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Lamictal and depression: has this happened to anyone else?

Mon, 09/22/2008 - 15:04

Topic: Medication Issues

I started lamictal nearly a year ago and had very few problems when I first went on it. I was first on depakote but due to the idea that I may go away for college I had at the time, I went on lamical. For the a good few months I felt fine and like my old self. Back in the spring I had started to feel bad on myself which at the time I attributed to the fact I couldn't get the loan I needed to go to my first choice college but recently I have been feeling so much worse. I feel like I am not worth people's time and and like I was never meant for anything in life. Life has just become a dull repeat everyday already and I don't know how to deal. I want to know if this happend to anyone else who has taken lamictal to help to determine treatment.

Comments

Re: Lamictal and depression: has this happened to anyone else?

Submitted by scratch on Sat, 2008-10-04 - 05:33

kyrie first of all welcome............and you are worth the time to all of us..........so please don't think that way......i know your pi ssed about not getting the loan for college........but there are other colleges out there.......all of us with epilepsy have to work twice as hard to achieve anything........so never ever quit or give up.........i dont know about lamictal so i cant comment ...sorry........but we are all here to support each other.........take care and god bless.......scratch

Re: Lamictal and depression: has this happened to anyone else?

Submitted by JinLondon on Sat, 2008-10-04 - 05:51

Hi Kyrie

I just asked my Neurologist about just that. I am generally very much a 'happy-go-lucky' kind of person, but in the last 3 weeks or so I have been feeling so low and having melt downs sometimes over nothing. She told me that it is not a normal side effect for lamotrigine, but that I should contact her if it continues.

More than likely it is my belated reaction to having so many seizures this spring and having my whole life turned upside down. So I am hoping things will start to look up again soon.

Hi Kyrie

More than likely it is my belated reaction to having so many seizures this spring and having my whole life turned upside down. So I am hoping things will start to look up again soon.

Re: Lamictal and depression: has this happened to anyone else?

Submitted by kbell19 on Fri, 2008-12-12 - 22:41

I've been feeling the sam way, but I've only been on it for 4 months. I do have things to stress about but they usually don't make me cry like I do now. It could be the lamictal or the fact that my hormones may be out of wack from having a baby although it was a year ago I've never felt the same. I do have to say I'd rather have a few melt downs than worry about having seizures. Since I've been on lamictal I haven't had any. While on Dilantin and then Keppra I was a zombie all the time and still had seizures that became more frequent. If no other AED has worked I would say try it because u can always change ur meds

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