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#1
Aug 05, 2018, 02:20 AM
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My 18 year old is on 200mg of lamictal, but his sleep patterns are getting worse as are his mood swings. Is lamictal enough to stop impending mania?
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#2
Aug 05, 2018, 02:32 AM
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In my case Lamictal was completely ineffective.
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Aug 05, 2018, 07:38 AM
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Lamictal did not prevent my mania. It has been helpful at easing depressions, but I can only take small doses along with at least an antipsychotic and other moodstabilizer.
To my knowledge they call Lamictal a moodstabilizer, so I assume it acts like one for some. Just not me. For me, it is more of an antidepressant. Last edited by Anonymous46341; Aug 05, 2018 at 10:15 AM. |
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Aug 05, 2018, 07:47 AM
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It has limited severity and frequency of hypomania (I am type II) for me.
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#5
Aug 05, 2018, 07:50 AM
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lamictal helps my depression ... by making me very flat ... but I need another med (doxepin ) to have any ( emotional .. feeling ) ...
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Aug 05, 2018, 03:49 PM
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Lamictal did not help control mania for me.
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Aug 05, 2018, 03:57 PM
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I am not completely sure what happened to me on Lamictal, but it may have put me in a hypomania/mixed episode or at least did not help stop that. I am feeling better as I titrate off it, but maybe too soon to be sure. My mood swings felt much worse and at the very least it definitely seemed to mess with my sleep cycles. I know that's not really an especially typical response, but that's what seemed to happen to me.
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#8
Aug 05, 2018, 03:59 PM
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Lamictal helped me more with depression than mania.
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Aug 05, 2018, 04:36 PM
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Yes, it helps with both mania and depression for me. But meds are different for everyone. If Lamictal made your son’s symptoms even worse, maybe Lamictal isn’t the right med for him. There are many other options. Something to talk to his psychiatrist about.
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Aug 05, 2018, 05:22 PM
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My experience with Lamictal is it made me stay hypomanic. I was on it for a few years. Then I noticed once I tapered off it in 2016. I’ve not been hypomanic since. Again this is just my experience. I was taking 400 MG
Edit: It did help me with depression but it was a catch 22 because it caused me hypomania.
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#11
Aug 06, 2018, 12:15 AM
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It was ineffective for me. It did not ease or prevent mania at all.
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#12
Aug 06, 2018, 05:15 AM
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Studies have shown that lamictal is really only effective for bipolar depression, not so much mania.
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#13
Aug 06, 2018, 08:21 AM
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It stabilized me out of a mixed episode all by itself.
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#14
Aug 07, 2018, 02:26 PM
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No. It does prevents nothing. It'a a bad chemical sugar pill.
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