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Lamictal Side Effects??

Fri, 07/26/2019 - 21:04
I’ve been taking Lamictal for seizure activity in my brain without having seizures. They just wanted to try to calm those down and I was fine with that. We tried another medicine first but I reacted really bad to it so they put me on Lamictal to have less side effects. And I definitely did have less side effects I felt completely fine. In the past four months I started getting what I thought were tremors. It was only while I laid down at night to go to sleep. But it would die down in about an hour from it being off and on for several minutes. Then in the past 2 months I have had them the worst. I started getting them during the day, my first one during the day was at physical therapy. And then it would just be at night again. Then the past few weeks I have an insane amount of these “episodes” I found out my neurologist actually thinks there focal seizures because of what happens during them. I had two more at pt i had the worst ones a few days ago at night when I lost consciousness. I don’t know what’s going on at all? My Lamictal dosage was even upped a few weeks ago so I don’t understand what’s going on. I had another eeg and the brain waves still have seizure activity, that’s why they upped the dosage. But I’ve never had this problem before starting the medicine. Even though I had seizure activity in my brain I never had a seizure (except two or three but it was caused by a medicine). Has anyone had or known someone with this reaction to taking Lamictal? I assume it’s the medicine because I never had this problem before I started taking this medicine.

Comments

Please check your

Submitted by Amy Jo on Sun, 2019-07-28 - 02:18
Please check your prescription, was it recently filled with a different generic or was it properly filled with the correct pill (correct mg pill)? Seizures can change so it might not be the medication. And seizure medications can stop helping sometimes. Please talk to your doctor about getting to the bottom of this. Know that if you suddenly stop taking your meds, it can cause serious reactions so lamotrigine should be stopped and started more slowly than many other drugs.

No, it is the exact same that

Submitted by faith15johnson on Sun, 2019-07-28 - 13:38
No, it is the exact same that I’ve always had. At least it says it is. We need up my dosage to 150mg instead of 100mg because I was starting to have more of these focal seizures but it’s just so bad now. I’m calling my neurologist on Monday to see if I can switch medications because I’m just not comfortable taking it anymore. And if it isn’t the medicine that’s causing them more often than at least I’ll know. We started it really slow and if I do stop it it’ll be really slowly! Thank you so much! 

Your doc might push to keep

Submitted by Amy Jo on Sun, 2019-07-28 - 16:41
Your doc might push to keep increasing the dose for a while as your dose is very very low. 400mg is a more common dose for adults with epilepsy. When our child started lamotrigine at 8, her dose was higher than yours and would have gone much higher if we could have. Switching can introduce more side effects, takes patience to figure what is working. We are only now weaning off it five years later to see if her seizures have stopped as her partials that weren’t controlled tapered off as she got older and her generalized seizures were likely genetic with a chance they’d stop. Might still be early to try but we definitely went through seizures getting worse (first three years) and just slowing things down with medication.

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