Posted by jack623 on November 6, 2005, at 23:46:34
In reply to Re: Need some support on Lamictal, posted by fuchsia on November 6, 2005, at 19:36:04
> Hello Jack
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> Sorry you are feeling so crappy.
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> I'm probably not in a better place but I have a similar history with regards having had many many antidepressant (and other) treatments and ending up with the bipolar II diagnosis.
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> I'm on Lamictal now also; I just got up to 175mg. For me there has definitely been a positive effect so I'll probably stay on it and add something else as well if it's not enough. It took me 3 months to get up to this dose though and I've had some gradual improvement.
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> Do you think you haven't noticed anything much changing since you started Lamictal? Was it a month ago you started it?
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> If it and the topomax are your first mood stabilisers there must still be a lot of other options for you.I've been titrating up to 125mg for about 1.5 months. At first, I really felt good, almost hypomanic. My sense of smell was really acute and I was excited about life, for about a week. But I was also tapering off of Effexor (induces hypomania in me). Now I am totally off of the Effexor and I have some really bad days. I get very irritable and sad. I am not used to the irritability. My hope is that with the higher doses of Lamictal, this will subside. How abut you?
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