r/lamictal

Has anyone experienced hair thinning on lamictal? My appetite has been nonexistent and I’ve lost some weight in the last four months. It’s also really aggravated my anxiety so maybe it’s caused by both of those? If anyone has had this issue, did it ever resolve when coming off the medication?
I’m really agonizing over this.

I am in the process of increasing my lamotrigine dose, and I am currently taking 37.5 mg. Despite sleeping for 12 hours, I feel very tired and sleepy. Will this get better over time? If I increase the dose to 50 mg, will it get worse?

Six months in and it's working. The floor is up. The weeks aren't organized around surviving.

What I didn't expect: therapy was still hard in the same way it always was. The gap between appointments is where things fall apart — you leave with something figured out and then you're on your own for six days with no notes and a brain that's been through a lot.

The gap between sessions is where it falls apart for a lot of people, and honestly that's a format problem more than a you problem. There are CBT platforms built around exactly that — worksheets you submit and a therapist who responds every weekday instead of once a week. Happy to point at the one I'd look at first if useful.

Affiliate link if you went through mine, weigh that: https://go.online-therapy.com/aff\_c?offer\_id=2&aff\_id=6221

This is alongside the medication and your psychiatrist, not instead of either. If today is a bad one, use your local crisis line.

Has anyone found therapy more effective after getting stable on Lamictal?

I’ve been on 30 mg of Lamictal for 4 weeks. For about the past 1.5 weeks my skin has looked slightly mottled/uneven in color, and I’ve been getting occasional hot flashes with mild itching. I also have mild dermatographism (skin writing). My doctor said we can increase to 50 mg, but I’m really scared. Lamictal has changed and basically saved my life in a huge way, so I absolutely don’t want to risk a real rash. I’m a very sensitive person and that would mess me up badly. Has anyone had something similar? Does this sound more like sensitivity/adjustment symptoms, or should I be worried before increasing the dose?Really scared of rash but dose isn’t enough – please help

over 3 psychiatrists, they keep prescribing me this over the past 3 years. i feel nothingness from it, many on this subreddit says it’s “lifesaving” but i literally have never noticed the effects of it over the years. they keep prescribing it to me, i’m on 200mg now, when i express my disinterest, it’s always just wait and see. I just got upped to 200mg 3weeks ago n same thing. ik it takes like 3 months to feel something but i’ve literally had been on it for a year last time and felt nothing. most i feel is flat and uninterested.

Has anyone else not have lamictal work for them, if so what worked?

i’m also getting bloodwork done to determine what works for me.

My daughter has been on 100mg of lamictal for 4 years, coupled with prozac. She asked her psych today if another combo could be possible since her anxiety has gotten unmanageable and she says she doesnt remember how she felt pre-meds. Her psych prescribed vraylar and zoloft with no directions to titer down either med before starting the new combo. Has anyone heard of or done this safely?

I've been on Lamictal about two years now and it did what it was supposed to do. The floor came up. The bottom-out weeks stopped. I'm not going back.

What nobody mentioned is what happens after. I got stable and then just sort of sat there. Fifteen years of my life had been organised around managing crashes, and once the crashes stopped I realised I'd never actually learned how to run a normal week. No routines that weren't survival routines. Friendships I'd let go quiet and had no idea how to restart.

The medication genuinely can't help with any of that. It isn't what it's for.

If 'just talking' has never done much for you, the distinction worth chasing is a structured CBT program rather than open-ended counselling. Online-therapy.com runs 8 CBT sections with worksheets, a journal and an activity plan — the format that actually produces something you can go back to. Rated best for CBT by Verywell Mind. Affiliate link, disclosed.

This sits on top of the meds and on top of your psychiatrist, not instead of either one. It will not manage bipolar and it is not a crisis service. If today is a bad one, use your local crisis line or online-therapy.com/help-now.php.

Link: https://go.online-therapy.com/aff\_c?offer\_id=2&aff\_id=6221

Did anyone else hit the stable-but-lost stretch?

My psychiatrist recently started me on the generic Lamotrigine, two weeks on 25mg, then up to 50mg and see how I feel. Awful is how I feel.

I had a severe panic attack last week, and today I had my second, much less severe but still day altering. Everything feels extremely heightened and my brain can’t turn off and my heart feels weird and I have so much anxiety and restlessness and my head hurts and I’m so dizzy and I had awful sleep last night and I know it won’t be good tonight.

I’m stopping immediately, I’ll be seeing my psychiatrist next Monday for the follow up but I just didn’t know if my reaction is at all common, I hate every part of how I feel right now.

Edit: Manufacturer is Aurobindo

How long does it last? Extra 200 mg Lamictal?

Hi!

I should have taken my dose 6 hours ago. I feel
withdrawal symptoms.
I am able to take my dose right now. I take it 2 times a day 11AM and 4PM.
It’s 9:30 PM and I should have taken it at 4PM.

What to do? The time for next dose will be at 11AM. I’m on vacation and I’m scared of the symptoms.

So because i’ve been so busy recently and i’m an idiot i didn’t clock that i desperately needed a refill until i had one dose left. I have no refills left for some reason so I contacted the pharmacy and I think i’ll be speaking to my doctor soon as well but it’s been about 48 hours no lamictal now and i’m starting to feel like shit, obviously, but whenever I do happen to get my meds back should i titrate again before i start taking my regular doses no problem? I have been on this medication 2.5 years and i take 100mg daily spread throughout a morning dose and a night dose (25mg tablets, I take 4 each day) I don’t wanna face any issues or have any side effects so if anyone knows the safest and smoothest way to approach this please let me know!

Hello, I'm on day 2 and have some red spots and pain in my mouth but not anything that seems overly concerning. Before I go to the ER, has anyone had just these symptoms and so early on?

I have kids that live with me so I'm unsure if it's the med or sickness though no one else feels sick.

i just started lamictal a month ago and for the first time in forever, i feel ok. not good, not bad, just ok. i don’t really know what to do with that & i feel weird about it. the only real downside to it is that i have been going to sleep at like 7 every night. i’m up to 100 mg now.

I’m mostly just waiting for the other shoe to drop because i feel like this can’t last forever… but i don’t have a good concept of a timeline for how long that will be. my memory is really bad & i’ve tried to keep track of how long there is between depressive episodes and manic episodes (because I’m rarely truly stable), but yeah i don’t know.

so i guess what i need support on is just how to manage feeling like i feel nothing, are other people feeling this? is it normal?