Lamactil and Libido

I've been on Lamictil for almost a month and my libido is crazy high...I thought most psychoactive drugs would cause a loss of libido...is this normal?

I haven't noticed a difference on Lamictal.

I've been taking Lamictal for 8 years (since diagnosed). It really doesn't seem to effect my libido. That still seems to follow mood for me....when I'm up, I'm good to go...When I'm down, leave me alone

You're not alone. I'm on it for a month and my Libido was never this high. But not too high to get myself into trouble, I'm still in my sense. My doc says it helps with the depressive side, so most probably the reason it give the rise to our libido. Not sure if the same case for others. I must admit this is great feeling I needed for a long time LOL.

once in a while a drug causes one's libido to go up rather than down. this is not common. Prozac did that to me, until it stopped working entirely.

I don't remember it doing that for me, but everybody's different.

it made my menstrual cycle normal and I did give me a little boost.

My libido was high on Lamictal.....but it's kind of always been high LOL. Still not sure if Lamictal makes it higher than usual, but it's not that uncommon for me to get hypomanic symptoms on it still from time to time, so that might explain the high libido. I am glad I never had any issues with low libido on it though!

No effect.

---this is not good news to me. I really want to go on lamictal in october, but i have heard it can cause weight gain too. I am single and do not want to cope with unwise relationships threatening my stability. i want to go on lamictal because antidepressants allow me to kick up into hypomanic.
sounds like you are still getting manicky which would be my whole reason for taking it. No, psych meds do not always depress the sex drive. One of the biggest problems in treating bipolars is that when some of them , especially antidepressants, rev you up out of depression, they can push you up too high, then suddenly u are a hypomanic or manic love machine!
The dosages in one's meds cocktail are apparently a huge factor.
Thank u so much for sounding the warning on this! Those bad romances are something we bps pay too high a price for.

I am on lamatcil and i also have a crazy sex drive. The wife barely wants to have sex so have to fix my erge myself. Which sucksThe weight grain can be countered. My doc told it holds the carbs on you so i cut the carbs and dropped 70lbs with exercise to.

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I don't feel a difference

I'm glad for you (if this is a positive!) - Lamictal hasn't given me either a boost or numbed my libido, but antidepressants sure do. Funny, I had such different experience w/Prozac -it killed my drives, I didn't like that effect.

I have noticed cramps and light bleeding since lamactil, normally I do not menstruate because of my IUD

Ummmm I said my libido was high, not my promiscuity.

As for weight gain, I'm losing weight because I have a high-intensity extremely physically demanding job...housekeeping. I have to bust my *** every day and hardly any time to eat. I've lost 26 pounds in two months, 20 in just the first month.

Apparently you got everything wrong about lamactil. Lamactil's purpose is to both level out extreme mood swings and ease anxiety. No idea what you mean with this generalization that "BPs" have uncontrollable sexual urges...I can assure you, most "BPs" can keep their hands to themselves.

Edit: And how can you schedule yourself to take on new medications? How can you plan on taking a drug in October? Are you waiting for your doctor's approval and October is when you see him? The more I look at this post the less and less I understand it.

Prozac did the same for me, as well as make it a lot harder to cry.

I was on zoloft which led me to the manic episode that caused my one and only manic episode/hospitalization. I refuse to take any antidepressant although i have had tried one that i cant remember the name but did not cause much of an effect

It could be triggering hypomania - too much lamictal can do that, especially if you're bipolar 1. I found when I initially started taking lamictal, any dose over 12.5mg would trigger hypomanic symptoms.