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Long Term Lamictal Use and Side Effects
Mon, 08/14/2006 - 23:08Topic: Medication Issues
Hi All,
who among us has had to give up Lamictal after taking it a pretty good while? When I went on it around two years ago, I thought it was just the right med for me. Now I've started to struggle. My short term memory has gotten so bad, it's cost me two jobs. I'm always so dizzy, I feel as if I've had four or five beers. I've gone from the local Tabasco Kid to a diet so bland it would bore a baby. Go ahead and add in absentmindedness and clumsiness. Top it off with some plain old profound disorientation and major depression. In four or so months I'm a mess where I was a model. My new neuro just wanted to throw some Dilantin back in the med mix. (I'll die before that happens!) Help me out here folks. Anyone had Lamictal go sour on them? Or was it last years' brain surgery taking me for a roller-coaster ride?
It's been a long time gone for me. I hope my Family of Buddies are all doing well. I'm happy to be back. Peace- marko
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Re: Long Term Lamictal Use and Side Effects
Submitted by hildac on Wed, 2006-08-16 - 22:30
I have only been on Lamictal for about 9 weeks and I'm getting off of it in the next two. I had about a 2 week period when it was really pretty nice. Then, I progressively developed a speech impediment, became more and more dispondent, blurred vision, clumsy, muscle twitches over the last twelve days. I saw my neurologist yesterday & she's pulling me off the lamictal over the next two weeks & titrating me up on trileptal over the same period.
Wild ride. So, you've got a lot worse situation than I (no brain surgery and I have temporal lobe seizures), but the lamictal really went sour fast for sure.
Good luck. cool.
Ive been on it for like 3
Submitted by Doomrae on Thu, 2018-09-06 - 07:06
Ive been on it for like 3 months after switching from topomax for complex basilar migraines(they dont hurt. I go numb and then it looks like a seizure). It has kind of given me my life back. Im only on 100mg and I havent felt this clear or confident that i wont collapse during a night out with friends (again) in years. I really hope this doesnt happen:/ Im a nurse. I need my brain. Without meds my migraines take away my short term memory and make me exhausted all the time, with topomax i couldnt wake up to alarms or speak properly and my back felt like glass plus i was a total space cadet. I have a hx of eating disorder, hypotension, and tachycardia so i cant do the beta blockers and wont do the crazy weight gain ones(i know myself enough to know that would cause a relapse). I kind of need this to work.