Posted by shelliR on March 25, 2002, at 13:22:57
In reply to Re: Lamictal therapeutic dosages?Shelli R., posted by Roo on March 25, 2002, at 9:07:11
Hi Roo,I'm up to 300mg of lamictal and thought I was getting the water retention thing again, but it turned out to be just PMS bloating for now. For PMS I take furosemide (40mg; sometimes 80mg the first day) and will take it everyday if I start to bloat from the lamictal. I don't have a scale and I lost a lot of weight over the past few months from severe depression (didn't eat anything for days), so now it's hard to tell about weight gain. Usually aching breasts are my first clue and that went away after I got my period.
Is there any other medication that you're taking that could be causing you to have trouble losing weight? Have you tried a dieuretic? I'm not sure that all weight gain from lamictal is fluid retension, but I'm sure in my case because I lost in so quickly after discontinuing it.
I'd think hard before stopping lamictal and would try a diuretic before I ditched it. I am so sorry that I went off--it was the beginning of my downfall. I think I told you that 200mg was working well for me and the second time it took 400mg to get the same result. And I don't know if 400mg will do it the third time, or if it will even work again. So try a prescription diuretic and see if that works (then you can try natural things later to see if you get the same effect).
Shelli
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