[bipolar gemini]

Anyone take more than 200mg of lamictal?

That's the dosage im on and not sure if it's just not working anymore if i need to increase it?

[Skitz13]

I take 250mg. How long have you been on it?

[sarahblue]

It's possible to take more, but it's something you should discuss with your doctor. S/he may want to try other meds.

[BlackSheep79]

I'm on 400 mg, I started taking lamictal 7 yrs. ago. I would suggest talking to your pdoc. I also have to take a antipsychotic, which I'm currently doing the medicine merry go round with.

[bipolar gemini]

I've been on lamictal for years now, and am just starting the roller coaster again after finding a competent pt. i'm going to a new one in 10 days..but that's so long away and i need something in the mean time to stop these suicidal thoughts..

thank you BlackSheep79 and Plzti for sharing your dosages...it's good to know that i can increase it without any horrible side effects for the time being.

[littlemiss44]

I.take 200mg.in am.and then 200mg at bedtime. I've been on it for ten years and have no side effects. I'm also on geodon.which helps the lamictal and ad work better together. It really helps stabilize my moods and I love that there s are no side effects. 400mg is the highest dose you can take...no higher. I would also talk to yr pdoc about increasing out if you feel like you need it. I can't say one bad thing about it. I was going to try lithium but decided I didn't want the bad side effects. I was just having bad breakthrough episodes which is why we considered changing it but the geodon took care of the problem. I wish you luck. Hugs

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[pawn78]

250 mg, might go up to 300

[doglover1979]

I'm at 300 and it seems to be a good dose for me. I took 150 for a long time, and looking back I can see that I was still very symptomatic, but because I felt so much better than I did unmedicated, I thought I was OK.

I still cycle, but its much more manageable. My Pdoc doesn't seem to like the idea of going up much more. I'm ok with that because I would rather have room to increase if I ever really need it. I really don't want to switch or add another med.

[BipolaRNurse]

I've been on 300 mg since last fall, and I've noticed that it does help make the depression a little less severe and last a shorter time. Used to be I'd fall into deep, black depressions that would go on for months; now they last for a couple of weeks at the most. Of course, it helps that I have a lot of people watching out for me and who will call me on it if they think I'm spiraling down (or ramping up).

[exclamationpoint]

I take 300 mg now, was on 350 mg before. I haven't had any side effects from it.

[ceramichornets]

Originally Posted by doglover1979

I'm at 300 and it seems to be a good dose for me. I took 150 for a long time, and looking back I can see that I was still very symptomatic, but because I felt so much better than I did unmedicated, I thought I was OK.

I still cycle, but its much more manageable. My Pdoc doesn't seem to like the idea of going up much more. I'm ok with that because I would rather have room to increase if I ever really need it. I really don't want to switch or add another med.

Do you mind me asking what you mean by symptomatic? I was on 50mg of Lamotrigine for a while but I was still having suicidal thoughts, self harming, etc. Now I'm on 100mg and it does help (i.e. when I'm sad it doesn't last as long) but I still have hypomania episodes, get REALLY anxious, and still tend to self harm.

I'm considering talking to my doctor about a higher dosage, but whenever I bring up things about it and how it might not be helping he always asks what I think I should do about it. He simply won't offer me any sort of medical opinion, just exists to sign the dotted line for my prescriptions. So if I wanted to up it a little more, I would just have to tell him that.

[doglover1979]

What I meant is that I still went through some stronger hypomania and depression than I realized at the time. Periods of expansiveness and impulsivity, ranging from too happy to an extreme coupon run where I became obsessed and spent tons of money accumulating cheap crap.

Also, periods of angry depression.

The symptoms you mention haven't completely gone away for me, but I manage them with therapy skills. I have other mental health stuff going on that can never be managed with just meds, though. So I accept and work through it. It's getting better.