Posted by KayeBaby on April 6, 2007, at 21:55:53
In reply to Lamictal made me very sick, posted by metalblade on April 5, 2007, at 8:01:42
I had this reaction too. I was only on it for less that a week and only at about 12.5 mg. It made me hypo too.
My Dr., fortunately had mentioned to me this possibility so I caught it early. I was on 60 mg Prednisone for about 5 days and that really screwed me up! My thoughts were flying so fast I felt like I was in a wind tunnel. After discontinueing the pred I could NOT sleep at all for days and was in bad shape for a while after that.
Seems like your Dr. would have told you about that possibility and it should have at been alerted when you called with this problem so that you could have gotten prompt care.
I'm glad you are ok.
Peace,
Kaye> I haven't used this board in a long time, but since it is a good source of information for everyone I thought I would share my recent experience with lamictal.
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> Around December I started having panic attacks that would cause my blood pressure to shoot up to 189/107. This little problem landed me in the hospital on their phyciatric floor. At the time the doctor seeing me thought the answer was to add Lamictal and Geodon to the Lithium and paxil I was already taking.
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> To sum this up, I left the hospital feeling great on the Lamictal, it was like a controlled hypomania, and who doesn't want that. Unfortunately, that wasn't going to last long. I was up to 50mg when one night I had terrible night sweets and a metallic taste in my mouth along with a soar throat.
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> The next morning my throat was fine so I took my next dose. Around 6PM these itchy bumps started popping up on my arm then sporadically all over my body. The next day I didn't take the Lamictal, but that didn't seem to matter, it got worse. I had what appeared to be a sunburn on my face and arms. I was running a temperature and felt as if I had the flu. My heart would beat fast and hard at times also.
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> I've been two weeks getting over this, and its been a scary experience. I've had to go to three different doctors because my Pdoc waited for two weeks before he would see me and all his receptionist would tell me was if its an emergency go to the emergency room. Well I did that, and as you know emergency rooms like to treat everything as a panic attack, give you a benzo and send you on your way.
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> Then I went to see a family doctor. He did a strep test, and when it turned up negative he told me it was all viral then said it wasn't strep as he walked out of the room. I'm really down on incompetent doctors!
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> Finally, I go see a doctor who has experience with allergies, an Allergist. He was concerned that the prednisone would make me manic so he only gave me four days worth at 10mg and scheduled me for a follow up appointment the next week.
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> After suffering a week and a half, I took the first dose of prednisone, and that night I didn't get a fever plus the flu symptoms started going away. So much for it all being viral.
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> I did experience one other thing and I'm glad I started the prednisone when I did. On the second day of the prednisone the itch bumps where going away, but I had a slight rash on my lips and my mouth had an icy hot feeling. That too went away and finally after about two weeks I feel normal again. With out the prednisone I think I would still be sick or worse.
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