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Q: What are some of the side effects of the medicine Lamotrigine for people who have Bi Polar Dissorder?
Not me~ Just wondering
Do you get sleeppiness?
A: Lamictal can cause sleepiness, blured or double vision, a movement disorder called ataxia is a small number of people who take it. I have heard some talk about lamictal causing hair loss, but I am not sure about that. The major thing you have to worry about is rashes. Not just simple rashes, rashes that can spread quickly to your whole body and cause something called Stevens-Johnson syndrome which results in your skin peeling off your body. You can’t live without skin and many deaths have been caused by this reaction. When you first start taking the drug they give you a very small dose and slowly build up your dose over time to prevent this from happening. If anyone taking lamictal starts to get a rash they need to go to the hospital immediately
because this rash can spread and kill you in only a couple days.
I have been on this drug for years and I never had any side effects as far as I can tell.
Q: I have been prescribed lamotrigine for bi polar type 2?
I was wondering is it better taking this med at night or in the morning as I am worried that I wont be able to sleep(i have heard from some that it can cause insomnia)anyone have any experience with this ,does anyone have trouble sleeping while on this med ,did it help your moods Ect ??Please help I am very confused about taking this medicine Please descibe your experience withthis medicine
A: I believe I took it in the morning and had no ill effect
Q: (lamotrigine?)i am 6 weeks building up to my dose of lamotrigine? will i ever stop feeling sleepy?
this is a new medicine for me. it is taking place of dilantin for seizures, but it makes me so sleepy. will that stop soon, im 6 weeks in to taking this till i get up to 200mg twice a day.
A: yes it will. i am on 500mg and i am normal as far as grogginess goes.
your body will get used to it. if it doesnt, and you cant take it, tell your doctor you would like to try something else.
but its a good drug, ten times better than a lot of other mood stablizers as far as side effects go.
Q: aaargh i feel like i am not getting any where, my psychiatrist changed me from lamotrigine to ariprizole?
i am 33 years old, feel suicidal got the rash from lamotrigine, i have ptsd and depersonalisation
putting on lots of weight
so i talked to the locum psychiatrist and he dosent really know me
so i have now got yet another medicine,
i live in england, and all the help i seem to get is medicines and more medicines i am soooo fed up
is it possible to be fixed from ptsd or is this me for ever i feel nothing for my husband family or friends, thankfully i do not have children
what else is there for me now
just go to work and go to bed, i hate weekends, cry all the time have no need to get up,
i am literally just living in the days to kill time then go to bed to wake up for another day
i know you will say exercise and get on with it but i have got absolutely no inclination, i cant do it i have tried and tried and tried, it has been 5 years now
i am not interested in any thing, just fed up to living like this
it is not possible for me to do anything
i do try and my poor husband has been the one putting up with me like this, but i cant go on like this i have had enough
sorry if this just ranting and raving but i needed to get it written down
xxx vici
A: I had more problems with Depersonalization on Lamotrigine and Abilify (ariprizole) was wonderful!! It was the best thign I ever took for the depression and it reduced the depersonalization a lot. I know how you feel though….. They have added Lithium to my meds because I can’t take the Lamotrigine…… seems never ending….. Give the Abilify a chance.
Q: Plz help me taper off my psy meds?
Hello !
I am taking some psychiatric medicines ( Oxcarbazepine, Lamotrigine, Bupropion, Clonazepam ) for Schizo-Affective and Bipolar Disorder since last 4 years. Now I want to get rid of those. I have talked with my doctor regarding this but he wants me to remain on them which I dont want to. Can somebody plz help me how taper off these medications, which one to taper first and so on.
Thanks.
