, so I stay on it
As someone said, takes a while to work. Due to (rare but serious) possibility of Johnson-Stevens syndrome, it is usually ramped up very slowly to reach the typical dose of 200mg/day.
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