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Lamictal and depression: has this happened to anyone else?
Mon, 09/22/2008 - 15:04Topic: 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.
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Submitted by Phoenixstar88 on Tue, 2017-09-12 - 13:39
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I don't think you should stay
Submitted by Phoenixstar88 on Tue, 2017-09-12 - 13:40
I don't think you should stay in a relationship like that! It's so wrong!! You deserve better
Re: Lamictal and depression: has this happened to anyone else?
Submitted by Tgarr on Mon, 2009-05-11 - 13:37
I had a very stable job and a great boss for almost 8 years. A merger put me out there to be abused by the new group. I have had trouble with depression since I was in my 20's (I'm 49) and have tried Wellbutrine which without question I liked and it helped me until I had a seizure. It was a grand mal so we stopped that medication and tried Lamictal (Bi-Polar I was my diagnosis) but the depression kept pace with my new bosses CYA moves so I tried 2 mg of Xanex. Through my ingnorance, I stayed on Xanex XR for about a month and then as I started feeling better, I went cold turkey. BAM, another grand mal....this one was terrible beyond imagination. Now I am being tappered off of Xanex (takes about 18 weeks) and the removal has sent me into a sort of tail spin. I'm on 450 mg of Lamictal and suicide thoughts and darkness and wanting to sleep all the time are overtaking my life. I'm sort of a mess, but have to hang in there becasue if i stop taking Lamictal, the State will take my licence to drive and I am, as we say, screwed becasue my wife WILL NOT work. Her not want to work puts everything on my back and makes things even worse.
As you can see, I am stuck. Stuck in a so so job. Worried about my future. Have a wife who feels rescuing dogs and cats are her priviledge and gives little regaurd to anything financial (she tells me I worry too much about money.....??????) Really? She does not worry about much, I can tell you that. Up coming college tuition does not phase her nor does anything. She is a child, but, everybody loves her. She is sweet, but lives a totally unexamined life.
Again, it's all on my back and I'm about to break.
I had a very stable job and a great boss for almost 8 years. A merger put me out there to be abused by the new group. I have had trouble with depression since I was in my 20's (I'm 49) and have tried Wellbutrine which without question I liked and it helped me until I had a seizure. It was a grand mal so we stopped that medication and tried Lamictal (Bi-Polar I was my diagnosis) but the depression kept pace with my new bosses CYA moves so I tried 2 mg of Xanex. Through my ingnorance, I stayed on Xanex XR for about a month and then as I started feeling better, I went cold turkey. BAM, another grand mal....this one was terrible beyond imagination. Now I am being tappered off of Xanex (takes about 18 weeks) and the removal has sent me into a sort of tail spin. I'm on 450 mg of Lamictal and suicide thoughts and darkness and wanting to sleep all the time are overtaking my life. I'm sort of a mess, but have to hang in there becasue if i stop taking Lamictal, the State will take my licence to drive and I am, as we say, screwed becasue my wife WILL NOT work. Her not want to work puts everything on my back and makes things even worse.
As you can see, I am stuck. Stuck in a so so job. Worried about my future. Have a wife who feels rescuing dogs and cats are her priviledge and gives little regaurd to anything financial (she tells me I worry too much about money.....??????) Really? She does not worry about much, I can tell you that. Up coming college tuition does not phase her nor does anything. She is a child, but, everybody loves her. She is sweet, but lives a totally unexamined life.
Again, it's all on my back and I'm about to break.