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Originally Posted by ~Christina
Welcome 
If your Pdoc ( Psychriatrist) feels that Lexapro caused it why do they still want you to take it? "usually" if there is a "chance" a medication caused an episode the first thing is to take a person off the med.
Lamictal works on the depressive end of Bipolar it does virtually nothing for hypo/manic mood shifts. Its also actually a Seizure medication that was found to offer some help with depression. I think they did finally add it to the class of " Mood stabilizer" Its takes time for that to show any signs its working because of the way you have to start out low dose and slowly increase to avoid SJS Rash
Do you have a follow up appt with your Pdoc soon?? Maybe there is a reason to leave you on it  How many sessions/ appts have you had ?
Sorry dont mean to fire tons of questions I'm just trying to get an idea of your situation  |
Questions are great! I've only had 2 sessions with my Pdoc and the soonest therapy appointment I could get was next Wed.
What she had said on keeping me on the Lexapro was that I was still so depressed, she thought that would help and that by adding the Lamictal it would help balance out my mood.
Luckily, I really have had no side effects from the Lamictal.
I'm still trying to feel out my care team and how much I really like and trust them yet. I feel as though I should give them a fair chance and see where it goes!
Thanks for the warm welcome!!