Lamictal Dosage and Treatment Time

Have you discussed this issue with your neurologist. It is true that some medications can drain the energy faster then others. If you discuss this issue ask questions and get an answer. I have taken many different medication in the 50+ years I have been living and dealing with epilepsy. I also know that some medication do drrain energy. Basically what they do is calm down the central nervious system. One of the medication used even today is phenobarbitol which is also used as a sleeping pill for some (or was used). Most medications today are designed to have fewer side effects. However some people will have different effects other then the listed side effects. A medication that works for one person may not work on the next and side effects are like that as are dosages. Talk to your neurologist because he can change your medication and the next medication might not drain your energy like this one is doing.

Have you discussed this issue with your neurologist. It is true that some medications can drain the energy faster then others. If you discuss this issue ask questions and get an answer. I have taken many different medication in the 50+ years I have been living and dealing with epilepsy. I also know that some medication do drrain energy. Basically what they do is calm down the central nervious system. One of the medication used even today is phenobarbitol which is also used as a sleeping pill for some (or was used). Most medications today are designed to have fewer side effects. However some people will have different effects other then the listed side effects. A medication that works for one person may not work on the next and side effects are like that as are dosages. Talk to your neurologist because he can change your medication and the next medication might not drain your energy like this one is doing.

Oh and as for getting off medications. Unless your neurologist tells you to you shouldn't. I say that to keep yo ufrom doing something that can harm you and possibly kill you. You see back in 1970 I hadn't had a seiuzre in many months and was tired of taking meds because they also made me tired. I was fine for about 8-9 days. Medication levels are in your body and it does take time for that level to leave your body. All I know is I stopped by my mothers house on the way home from college. All I can remember is being loaded in the back of a stationwagon in the morning and 3 days later I came to. What happened was I went into status epilepticus. After getting to the hospital they brought me out and before Mom got back I went into it again. I don't remember being briught out or talking to them. After 3 days I remember waking up in a hospital bed. Back in 1970 a person could be brought out and have few problems. If they went back in few came out. The doctors told me they had done everything they could and followed that with Split a hair a thousand times and thats how close to seeing Gods eye you were" Then followed it with Your Mother didn't give up. She had been there all the time. They gave her a place to sleep and food but she was there. So I can say if it weren't for a mothers prayer I wouldn't be here today.In otehr words you could hurt yourself bad if you get off your meds without  your doctor telling you to.