Posted by sedona on October 31, 2004, at 17:01:53
In reply to Re: Lamictal Users?, posted by woolav on October 31, 2004, at 8:39:03
Hi- I would be interested in hearing an update about your progress with Lamictal. My doctor and I think I might be cyclothymic, or at least somewhere in the bipolar spectrum. I also don't get hypomanic. I have a week or two of feeling pretty good (which I think is probably just feeling normal for most people), then I slide into depression which sometimes is mild and sometimes severe with suicidal ideation. I have tried several things for stabilization and they seem to make me more depressed. I tried Lamictal twice and both times I thought it worked for a while then it seemed to stop. The first time I got up to 200 mg and the second time I only went to 100 mg. I feel like I am running out of options and was considering giving it another try at a higher dose. Please let me know how you think the higher dose is doing?
Thank you
> Hey, I am now up to 250mg daily of lamictal. And it has helped even out some of my BP2 type symptoms. I was cycling, (not having the hypo-manic side) only the major depressive side. And about once a week I would go into this horrible depression, where i thought of suicide and i would have uncontrollable crying. But that was on 200mg and my pdoc has increased me to 250 and i am starting to believe the higher dose is helping, because i havent had one of those episodes lately...thank goodness.
> Good Luck
> S
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