lamictal

Hi Fighting for life,

Welcome to HealingWell and to the bipolar board. I'm really glad to hear that Lamictal is working so well for you. It helps me a lot too. Thanks for the encouragement.

serafena

Hello, I wanted to share my story of lamictal.  I’ve been on it for 7 years now for borderline personality disorder and just recently over the last 8 months I’ve been puling myself off of it.  The first reason why was because I was starting to feel “weak” that I had to take medications to alter my well being.  The second was because I knew that I wanted to have kids within the next few years and they say you shouldn’t be on lamictal while pregnant or breast feeding.  While still on lamictal, I was a rather hostile person.  I felt a lot of anger and depression.  I was constantly thinking about suicide and was constantly trying to find ways to “relieve” the emotional pain by poking holes in my skin, hitting a concrete wall with my fist and even a few times I overdosed on medications.  I did all of this without anyone ever knowing.  There were days I was so desperate to find relief with happiness I’d try the next best thing (chocolate) and soda, but there were some days I was so deep in pain I couldn’t find a way out.  Over the years I also began suffering a lot of short term memory loss, I could no longer recall events or remember things that I had done even just a few hours earlier.  It seemed like overall, the emotion that got the best of me was anger.  Over the last 8 months I have been weaning myself off of lamictal and seeing quite the results.  I’ve had weeks were I have felt like a zombie and not really in my own body, then I’m back again.  But overall, I’ve honestly felt more happiness and more positive feelings then I’ve felt in years.  I still get bouts of hostile feelings but rather than on a hourly basis’s for random reasons.  Now its only once in a blue moon and for a reason.  But I finally feel like I can now recover and be me again.  I’ll probably never know if I really suffer from BPD or have anxiety issues.  But I do know that the combination of Lamictal,  Seroquil and Buspar apparently caused the majority of the issues I have faced for so many years.  If you have suffered from these same problems, consult your doctor about changing your medications, its not worth it, it definitely wasn’t worth it to me.

Hello,

I used to take Lexapro and that made me gain all kinds of weight, but I was also misdiagnosed as well. :(

The person I was seeing before didn't seem to understand how I was feeling. Yes I was depressed but I also had horrible mood swings which made me to the point I felt like I was so crazy that I wanted to hurt the person I was mad at for no reason at all.

I never ever did anything like that, but I thought about it a lot, plus a lot of things really ticked me off. Like the sound of a clock ticking or people talking to loud or even being in a large group of people. I just couldn't stand it and something would happen and make me mad.

I've been taking Lamictal since June 3rd. My first two weeks I took 25mgs, then on on June 16th I started taking 2 25mgs to equal 50mgs which I will take for two weeks.
I've almost been on 50mgs of Lamictal for a week and once the two weeks are up I'll be put on 100mgs.

Honestly since I'm finally on the right medication and I went to two different places and the agreed saying that I was misdiagnosed before and that Lamictal would help me I feel great.!

My family and friends think I'm doing so much better. Things don't agrivate me like they used to.
I'm able to keep calm and not freak out being in a large group of people anymore and I can talk more calmly.

Tho I'm still on a low dosage so I do have small outbreaks of aggrvation, but not like it used to be.

I think with time I will be even better.

So far it's been great.

I wish the best of luck to anyone who tries it and I hope it works great for you as it has for me.

 

Post Edited (Jeckia) : 6/20/2012 5:50:00 PM (GMT-6)

I have been on Lamictal 200 mg. for over 3 years for bi-polar depression. I had problems at first, then I started taking it before bedtime at night, and I take rispidone .5 mg as a mood stabilizer. It has helped me tremendously. I workout about 3 to 4 days at week. I do water aerobics, weight training and cardio workouts.

I have a strong faith that has help me to get it together.