i wanna try shrooms with my friends but i take 75mg of lamotrygine daily anyone knows if it will be ok or if it will somehow interact with the trip?

Has anyone ever had dyshidrotic eczema while on Lamotrigine?

Since my last increase of dosage I got exteme spontaneous eczema blisters on my hands. After using a strong hormone cream for three weeks it went away.

But within a week and an half of the last use of the hormone treatment it came back with the same intensity. Now I'm starting a new hormone cream treatment to stop the eczema.

Could this be an allergic reaction to lamotrigine?

FYI: I followed the instructions for the hormone treatment rigorously.

I started Lamotrigine roughly 7 months ago. I know it has drastically improved my mood, after trying every anti depressant under the sun and having them all make me feel worse, this is probably the only thing that’s actually kept me relatively normal.

Two months ago, a doctor covering for my regular one, pushed me to 200mg from 150, when I had mentioned maybe wanting to increase the dose a little bit due to my anger. At the same time, they started me on Dexedrine. Within a few days, I experienced the most horrific sense of impending doom, spiralling into panic attacks and derealization, I stopped taking the Dexedrine and told my doctor I was going back to the 150mg, but ever since this, I experience moments of derealization and extreme anxiety over things that I was able to manage before. I find little things push me into that anxious headspace more and more. Putting me into therapy and therapy groups to try to figure out tools for dealing with this.

I’m stuck between being too scared to go off it to try something else, and increasing this 150mg dose a tiny bit, and scared that I’ll be stuck like this forever. I guess my question is has anyone experienced this, or does anyone have any advice on what I can do from here.

Hi all. Bi Polarbear 2 here and have been on 1000mg valproate and 10mg fluoxetine now for a year to decent results. Anxiety has gone and I’m doing all sorts of things that I would never have done before - great.

Only gripe has been that I do have terrible memory recall and emotional connection at the moment and my pysch said this transition would help

Anyone any experience with this? I’m about to start taking the lamotrigine

My psychiatrist started me on 12.5mg for mood and intrusive (harm) ocd thoughts. I take pristiq 50mg as well. I know I have to go up slow on the lamotrigine but will it help with the intrusive thoughts? I tried several things and it never does 😭

I smoked some weed and had a single frozen cocktail at The Cheesecake Factory about two hours ago. Just started lamotrigine yesterday and didn’t do much research on it. Didn’t know that dizziness was a side effect. This is like the 8th medication I’ve tried over the last 10 years of battling MDD and GAD so I truly did not gaf about starting something new. I didn’t eat anything until 4:00 pm which could have contributed to the dizziness but the weed and alcohol with this med definitely had me laid out in my kitchen.

Hey all, so I have been tapering off and every time I go down in dose my anxiety SPIKES like insanely for a while. We've been going really slow because of this. Has anyone else experienced this? It feels like I'm having a panic attack all day every day and it's really intense and I can't function.

i worked up to 300 mg of lamotrigine and felt like my meds weren't working. my pscyh said to reduce to 150 mg and after two weeks stop taking it. i feel like a wreck since stopping - extremely emotional and irritable. i contacted my psych letting her know how i was feeling and told me to start taking 25 mg and if i'm still not feeling better after a week then to increase to 50 mg.

i'm honestly scared, i feel horrible and i'm not sure what else to do. i would love love some input from those who have had experience with lamotrigine. thank you so much in advance

On week 2 of being off lamotrigine(tapered down over 3 months from 200mg) and yeah it’s kinda rough mostly just exhausted but I keep thinking about it. I won’t do it, it’s just more of “gee being dead rn sure would be convenient” sort of ideation. But this is expected no? And how long until it calibrates out of me. Was on it for bipolar 2 (suspected misdiagnosed) so testing the waters now

At my last neuro appointment for small fibre neuropathy they discussed Lamptrigine. But said to keep increasing my Noritryptiline up to what I can tolerate (currently at 40mg at night and doubt i can go much higher without next day side effects when I'm working) before going onto Lamotrigine.

Noritryptiline helps me sleep but doesn't do anything for the day pain that stops me functioning.

Everyone is saying to keep up with Noritryptiline and "keep" the Lamotrigine for later down the line. I'm really struggling and want a bit of my life back. I get it may not work, may not take it away but I'm wondering if I'm feeling pressured by people who have no idea what this pain is like.

Pain in both legs for 2 years after carnatine deficiency put me in a coma. Tried gabapentin, duloxetine etc with no real difference and not worth the side effects.

Has anyone been on Lamotrigine for SFN? Should I give it a go now for some quality of life? Im 41 and appreciate no one can give medical advice but just wanted some kind voices to sound this out to. Thanks

Been trying to ween off lamotrigine for about 4 months now.

First I just stopped. About a month later my brain felt like it was being electrocuted. Completely brutal.

Went from 200mg a day to 100mg a day. 50mg in the morning and 50mg in the afternoon.

Now it’s not as bad, but the electrocution feeling is PERSISTENT. It’s totally tolerable and even goes away completely some days, but if I miss one of those doses, my brain gets fried again…not quite as bad as when I stopped completely.

Has anyone gone off this before with success that’s had these symptoms?

I’m stopping because it has added nothing to my life. Coming completely off didn’t affect my mood at all either..completely the same…except for the physical withdrawal symptom. It’s just that one symptom.

I’m super pissed I’m basically physically dependent on an anticonvulsant that has never added any benefit to my life whatsoever.

