Posted by yxibow on April 23, 2008, at 15:55:06
In reply to Re: Rash and restarting Lamictal and dosage, posted by Quintal on April 23, 2008, at 11:01:57
> I saw him yesterday and told him I was only taking 50mg as the dose his understudy prescribed was far too much. He seemed okay about it and advised me to either go up to 75mg at the enxt increase, or up to 100mg, whichever I thought best. He's aiming for 150mg as the therapuetic dose.
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> The downside is that he didn't want to prescribe an antidepressant because we wouldn't know which drug was doing what. Right now I wouldn't be bothered, so long as the combo worked :-(
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> Q
This is correct -- you don't add two things at once because you'll never know what actually worked. My doctor does the same thing.It's your body and doctor so I can't interfere, but seriously, it is the protocol from what I have heard from another person who is taking far more Lamictal that you ease up by 25s to begin with.
Not to be a scaremonger but you don't want to cook your insides. SJS is one of those intensive-care-at-best scenarios. Yes, I still think about it, but we've now established at 100 for some weeks that I dont react so we've gone up more quickly.
Anyhow, good luck--tidings
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