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Lamictal side effects/weight changes? Or Tegretol?
Mon, 08/13/2007 - 13:19Comments
Lamictal side effects
Submitted by ED811 on Mon, 2012-02-13 - 12:33
Took it for 3 weeks (1 wk @ 50 mg/day, 2 wks at 100mg/day). My entire face swelled up, esp my lips, BAD, inside mouth swollen shut/bleeding/covered in sores, could not swallow. Massive sores inside mouth, have not been able to eat for 3 days. Rash all over lower half of face, rash all over rest of body.
I am missing a lot of the skin inside my mouth now and this has all been massively massively, immensely painful, and my face is hideous with the lips swollen 3x their size and the rash. I think the FDA should ban this drug from the market, this is the most painful experience of my life. I got an IV treatment and a prescription for painkillers/antibiotics - I have not taken Lamictal since Friday but the rash is still spreading today, Monday 2/13/12, it's all over my ears and hands now as well.
Took it for 3 weeks (1 wk @ 50 mg/day, 2 wks at 100mg/day). My entire face swelled up, esp my lips, BAD, inside mouth swollen shut/bleeding/covered in sores, could not swallow. Massive sores inside mouth, have not been able to eat for 3 days. Rash all over lower half of face, rash all over rest of body.
I am missing a lot of the skin inside my mouth now and this has all been massively massively, immensely painful, and my face is hideous with the lips swollen 3x their size and the rash. I think the FDA should ban this drug from the market, this is the most painful experience of my life. I got an IV treatment and a prescription for painkillers/antibiotics - I have not taken Lamictal since Friday but the rash is still spreading today, Monday 2/13/12, it's all over my ears and hands now as well.
Re: Lamictal side effects/weight changes? Or Tegretol?
Submitted by binkey16 on Thu, 2008-11-20 - 16:21
Hi Elizabath, I have been on lamictal for 11 years, and yes the weight gain is a problem, but at 40yrs old I prefer weight gain to a seizure. I do have an 11 year old, and when I was pregnant I was on 300mg of dilantin a day, and my daughter is very healthy, of course she was very very planned and I followed dr's rules to the tee. I was also on tegretol but only for a short time, the side effects were too much to handle.