A: Hi Shivani, You’ve heard of people who have stopped taking their medication and have had terribly tragic results. You seem to have quite a few serious diagnoses and you would be seriously jeopardizing you mental health if you tried this on your own. Your doctor is trying to avoid the worse scenario for you in asking you to stay on them. Although the combination of medicine you’re on is probably giving you terrible side affects, right? You don’t have to stay with the same doctor. There are Orthomolecular psychiatrists you can try. The one I highly believe in is Neurofeedback for psychiatric disorders. My friend said she could never feel the way she did even if she tried–she was suicidal. Now she takes no meds as a result of the neurofeedback. You have to find a provider that has experience with what you have and make sure they are certified with www.BCIA.org or eegspectrum. Also there are Naturopaths that specialize in Mental health. You would have to replace the psychotropic drugs with other things that work for you. Don’t do it on your own becuase you will regret it and unless there happens to be a specialist in pharmacology or equivalent who reads this, regular lay people cannot tell you how to get off them. Do some serious research. Remember how you were before you went on them, it’ll be worse for you if you stop on your own. It could probably be done with the right professional(s) at your side. God Bless You. Check out these sites.
Q: Questions Lamictal/Lamotrigine in general?
INFORMATION: I was recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder and my psychiatrist had put me on lamictal. I all ready have horrible insomnia and hardly eat as much as it is. i eat one meal a day and stay up for days on end. I just started the medication at 25 Mg’s a day.
The medicine keeps me up and im unable to fall asleep.
I have no appetite but still maintain my meal a day a maybe a snack a night. i know that it takes a few weeks to work but is not suggested to be used alone i guess?
my questions are is this one of the best medicines to treat bipolar disorder? anything i should know about it?
Thanks a million
A: Yes Lamictal is second only to Lithium in treating bipolar and it works better on the depressive part while Lithium works better on the manic part……. Really the side effect profile is low… you can look it up on crazymeds.us. At a bare 25mg it is really unlikely that it would keep yo up…. sounds like you were having trouble sleeping before….. Ask your doctor for a something for sleep. Seroquel works very well for that. It will be months before you feel the full effects of the Lamictal but don’t try to increase the dose faster than your doctor says or you run the risk of having an allergic reaction…….
Q: Can Lamotrigine for Bipolar Disorder cause hypomania?
So I’m Bipolar and was recently in a mixed affective episode and I hated it, so I finally asked my doctor for medication. I had taken this same medication before for about 2 months, but it was kind of expensive and I didn’t notice a big difference, so I decide I didn’t need it. I’ve been taking it again for 3 weeks now, and I have switched to a hypomania episode about a week ago, is the medicine causing this? If it is why didn’t it do this the last time I took it? What should I do about this?
A: Lamotrigine takes forever to get up to a therapeutic dose because you have to titrate it so slowly so it is unlikely that it is causing hypomania because it is technically a “mood stabilizer” anti depressants are notorious for causing mania but not the mood stabilizers….. Maybe you are just having a normal cycle…. maybe it’s beginning to sort out the mixed state and the first thing it did was get rid of the depression and left the hypomania….. Who knows. Stick with it.. it’s generic now so it should be pretty cheap comparatively. If the hypomanai persistes maybe they can add a low dose of anti psychotics… just keep your psychiatrist informed.
Q: why did i hear voices and it stopped?
when i was younger around 16 i started hearing voices, Im 26 now. It was very bad i wanted to bash my head in. Majority of the time it was my own thoughts repeating over and over. i tried to get some help. The doctor gave me zoloft. I only took the medicine for a couple months that i can remember not very long. eventually it stopped. Then it came back years later same thing. then again a couple years again. Im afraid it will come back. I felt like i was going crazy. I also have anxiety problems and i hate being around people I don’t know. sometimes i hate being around people i know. I feel as im not acting myself but i cant control it. I was on Fluoxetine a couple months ago it wasn’t working it was making a lot of things worse so my doctor switched my medicine to lamotrigine ive been on it for about 2 months and its not helping i don’t think. I feel worse i even cut myself again. Can anyone please help me with my questions? I feel as the doctors are miss dosing me. Im also going to counseling.
