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Sep 29, 2012, 03:09 PM
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I am diagnosed with BP II. Take 500 mg Lamictal. As I gradually increased the dosage of Lamictal, I would have very vivid and violent dreams. But I've been on my current dosage for about a year, and the dreams have all but disappeared. Until last night. And I don't even know if last night was really dreaming. I'm worried I might have been experiencing hallucinations. It's been very hard to differentiate between reality and "dream." I know there were times I was awake. All of it was so realistic. I honestly thought everything I experienced was real. I had to check with my fiance to help decide what was real and what wasn't. It's very discincerting and a little scary. The one thing that I did differently was take something OTC that contains diphenhydramine hcl. I am wondering if that contributed to this incident. Has anyone experienced such interaction between Lamictal and diphenhydramine?
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Sep 29, 2012, 03:48 PM
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I have horrid nightmares with diphenhydramine, so I avoid the stuff like the plague. I don't know about any interactions with Lamictal, although I'm on it too. The last time I took Benedryl was over a year ago, and I didn't start on Lamictal until March of this year. But I wouldn't recommend the Benedryl to anyone. It's a bad drug, especially for older people. Have you tried melatonin yet?
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Sep 29, 2012, 03:57 PM
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I'm not going to take it again, that's for sure! Melatonin didn't help me. I have Ambien if needed, but I try to avoid it.
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Sep 29, 2012, 10:53 PM
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And now I'm scared to go to bed...
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Sep 29, 2012, 11:50 PM
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Do you have any anti anxiety meds to help calm you down??
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Sep 30, 2012, 12:28 AM
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Ativan...guess it's time for that.
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How I Roll: Bipolar II and Anxiety Lamictal 300 mg Ativan 0.5 mg N-Acetyl-Cysteine 1200 mg |
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Sep 30, 2012, 07:42 AM
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Lamictal gave me deranged and realistic dreams, but I kind of liked it. But then again - I spend the majority of my free time playing computer games, so maybe its less troubling for me to process?
They're gone now that I'm on sodium valproate though.
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Current medication (Stress): Venlafaxine 150 mg Previous Medications: Citalopram, Stresam, Espiride, Lamotrigine, Wellbutrin, Epilim (Valproate) Previously diagnosed Bipolar Type II (11/12) |
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