Posted by n_wolfie on February 24, 2009, at 15:52:47
In reply to Re: Lamictal optimal dosage » n_wolfie, posted by SLS on February 23, 2009, at 20:30:36
Hi Scott, my memory has improved vastly. It's not great, and I have some lingering depression, but it's not nearly as bad as it's been for the last 3 days, when I couldn't even leave the house, it was very scary, even though my mood was better for the first two days off of it, except yesterday. My writing still isn't as great/creative as it was on the Lamictal, (writing was only bad yesterday.) I guess it's a trade off between my memory, my creativity, and my mood, but now neither are that great. I'm hoping the nardil takes care of the lingering depression, but I'm 2 weeks in, and I'm not feeling much yet.
> Try not to worry. You are going to need patience on this one. You have quite a way to go to reduce your dosage of Lamictal down to 200mg.
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> You must expect that during these dosage-reduction induced depressive dips, you are going to manifest all of the symptoms of your depression, including depressive cognitive impairments. So now you got two things working against you: depressive cognitive impairments plus high dosage Lamictal cognitive side effects. Give yourself one or two days for your system to stabilize. You should find that your mood stabilizes and your head clears a little - but not a lot. You're still taking a lot of Lamictal.
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> How much did you decrease the dosage of Lamictal by?
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> - Scott
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