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Posted by Shame on February 3, 2006, at 11:14:18
Anyone else on Lamictal find themselves breaking into tears when faced with emotional stress? Overall the Lamictal has made me a great deal better, but occasionally something will happen, and I end up sobbing like a 30 year old baby. Then I have to hide and hope no one finds me until its finished. I spent 3 hours crying a few mornings ago TERRIFIED that my 2 year old neice might end up BPII when she grows up.
Posted by babydancer62 on February 5, 2006, at 10:36:30
In reply to Crying spells on Lamictal?, posted by Shame on February 3, 2006, at 11:14:18
Hi I'm sorry to hear of your pain. I had the opposite happen. I am taking 100 mg of Lamictal for the lows of my disease, Bipolar, and it helps immensely. I know this because I went off of it when I was trying to get pregnant - what a mistake. I am, however, taking other meds to help keep a balance, 10 mg of Zyprexa (which has made me gain a horrible amount of weight so I'm working with my PDOC on switching or adding an 'antidote - that's a whole other subject) 50 mg of Zoloft, and .5 - 2 mg of Rivotril (Clonazepam).
You didn't say what you were taking the Lamictal for. It's a mood-stabilizer as you likely know. Do you perhaps need to augment it with another med?
Posted by Shame on February 7, 2006, at 11:28:22
In reply to Re: Crying spells on Lamictal?, posted by babydancer62 on February 5, 2006, at 10:36:30
I'm taking it for BPII. It has helped a great deal. The crying spells seem to be an inappropriate reaction to whatever is stressing me at the moment. For example I recently got upset because the drive-through at a burger joint screwed up my order. Instead of getting mildly 'miffed', I pull over and burst into tears. What’s THAT about? It's BBQ sauce, not a funeral. Sometimes it's genuinely upsetting stuff, sometimes it stuff I seem to manufacture by thinking about things too much, and other times it's just crazy stuff like the drive-through.I'm going in this week for a meds check, so I will see how it shakes out.
Posted by James K on February 8, 2006, at 3:09:19
In reply to Re: Crying spells on Lamictal?, posted by Shame on February 7, 2006, at 11:28:22
I just noticed this thread several days later. I'm on lamictal 100, and have been on 200 in the past. Anyway, after stopping all meds and earlier last year, then going back into treatment, I went back on lamictal and worked up to 100. I've cried more in this time period than in my whole life. Some say crying is good. I've cried twice today. A few times in the last few months, I have sobbed and all that. I don't consider this improvement, but I've been suicidal with nothing more than maybe a little teary eye in the past, so what do I know. Is crying a sign of deep depression like I always thought, or is it a side effect of this med. I can't go back to work in this state. Am I more in touch with my feelings, and need to go with it, or is this med messing with me? anymore perspective on this would be so welcome to me and probably s.ame as well.
James k
Posted by Maxime on February 8, 2006, at 20:35:48
In reply to Crying spells on Lamictal?, posted by Shame on February 3, 2006, at 11:14:18
Lamictal made my depression much worse. I was so disappointed because I had heard such great things about it and you have to titrate it so slowly (run on sentence).
Maxime
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