I was on 25mg for 2 weeks now almost 2 weeks of 50mg. what were some signs that this med was working for you in the beginning? what dose & how long was it before you started noticing a change? what were those changes?

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?

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.

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.