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Posted by wishingstar on December 29, 2006, at 18:53:04
Just a brief update for those who remember me questioning my lamictal a few weeks ago. I took 25mg for 2 weeks, 50mg for a week, and then one more week at 25 to get off of it. I was feeling much more depressed and suicidal than I had in the weeks before starting it.
I have been off lamictal about a week now and what a difference! It was absolutely the drug causing me to feel worse. I'm still unhappy and struggling, but I feel much, much better than I did 2 weeks ago. I also stopped taking the lithium a few days ago (300mg) just as a test - I have felt more irritable and agitated since I began taking it - and I feel better than I have in quite awhile. I see my doctor Jan 4 and I will tell him this. I initially thought the lithium was helping, but now I just dont think these mood stabalizers are for me.
Thank you everyone for encouraging me to talk to my doctor about that. It's scary when drugs have the opposite effect of what is intended.
Posted by ClearSkies on December 29, 2006, at 19:50:24
In reply to update - bad lamictal experience, posted by wishingstar on December 29, 2006, at 18:53:04
I have been on Lamictal for a long time and I don't think I had my problems until I began taking the higher dosage of 400mg/day.
I posted on the Withdrawal board with some questions about side effects of reducing Lamictal dosage. Any thoughts here on it?
Here is a link to the thread over there
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/wdrawl/20061224/msgs/716604.htmlClearSkies
Posted by wishingstar on December 29, 2006, at 20:12:39
In reply to Re: update - bad lamictal experience » wishingstar, posted by ClearSkies on December 29, 2006, at 19:50:24
I had no effects from going to 50mg to 25mg to 0, but since I was on such a small dose and for such a short amount of time, I doubt that means much for others. Good luck.
Posted by Phillipa on December 29, 2006, at 22:25:37
In reply to Re: update - bad lamictal experience » wishingstar, posted by ClearSkies on December 29, 2006, at 19:50:24
At first I thought I was doing okay on the first 25mg of lamictal when I got to 50mg I had the uncommon side effect of excess salivation intolerable as constant spitting. What I didn't notice til after stopping it was I had been getting very angry and actually banged and threw a plastic bottle on the grocery store post while yelling at my husband. So another one hit the tubes. Love phillipa
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