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Yes it works I've been on it for a year now if i stop now will there be side effects? And can i be pregnant on this medication?

yes I was diagosed back in 1997 with bipolar1 and I find this medication to be very helpful. I feel I have less epsisodes since taking this medication.

Yeah, success at last My daughter has had seizures since early childhood. Lamictal is the adjunct drug that actually consistently controlled her grand mal seizures.

Tegretol did not control them. The combination of 2600 mg of Neurontin daily and Lamactil has worked fairly well. We use Valium to break seizure cycles in five day bursts if needed. However, memory problems persist.

Yea, lamical is better than Depakote or lithium Tried lithium for a short while, didn't work and made things worse. Depakote, eeagh uncomfortable feeling all the time and severe depression. Lamictal 150mg 1x daily works great with few side effects for me. I still get depressed but less so with lamictal and it didn't keep me from going manic once. But is much better, don't have to closely monitor my blood levels and so forth with Lamictal like I did with Depakote. One doctor prescribed me 6000 mg of Depakote and put me into a coma. It was a horrifying painful experience when I woke up in the hospital. I almost died. So Lamictal is the best for me.

Yay for head drugs! It took a while for my P.Doc to tweak my personal drug cocktail, now being lamictal, serenace, lithium and epilim, morning and night. It seems to be working as I'm not as manic as I once was and not plumbing the depths of despair as much on my days off from mania. Best of all I'm still alive and have a beautiful woman who loves me.

Wow! What a miracle! After battling severe chronic depression for about 20 years with a year or so of suicidal misery (can't sleep, can't eat, only holding on because I am a parent), taking Lamictal lifted me from my hellish existance. I feel joy and pleasure again. I had really given up after so many years of hopeless suffering. I know it won't work for everyone but it is so worth the chance of getting better. For those of you still in hell, don't give up and keep trying everything!

Wow August/2003 - I have had a nasty sleep disorder [irritability, itching, constantly waking up] for years. The only thing that helped was Valium but not for long. Then, I was diagnosed with bipolar 2 and put on Lamictal. It is supposed to help depression and it certainly has [no depression in over two months instead of up and down all day]. But it has also eliminated my night anxiety and sleeplessness. Lamictal is not supposed to work on the manic phase but I haven't had one of those, either, in two months. I sure hope this continues to work. It's a new world.

November, 2003 - I have now been on Lamictal for about five months. It is still working against depression [much milder and more controllable with cognitive strategies] except that soon after I wrote the first part of this review, I started experiencing the same old cycles of irritability and sleeplessness. These happen a couple of times a month and can last as long as eight days. My shrink gave me oxazapam to be used, sparingly, but I find I can usually get by on antihistamines or gravol. Anyway, the cycles of irritability are getting worse so I am going to go to a new shrink to see if I should take more lamictal - I am only on 50 mg - or whatever. The problem is that when I am not irritable [manic? but it's no fun - I've had fun manic cycles and this ain't it], I can't really remember how bad it gets. Therefore, I don't tell the shrink what he needs to know to get serious. I think that's at least part of the problem, anyway.

In the Canadian system, right now, there are too few psychiatrists so it may take several months to get an appointment with a new shrink. I'll survive, [I get rageful and suicidal but don't seem to do anything about it] but now that Ive had the experience of no cycles I WANT THAT BACK!!

Would've been great, but... It worked well enough and I would have been happy to keep taking it, but I got a rash. Not the mean and nasty death rash, but rash=no.
The rash lasted a good long time. I can still see marks from it on my skin.
Apart from the rash, it was decent. Not so many outbursts.

Works, but is very expensive Again a medication that works but is very expensive especially if you don't have insurance and have to take other high priced meds.

Works, but at a price... I had Lamictal added to my Dilantin two years ago to treat my complex partial seizures and immediately noticed I was having trouble walking straight, almost like the sensation of walking on a boat at sea. The feeling caused me to have a sense of motion-sickness. I had to hold on to things to keep from walking into walls. I was sleepy and lost my appetite too which added to my problems. The only good thing that happened was my seizure frequency decreased by 50%. My doctor encouraged me to stick with the medication and it took about a year for most of the side effects to subside.

Works well This is my first bipolar med. I definitely notice a change in my mood on Lamictal. I am more even emotionally, which is a relief. Everyone around me appreciates it as well. I was a little nervous about the rash that you could get but luckily, I never got it. I haven't really experienced any side effects. I notice it works better for my extreme highs than my extreme lows.