|
crazywonderful wrote: I have had so much luck with lamictal for depression. I was so depressed I had suicidal ideations hourly. I take 150 lamictal. Went down from 300. It did wonders and I literally have not been depressed for six months now. There is much documented success with this med. Check with your doc first before taking any med. There is an adjustment period so give it time. After six months of experimentation with a whole batch of meds we went to Lamictal in December and within two days I was more flat and even than I had been since I can remember. I just went up from 100 to 125mg, but I think my current, hopefully temporary, depressing circmustances are taxing the drugs affectiveness so I may need to go up some more...at least temporarily. Lamictal was an absolute miracle and lifesaver for me. Also, no side affects except you have to work up about 25mg at a time to avoid getting a skin rash that could get serious if the dosage is too high too quickly. I was first diagnosed as just depressed so one of the meds I went on was Silexa (spelling) and because I was bipolar and not just depressed the Silexa had the opposite affect and I had almost uncontrollable suicidal urges and impulses. I've been in life threatening situations before, but that was the most afraid and terrified I have ever been in my life barely being able to not eat a bullet. It was so bad that one day the fuel pump on my truck went out and I was already stressed about something and while waiting for the tow truck I had to walk away from the scene because I carry a handgun and left it in the console and had to fight myself harder than anytime in my life to keep from using it...soooo scary how delicate the chemical balance is up there. I took myself off the stuff and in two days the urges went completely away and that's when the bipolar diagnosis came about and enter Lamictal...thank God...BP is better than dead (most of the time anyway ) Post edited by: lobo, at: 05/25/2008 20:25 "A man is not defeated when he loses, he is defeated when he quits" Richard M. Nixon
"If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on earth" Abraham Lincoln |
Bipolar Support Forums
