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Old Jan 17, 2015, 12:44 PM
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Originally Posted by wiltedrose2394 View Post
1. Has anyone else reading this experienced similar side effects from Lamictal/Lamatrogine?
2. Was it difficult to talk to your pdoc and reach an understanding of what was going on, and come to agreement to decrease and eventually stop the Lamictal?
3. If you successfully weaned off the med, how bad were the side effects/withdrawal; or how quickly did you enter a (hypo)manic or depressive episode.
4. Did you ever bounce back from the dullness, if you had it? Or was it permanent?
Any help would be appreciated. Just bear in mind, I'm not talking about missing the aspects of mania- just missing the beautiful parts of life in general, and missing a huge chunk of my personality. I'm very unlikely to keep the recent increase, and downright refuse to increase more than that. I would like to drop this med totally to be honest, or at least get to as minimal amount as possible. I want a future and want to attend college, and I can't do that if my meds are dumbing me down.
I'm not bipolar but I have taken Lamictal in the past.
1. I experienced the dulling of senses and that was chief among the reasons I wanted to stop it. I live for music but the Lamictal took that away...
2. The pdoc at the time accepted my reasons for going off of it.
3. n/a
4. It wasn't permanent for me.
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