Posted by thegron on August 18, 2012, at 18:17:32
Hi,
I am new to this site and I'm hoping to get some helpful feedback on what I am currently going through
I'll try to make this post as succinct as possible.
I am a fairly healthy 22 year old male who was recently put on lamictal a little while ago to see if it would help reduce some of my anxiety. As an aside: my anxiety is pretty bad but has never impaired me cognitively in any way. I took 25mg of lamictal for two weeks and then upped the dose to 50mg. About 6 days into my 50mg week, I started to, all of a sudden, feel very DUMB. I realize that this is a baby dose of lamictal but I have a very very sensitive body and respond to medications at fairly low doses. This cognitive impairment slowly worsened over the course of that day and even got a bit worse the next day. After that it sort of plateaued. My Psychiatrist told me to lower the dose back to 25mg. I lowered the dose and stayed at 25mg for a couple of days with no symptomatic improvement. He then told me to discontinue the drug. I did so, and it has now been 6 days and I do not feel any better. This is alarming as I am starting Pharmacy school (memory intensive) in less than a week. I need my brilliant brain back!!!Anyhow, I have heard many people say that it took a week, even months to feel normal. I have even heard people (only a handful) say that they never fully recovered. As you can imagine, my anxiety disorder is not helping me think about this clearly and I am in desperate need of support.
What would be most helpful to me is, for you people out there who have experienced this, to let me know how long it took for you to feel better.
-Thegron
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