A: Sometimes, the very thing you are taking to fix your problem – your medication – can have a side effect of making you feel WORSE – like hurting yourself. This isn’t the doctor’s fault (and most certainly not yours), but the doctor is exactly who you should talk to about what you are experiencing, so that perhaps another medication could be tried. It is rough to get stabilized and figure it all out, and sometimes people need extra help and supervision until their medications are all figured out. I’m glad you are going to counseling – your medical condition is exactly that, a medical condition that unfortunately affects your moods and thoughts and feelings, and while that is unsettling, it is nothing to be ashamed about, so keep up the hard work trusting that your health care providers want to do right by you. It will take trust to make decisions that go against your feelings and thoughts and put yourself in their hands. Open communication is the key back to health at some point. Sorry it is not happening as quickly as you would like – sometimes that does happen, because every individual is unique, so it takes some work and time to figure out what is best for YOU. Good luck to you – you’ll be in my thoughts!
Q: Anybody here been having these symptoms. I need help. 
Alright, So I’m on quite a few medicines:
Lamotrigine 25mg
Lexipro 10 mg
And Hydroxyzine 50 mg.
Over the summer, I’ve been beginning to have very vivid, talking hallucinations and violent twitches. I have been medicated for the hallucinations, although it is not helping all that much.
The thing thats seriously starting to get to me is the twitch. It just comes up on me, and I twitch my head, tighten my arms, and close my eyes. No matter how hard I try, I can’t stop either of these things.
I know these medicines are not recommended for kids, but I need them to function. I am 13.
Help?
A: Its Akathesia. you can get it from any antipsychotic (schizophrenia, bipolar, psychosis meds) although some are more likely to cause it than others. I got it while taking quetiapine, in my legs, i couldnt sleep they kept moving, it was the most annoying thing ever. Maybe switch your meds, or alter your dosage? see your doc s/he should be able to help
hope i helped
Q: Prescription drugs in Vietnam?
I am going to Vietnam for a year, and was wondering wheter the following medicines are available there:
Bupropion (Welbutrin)
Lamotrigine
Can anybody help?
A: Yes. Visit either of the following to obtain local prescriptions for those drugs and directions on where to get those prescriptions filled:
OSCAT/AEA International Clinic
65 Nguyen Du, District 1
HCMC
Tel: 848 829-8520
Fax: 848 829-8551
Columbia-Gia Dinh International Clinic
01 No Trang Long, Binh Thanh District
HCMC
Tel: (848) 803-0678.
Q: i am 33 and in a living hell with medicines making me suicidal can you offer any advice?
Aaargh i feel like i am not getting any where, my psychiatrist changed me from lamotrigine to ariprizole?
i am 33 years old, feel suicidal got the rash from lamotrigine, i have ptsd and depersonalisation
putting on lots of weight
so i talked to the locum psychiatrist and he dosent really know me
so i have now got yet another medicine,
i live in england, and all the help i seem to get is medicines and more medicines i am soooo fed up
is it possible to be fixed from ptsd or is this me for ever i feel nothing for my husband family or friends, thankfully i do not have children
what else is there for me now
just go to work and go to bed, i hate weekends, cry all the time have no need to get up,
i am literally just living in the days to kill time then go to bed to wake up for another day
i know you will say exercise and get on with it but i have got absolutely no inclination, i cant do it i have tried and tried and tried, it has been 5 years now
i am not interested in any thing, just fed up to living like this
it is not possible for me to do anything
i do try and my poor husband has been the one putting up with me like this, but i cant go on like this i have had enough
sorry if this just ranting and raving but i needed to get it written down
xxx vici
A: Try being awesome. It works, thats what i do. True story.
Q: Bipolar..Should I go to a psychiatric hospital?
Hello, I would really appreciate it if someone could help me decide what is best for me to do…I’m so confused and unsure.
I’ve been diagnosed with Bipolar II, and I’ve been seeing a psychologist for the past several months. She’s helped me tremendously in terms of figuring out my symptoms and helping me learn relaxation techniques. (I am a 21 yr old female by the way)
My symptoms are as follows:
Extreme depression and during some episodes, suicidal thoughts and actions.
