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Originally Posted by doglover1979
I'm at 300 and it seems to be a good dose for me. I took 150 for a long time, and looking back I can see that I was still very symptomatic, but because I felt so much better than I did unmedicated, I thought I was OK.
I still cycle, but its much more manageable. My Pdoc doesn't seem to like the idea of going up much more. I'm ok with that because I would rather have room to increase if I ever really need it. I really don't want to switch or add another med.
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Do you mind me asking what you mean by symptomatic? I was on 50mg of Lamotrigine for a while but I was still having suicidal thoughts, self harming, etc. Now I'm on 100mg and it does help (i.e. when I'm sad it doesn't last as long) but I still have hypomania episodes, get REALLY anxious, and still tend to self harm.
I'm considering talking to my doctor about a higher dosage, but whenever I bring up things about it and how it might not be helping he always asks what I think I should do about it. He simply won't offer me any sort of medical opinion, just exists to sign the dotted line for my prescriptions. So if I wanted to up it a little more, I would just have to tell him that.