Is it possible to be that sensitive ?

week three of cutting back on the lamictal , 15% or so , hard to be precise because cutting pills , ... and I am having "issues"
... anxiety , a little down , just not feeling right (hard to explain) , so I thought sinus , allergy , over work ect ... found a way to rationalize every thing , but last night 6 hours of staring at the ceiling chasing theology thru my head , never been that bad before , to be fair sleep has always been bad for me ...

Is it possible for such a small decrease to cause issues ... my pdoc has always said I am very sensitive to meds , he has even laughed about it ,

If this is related , do you think it will go away with time , or am I just stuck with the full dose ,

Had to miss work today just too tied from no sleep to drive safely ... I can not keep doing that ...

but I really do want to lower this dose , and pdoc has oked it , and was going to go 100mg at a time , but short term I am going back to 300mg .... may try again at even smaller decrease ... I really hate to think I am stuck here ...

should I just give it more time ... ? ... God I just love psych meds ! ... What is different from being addicted ?

Yes it is possible to be that sensitive to meds.. I am... Pdoc just shakes his head... main reason we can't find anything that works without the side effects being on the seek emergency medical help list. Truthfully I don't think there is much difference between this sensitivity and being addicted. Though Ive not been addicted to anything before so I really have no proper perspective. Good luck.

I believe it is quite possible to be sensitive to medications. In fact there is a school of thought that some doctors ascribe to where "micro" doses of meds are used. I myself do not take any large dose of ANY medication and do rather well. I wish you the best of luck and don't give up.

I'm extremely sensitive going on and coming off meds. My dosages are a fraction of what many other people take.

I'm coming off Lamotrigine and Lithium. When I reduced my Lamotrigine by 75mg I plunged into an even deeper depression than the one I was in.

Coming off the Lithium has been a little strange, though not the hell other people have described.

The other day, I felt like I was on new drugs, not going off old drugs. My body adjusting to me not having these meds left me feeling somewhat oddly drugged.

I still have 100 mg to go to get off the Lamotrigine and see my pdoc tomorrow. My ECT is in a couple of weeks so I'll probably be stopping that after my appt tomorrow.

Whats the logic behind the decrease? is it just to see if you can go lower and stay stable?

If your having side effects that you can't tolerate I can see your wanting to decrease...

You have had a rough time finding stability my friend.. so why rock your boat at this point?

I am very sensitive as well. I am also on 100 lamictal.

I become very physically dependent on meds, so when I go off of them it's always really rough for me. With my lamictal taper I was sick the entire time, but, as I've said before, it only got really bad when I was down to about 50mg. I'm happy I just happened to have three days off of work in a row, or I would have had to call in.

Anyway, so small decreases can cause issues.

If I was you, I'd just keep on going. You can do it. It's only bad in the short term. Once you're off lamictal, you're off. I didn't have an residual issues once I was off of it.

(Of course, now I'm obviously back on it. Lol! But that's just because I got PPD really bad and needed to go back on it.)

Anyway, good luck! Stay positive!

Oh, wanted to add, put yourself in survival mode. I do that during tapers. I give myself breaks too, like if I can't get anything relevant done while I'm tapering, I don't get down on myself. Survival mode!!!

I am not thrilled to be back on meds...but it seems to keep me calmer. Not sure if I would be this calm med free.

I was doing quite well on 200 then had a bad time with racing thoughts and all I had access to was lamictal so he raised me to 300 , since then I have "survived" these events with xanex short term , since I had been "stable " on 200 he said I could cut back , but I have several things going on at once so I have given up on this and may try again later ... it really torn my sleep up ... I have to admit it makes me feel like a failure ...

Dropping off meds and it not working out atm doesnt make you a failure.

4 years ago I was on all kinds of meds trying to find something.... anything that would level me out some, I.was.desperate.

My Daughter was diagnosed BP I 3 months later . I was 43 she was 19 ... She was put on lamictal and Seroquel. Seroquel caused her to black out at the lowest dose, She tossed it out. She hit 75mg lamictal and was flying straight and doing fantastic. At that point I on was on AP number 2 or 3 and moving up Lamictal I hit 150 and wanted to hold there and see if it helped.. I was miserable, why could my daughter take so little and be doing so fantastic and here I was maxing out doses of all kinds of shyt and I was still a train wreck?

My pdoc said everyone metabolizes meds differently. My body processes meds at a ridiculously rate where as my daughters is very slow.

So just because you might need 300 doesnt make you worse or less or a failure.. It just means your body functions better at certain doses .

As a life long Insomniac .. Sleep is a precious thing .. I seldom sleep more than 20 hours total in a week. If I was on meds and made a change and it dropped my sleep anymore... I would stay were I was and be grateful for the sleep I could get.

Insomnia is pure hell and can destabilize a person with Bipolar in the blink of the eye..

I'm wondering if I am sensitive or if this is just a placebo effect I'm dealing with...
I was prescribed wellbutrin on Monday and because of some issue with my insurance, some kind of authorization is needed and it is supposed to take 48-72 hours for everything to process. So I was able to get 3 pills from the pharmacy in the mean time. First day I took it, I felt great, and did for those 3 days. It's day 4 and I still don't have an answer. I'm so irritated and tired and I don't know if it's just because I didn't take it this morning or the circumstances. I have to much going on today to deal with this.