Being completely detatched, to the point where i can hardly comprehend people and have a hard time responding. my mind wanders and i feel like i’m in the clouds all the time.
EXTREME mood swings, so often and my medicine doesn’t seem to be helping with this particular symptom. It’s so bad that I literally have lost all of my friends, and alot of my family has turned their backs on me, including my father and siblings.
Feelings of superiority and feeling like I should not bow down to anyone/I am better than just about everyone.
Grusome dreams and recurring thoughts of death and murder of family members/myself/people I know.
Rages of anger where I do stupid things like throw myself down the stairs to make it clear that I am the one in control while arguing with someone.
I’m either completely emotionless or cannot stop sobbing.
I have alot ALOT of anxiety, and i’ve had panic attacks in the past.
I am on lamictal (lamotrigine) and I’m not sure exactley how much it is helping me…but it’s basically my only option right now because I can’t see a psychiatrist due to financial reasons.
I am planning on leaving the country to go stay with my grandparents for a while so I can try and settle down and calm myself (in addition to all these mental issues, i had a stroke last year which i recovered from after a few months, and i cannot decide what career path i want to take because i am so damn indecisive, which is driving me absolutely insane).
What do I do?? Thank you in advance for your help…I really feel alone right now..
A: A stroke can cause depression, especially if you have a pre-existing mood disorder like Bipolar II.
Yes, I do think you should go to a psychiatric hospital. You are doing some destructive things and are a potential harm to yourself. It sounds to me like you may be in a mixed episode. More people commit suicide during a mixed episode than during a depressed episode. I myself can testify that a mixed episode feels worse than a depressed episode. It’s just awful! For one thing, it is very unpredictable. That is why I think you need to be in a safe environment.
Lamictal has worked pretty well for me, but it took a while before I got the right dosage. I’m now on 400mg. (200 in the morning, 200 at night). Maybe you just need your dose slowly increased, or some other meds added. I’m on 4 different medications for my Bipolar disorder, and this is very common for Bipolar people to be on more than 1 med.
I’ve been in a psychiatric hospital before and it’s not nearly as bad as some people think. I’m glad I went there. They really helped me. I recommend it for you.
Q: PLEASE READ NEED INPUT ON BI POLAR MEDICATIONS!!!!!?
okay so I have been taking bi polar meds for about a week ,I started on lamotrigine 25 mg then they started me on geodon 40 mg at night and 20 in the morning.I have been having so so much trouble relaxing i feel edgey all the time like my mind just cannot settle down ,i really dont feel bad I just have all this extra energy and sleep is hard to come by even with medicine to sleep it is nt a peace full rested sleep ,I Wake up and it is as if i have been startled ,my heart is beating fast and my mind starts racing as soon as I open my eyes ,I have to be busy non stop all day I cannot just relax and watch some tv if i do it is forced any one experience this starting out on bi polar meds ??Any input will be greatly appreciated .I am so frustrated with feeling like a crack head all the time will this go away with treatment???I mean of course I was having trouble sleeping and having racing thoughts lack of concentration when I started as I was starting witha depressed period ,since i started htese my mood is better but i just have these other problems
A: First, the medicines won’t start working or at least a month. Second, a psychiatrist is the biggest drug dealer around. Third, you probably just have anxiety and don’t need these medicines. Doctors love to find things wrong with patients to keep you coming back and to milk your insurance company. I was on similar medications for what they were saying was bipolar. As I was a college psychology student at the time, I eventually wised up and realized there wasn’t anything wrong with me. These medicines can actually force you into being manic and anxious if you originally did not have an imbalance in the first place which is precisely what happened to me. My advice is to just find some stress relieving activities. Also, a proper diet and exercise will help tremendously when dealing with stress and insomnia. Find ways to help yourself. Personally, I’d only consult a therapist or psychiatrist if you are suicidal or your behavior is getting you into legal trouble. Also, make sure you consult with your doctor before making any changes to a medicine regimen.
