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Old Apr 27, 2017, 04:35 PM
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My balance is terrible. I stagger around sometimes as if I'm drunk, and I've had a couple of bad falls in the last few months. I think it's the Lamictal; I'm on a large dose and I noticed more problems when I went to 400 mg. The doc warned me that this probably would happen, and he was right. I have to lean against things when I'm standing still for any length of time, I grab onto the pew in front of me in church when getting up because I get dizzy and off-kilter. It's a pain in the @$$. But it's worth it if the Lamictal does its job, which it does.
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