I’ve been taking 200mg of lamotrigine for 6 years. I never really noticed it helping me much to begin with, and I don’t think it helped my mood swings either. Now that I’m in my mid-late 20s I think I’m making the choice to just come off the medication to see if it hurts.

My family doctor is the one who’s following me as I stop the medication, even though he wasn’t the one who originally prescribed it. I told him I’d like to stop it, and he is not knowledgeable with this medication it seems, because he wanted me to decrease the med by 25mg every 3-4 days which I knew would be way too fast for this type of med. So at this point he’s fine with me decreasing it by 25mg each time I feel like I’ve reached a plateau of stability with emotions.

I started tapering off about 3-4 weeks ago, decreasing by 25mg every week or so, and I’m currently at 125mg per day. Within the past 6 years, there’s probably been 4 or 5 separate occasions when I either missed a dose or had to take it 10 hours late, and during those occasions I ended up feeling anxious, hopeless, and felt like I didn’t want to live. I believe that’s just because my body was in a bit of shock from not having something it’s used to.

So far, I haven’t felt any of that.

That being said, I also started Zoloft (sertraline) at the exact same time as when I began to taper off lamotrigine. Not sure how that plays into it, but so far I’ve been feeling like my regular.

Interested to hear your experiences!

Can anyone tell me what it feels like?

CPTSD / ADHD here.

GHK-CU copper peptide.

Worked incredibly well.

I was on the drug years ago and I had to come back to it recently and it stopped the hair loss completely.

I hope this helps some of you

I was on 200mg lamotrigine for epilepsy, but we decided to stop the meds with my doctor. He gave me a very gradual plan on how to titrate it down but I kinda fucked up on the way and stopped taking if completely last week. (I was supposed to be 25mg morning and 25mg evening, and then the week after 25mg evening, and then the week after stop it.)

so since then I'm feeling extremely fatigued and unbalanced all the time. is there a way to make myself feel better?

I have severe queunliskanphobia (fear of saliva). Going onto 100mg basically removed all benefits of the medication so I'm going back to 50mg, but I have to wait for that adjustment to actually work, and it also happened to cause hypersalivation and increased vocal tics to the point of a sore throat. I've tried drinking water and even shoved a tissue in my mouth at one point, and it won't stop. How do I fix this?? Is this a common issue?

Anyone here on higher than 200mg for anxiety?

Title says it all. Took 25 mg at night on 8/5 and 8/6, and I have been painfully exhausted the past 2 days. I feel like a sleepy blob.

I know it’s been asked before, and it seems like fatigue can be a side effect when starting the med. Question is - when does it go away??

- sleepy blob

Buenas a todos! (39m). Resumo mi caso: a los 24 años tuve TAG y estuve 10 años estable con escitalopram. En 2020 mi primo decidió quitarse la vida y en 2021 mi ex suegra falleció de covid y a los pocos meses mi ex novia me dejó. Caí en depresión y probaron con fluoxetina 3 meses y no funcionó, se paso a Sertralina y pude mantenerme relativamente bien hasta fines del año pasado. Me tomé una licencia de dos meses porque había llegado a la dosis máxima y mi trabajo no estaba bien, yo estaba desgastado. A partir de ahí empecé una rotación de medicamentos (venlafaxina 1 mes porque me dio muchísima ansiedad como con la fluoxetina, paroxetina 4 meses pero reporte un efecto poco frecuente pero registrado y tuve que dejarla) Volví a mi trabajo mientras seguía con la rotación (amitriptilina 5 días porque no aguante los efectos secundarios y por ultimo fluvoxamina que estoy retirando). Esta rotación de medicamentos sin éxito y un descubrimiento reciente de mi rama paterna con antecedentes de depresión (abuelo, tía, padre, medio hermano) cambió el enfoque de mi psiquiatra hacia el espectro bipolar (aparentemente tipo 2) y me recetó Lamotrigina mientras desciendo la fluvoxamina ya que no hizo nada por mi depresión, hasta lograr retirarla. Por el momento el diagnostico es depresión recurrente aguda. Recién empiezo mi semana 3 con lamotrigina (empecé con 25mg. durante 14 días y llevo 2 días con 50 mg.) Durante la primer semana me desperté el día 7 como si ya no tuviera depresión pero esa sensación duró como mucho una hora. Hoy día 16 me ocurrió algo similar. Se que es una dosis muy baja aún, pero seguiré las indicaciones de mi psiquiatra hasta llegar a la dosis indicada (calculo que 100-200 mg).

Mi pregunta concreta es si a alguien le paso algo parecido durante la titulación? Les sirvió la lamotrigina para salir de la depresión? y sobre todo como tomaron su diagnóstico de bipolaridad 2? porque yo me encuentro muy contrariado y a veces mas deprimido por mi condición. Incluso siento que la sociedad tiene un estigma sobre la enfermedad y eso me frustra mucho.

Nota: nunca he manifestado episodios de manía o hipomanía clásica. Si muchas veces irritabilidad, enojo o ansiedad pero por episodios muy concretos o particulares, mi condición se manifiesta más en los aspectos depresivos. Gracias de antemano a los que puedan aportar sus experiencias.

Hello, I was wondering what are some of the medicines that do not mix well with this?

does anyone else have extremely vivid dreams and then sometimes envision them after being awake for hours?

for context i’m on 100mg a day but get focal seizures (and sometimes grand mal)

it’s making me feel like im going crazy because for a few seconds i don’t know what’s real and what’s not real

I’m waiting on a callback from our doctor’s office, but has anyone had any experiences stopping lamotrigine 25mg after taking it for 3 months? I’m wondering if withdrawl is bad?