Q: What happens when you quit taking Meds for Bi-Polar and high BP?
My husband was prescribed lamotrigine and Risperidone for Bi-Polar which is a secondary condition due to PTSD. He was also taking high BP meds in addition to medication for high cholesterol. He decided three weeks ago that he didn’t need medicine any longer and quit taking everything over night. Now he complains of pains in his chest that feel like needles and also having problems eating without a lot of discomfort and nausea. He became so nauseated at times, he even quit smoking because it was making him sick. I don’t think you are suppose to quit taking those types of medication like that. What kind of effects can this have on him? And what are those needle pains in his chest that last for minutes at a time
A: You should never quit medication cold turkey over night. It is very bad for you( I know this because I did the same thing and almost died). He is most likely experiencing witdrawl symptoms from stopping the medication. But on the safe side,Go to the doctors or the hospital immediately if the problem continues or worsens.
Q: Could I have Borderline personality disorder? Help me please!?
My phychiatrist diagnose me with Bipolar Disorder about 6 months ago!
I’m 19 yrs old!
Someone just told that I could have Borderline personality disorder…Help?
From time to time I have a very bad attitude towards anybody…for no reason!
Sometimes I could be furious and sometimes very happy!!!
From time to time I wana go out and be out late till 2-3 am and then the next day I want to be at home all the time and i also dont want ot see anyone!
I use to text alot before and now i have 29 mesagges on my phone and i dont bother to open them because i dont want to talk to anyone!
Sometimes my mom ask me something and i get really mad and say SHUT THE **** UP GO AWAY!!! and i dont mean to it just happens and is my mom i shouldnt be talking to her like that!!!
I sometimes get so mad that I hit people and trow stuff on the floor…than i go lay down and when i get up I dont remeber anything i’ve done!
I sometimes hate people for no reason…just by looking at them I say to myself i dont like them!
I dont get along with alot of people…So i dont have many friends and I dont care like it doesnt seem to affect me!
And im currently having alot of nightmares at night and idk what to do anymore!
I can not get my moods stabalize and i cant focus on school!
I HAVE BEEN FEELING LIKE THIS SINCE I CAN REMEMBER! Whe the doctor diagnosed me with Bipolar Disorder i though i finally had the answers to my problem but now I’m having second thoughs!
Here are some of the medicines my phychiatrist has put me on…
-Seroquel 25 mg until i got to 300mg and i was sleeping for 12-15 hrs a day and when i woke up i was still tired.
-Abilify 10 mg and i had stiffnes in my muscles.
-lithium 100mg and i was extremely tired all the time.
-Fluxotine 80 mg worked very well but my mind was raising constantly and i could not sleep.
-Geodon 40 mg made very tired.
Im curently on Lamotrigine 50 mg and i get very tired like that feeling that you get when you have the flu (like you dont want to get out of bed)
I dont kno what to do…the doctors dont know what to do??? Help please!!!
A: Your highs and lows sound a lot like a classic description of Bipolar Disorder.
My son was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder his junior year in high school. His doesn’t manifest itself the same way yours does, but it’s really affected his life.
They tried a lot of different meds on him. He’s even been in clinical studies at the local university (and thanks to one of them was on a med that has given him permanent muscle tremors).
He’s very bright, but a lot of the meds made him so tired and it was so hard to get him out of bed and off to school in the morning (much less doing a good job once he got there) that he barely graduated.
His doctors do think he has elements of Borderline Personality Disorder as well but since there aren’t really any meds for that, they’re still treating Bipolar as his primary issue.
He’s one of that small percentage of people who can’t take the newest drugs (SSRIs?) because they make him seriously suicidal.
For quite a while now he’s been on Depakote ER and while he’s still not 100% normal, it seems to be keeping him relatively sane. We’re just concerned because he is at the maximum dosage now, so if it stops working (or if he gains enough weight that the dosage requirements would change) we don’t know what they’ll be able to give him.
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