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Old Aug 06, 2004, 03:25 PM
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wow, that sounds like a pretty horrible reaction!

Mine seemed to me to be getting worse yesterday, so I had my pharmacist take a look. He's not a MD, but he does know drug reactions. He said to take some Benadryl for a couple days and see what happened, and that I only needed to go to the ER if I started having trouble breathing. He wasn't at all sure it was from the Lamictal.

So far I've taken 4 Benadryl -- 2 last night and 2 today -- and it isn't as flaming red as it was, nor is it spreading. I'm cautiously optimistic that this is from the sun exposure and not from the med. But I've never gotten a sunburn in targeted points all over my legs! :-)

I guess it just goes to show you never know with these meds.

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