Lamictal/lamotrigine. Anyone tried these?

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My prescriber wants to put me on this mood stabilizer called Lamictal/Lamotrigine.

There’s some pretty crazy rare side effects..

Just curious if anyone else here has tried it and what they thought of it?

Thanks

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i havent but ive heard of it alot here. im sure there a lot of people on it. bump

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I’ve been on it for a while and I love it. I didn’t get any side effects, but it’s one to be careful not to miss a dose.

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@WONDERER

I take Lamotrigine, 200 mgs twice a day. It helps stabilize my mood.

Your prescriber should start you on 25 mgs once a day for the first two weeks, so if you do get a rash it won’t be severe.

As for the rash, about 10% of people do get a benign rash that usually goes away over time. The life-threatening rash (Stevens-Johnson Syndrome) is rare, occurring in only about 0.08% to 0.3% of adults (roughly 1 in 300 to 1 in a thousand). If you titrate up too fast and/or take Wellbutrin the chances of the life-threatening rash increase.

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I’ve been on low doses before many times.

Great antidepressant mood stabilizer.

At higher doses it controls mania too.

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I’m on 300mg morning. Keeps me stable..

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Be careful on it if you nurse. Also starting it while pregnant is somewhat risky. I had high risk pregnancies while on it. It works great for me. So don’t be afraid to try it. The doctors need to watch you carefully if you do.

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That’s good to know.

My prescriber kind of worded it weird, she made it sound like 10% of people get the Stevens Johnson syndrome rash. Unless I misunderstood her, but it had me pretty worried :grimacing:

From what I’ve googled too, it says it’s rare.

Thanks for the response

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Yeah, I don’t plan on nursing.

I don’t know, I’ve been pretty unstable emotionally lately…

Very irritable, I cry easily, overwhelmed, and everyone in the house is driving me nuts..

Since they changed my diagnosis to bipolar 1, the prescriber is concerned I’m having a depressive episode.

But maybe I should wait and give an OB a heads up before I start taking it.

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If you can start taking now it would be good cause you are at risk for ppd. But just make sure you get close monitoring while taking when preg.

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