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Originally Posted by Sinking Feeling
5 or 6 days after I upped my dosage from 25mg to50mg I had to stop. Got me super depressed like never before, suicidal, and felt like crying, these symptoms are very rare for me! Lamictal may work for a lot of people but not for me. I felt like I was on zoloft only worse!
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From the wikipedia page about Lamictal: "The drug seems ineffective in the maintenance of current rapid-cycling, acute mania, or acute depression in bipolar disorder; however, it is effective at prevention of or delaying the mania, depressive, or rapid cycle."
That's why all of my pdocs used other drugs to pull me out of my episodes. I take Lamictal as a maintenance drug, but I took other meds to get me out of depression. There's not a lot of evidence that it treats acute episodes.
Edit: There's some evidence that it might help treat severe depression... just not a ton of it yet.