I'm on 100mg of lamictal. I'm thinking of upping it to 150 myself. I really need to be more stable here with the stresses I have. I've been at 100 for about a week and a half. I see new pdoc Tuesday but having a hard time waiting. What do u guys think?

[BlueInanna]

No please don't without telling the pdoc, upping it too quickly could create and allergy and potentially make it so you can't even tolerate that med. I think you want to keep it as an option right? Try to be patient during the slow increases so that it can work it's best for you. Hang in there, you can do this, you can do this (that's what I try to keep reminding myself)

Find a psychiatrist you trust. My lamicatal was just bumped up to 300. Changes don't happen that fast. 50 to 100 took 3 weeks, 100 -to 150 took a month for me to feel good. Was on that dose for well over a year. Then got bumped up to 225... still took some time. Was cycling fast. Recently upped to 300, no miracles happening yet.

It doesn't happen that fast... Three days are not going to make a big difference. If life is THAT bad that you can't wait three days, please , please go to the ER. This is worrisome.

To my knowledge, no one on this board is a psychiatrist, psychologist, pharmicist or any kind of Dr. If you don't trust any Doctors, then having a new one is not going to make a difference.
Go out an get a little exercise in, it will take the edge off... Walk to the end of the block, it is something. If you can go further, gor further.

Originally Posted by Frenetic47

Find a psychiatrist you trust. My lamicatal was just bumped up to 300. Changes don't happen that fast. 50 to 100 took 3 weeks, 100 -to 150 took a month for me to feel good. Was on that dose for well over a year. Then got bumped up to 225... still took some time. Was cycling fast. Recently upped to 300, no miracles happening yet.

It doesn't happen that fast... Three days are not going to make a big difference. If life is THAT bad that you can't wait three days, please , please go to the ER. This is worrisome.

To my knowledge, no one on this board is a psychiatrist, psychologist, pharmicist or any kind of Dr. If you don't trust any Doctors, then having a new one is not going to make a difference.
Go out an get a little exercise in, it will take the edge off... Walk to the end of the block, it is something. If you can go further, gor further.

Whoa....I had a horrible psychiatric nurse practitioner that is losing his license. Look it up it is a 22 page account. John billings just go to Washington state e department of health provider search. I have a hard time trusting pdocs although the emergency one I saw was great but she only does emergency appointments.

Originally Posted by Frenetic47

Find a psychiatrist you trust. My lamicatal was just bumped up to 300. Changes don't happen that fast. 50 to 100 took 3 weeks, 100 -to 150 took a month for me to feel good. Was on that dose for well over a year. Then got bumped up to 225... still took some time. Was cycling fast. Recently upped to 300, no miracles happening yet.

It doesn't happen that fast... Three days are not going to make a big difference. If life is THAT bad that you can't wait three days, please , please go to the ER. This is worrisome.

To my knowledge, no one on this board is a psychiatrist, psychologist, pharmicist or any kind of Dr. If you don't trust any Doctors, then having a new one is not going to make a difference.
Go out an get a little exercise in, it will take the edge off... Walk to the end of the block, it is something. If you can go further, gor further.

Oh and btw, I guarantee they will up it. Usually it's 2 wks in between raising a lamictal dose. At least that is what she told me. So I don't know why they bumped up yours so slowly.

[Melmo]

Originally Posted by passionskyy

Oh and btw, I guarantee they will up it. Usually it's 2 wks in between raising a lamictal dose. At least that is what she told me. So I don't know why they bumped up yours so slowly. Just leave me alone k.

My dr told me to go up by 50mg every week, so yea it doesn't have to take that long.

[Confusedinomicon]

Are you seeing a t?

If you're having a lot of environmental stress in your life right now the appropriate action would be to make a plan with your t. Your T could give you some direction and help you break up the stress so you can work on it in small bits.

If it's psychological distress then I'd talk to the pdoc before upping the dose. Give them a call at least. You may not need to make an appointment.

Originally Posted by Confusedinomicon

Are you seeing a t?

If you're having a lot of environmental stress in your life right now the appropriate action would be to make a plan with your t. Your T could give you some direction and help you break up the stress so you can work on it in small bits.

If it's psychological distress then I'd talk to the pdoc before upping the dose. Give them a call at least. You may not need to make an appointment.

Yeah I see a T. I'm gonna try and just take it easy. I will be seeing her on Tuesday at my pdoc appt. I will not up it, I can make it through I've dealt with worse. Thanks for responding.

[Victoria'smom]

I was/ am tempted to increase my lamictal but it's to risky given this is the only MS that has actually helped. Pdoc has us take 6 wks to increase by 100 mg.

[hamster-bamster]

Originally Posted by passionskyy

I'm on 100mg of lamictal. I'm thinking of upping it to 150 myself. I really need to be more stable here with the stresses I have. I've been at 100 for about a week and a half. I see new pdoc Tuesday but having a hard time waiting. What do u guys think?

Lamictal has an established titration schedule and you should not alter it.

[BipolaRNurse]

Sounds like you've thought better of upping your Lamictal on your own. Good thinking! I'm a nurse who's perfectly comfortable dinking around with my blood-pressure and diabetes meds all the time, but the psych stuff I don't mess with unless my pdoc OK's it first. These things are too powerful and the risk of screwing it up too great. Hang in there, passionskyy, you're doing fine.

[Anneinside]

If you have been taking your meds regularly, you won't have enough meds to increase early. You'll just run out before you are eligible to refill your script.