Posted by HenryO on June 22, 2003, at 23:51:05
In reply to Lamictal » HenryO, posted by cybercafe on June 22, 2003, at 19:09:02
I have been on it for only about five months now. But it takes a while to work up to a therapeutic dose. I was told to expect that to be between 200 and 300mg. I went up 25mg a week. So far more has been better. I have liked it all along. I have a current post asking about Lamictal's susceptibility to poop out. I don't know about other peoples experiences with it or its method of action. I think its pretty new. I felt really bad after I completely let the old cocktail wash out of my system before the Lamictal started working. It was pain like I've never had before. I also get pretty bad seasonally. That's why I am going to keep increasing my dose up to 300mg. Most of these meds do a much better job of preventing depression than they do at curing it. Stability leads to stability and instability leads to instability in any system. My pdoc told me that one. I like it a lot. All in all, side effect wise (it's nice to have a libido), energy wise and mood wise I actually feel good. And that is no small thing.
I hope Emme keeps upping the dose because I think that at some level the drug overwhelms the disease. So that when you have a spike in your disease it doesn't poke up throught the medication. To say that another way, it gives you enough psychic reserve(distance between disease and med level) to be able to handle the stressors which would normally unbalance us. I'm sort of rambling here but this is my take on what I'm doing with meds.
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