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Originally Posted by Disorder7
I want to try Lamictal but I'm afraid because it has a black box warning. I know it's rare. Only 1 in about 1,000 actually die from Lamictal....I guess I have better odds of being struck by lightning. But I'm still scared.  |
Are you referring to the potentially fatal rash it could cause? Yeah, that freaks me out too, especially since my pdoc said it was "1 in 10,000," but when I looked it up, it's 1.3 in 1,000 for adjunctive BP therapy. I'm like, uhhh, that's a HUGE difference, wtf doc. That's why the extremely slow titration schedule, but yeah, it still freaks me out, because I do have sensitive skin, so I'm going to be checking every inch of my body daily for any sort of weird rashes, just in case!
(And the odds of being struck by lightning are 1 in 700,000 in the US, but 1 in 3,000 in your lifetime... so lightning is a safer bet than many psychiatric drugs. Thanks big-pharma, go figure!
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