Posted by Barbara Cat on August 4, 2003, at 2:49:50
In reply to Re: Barb, Re: Lamictal side effects, posted by HenryO on July 3, 2003, at 16:10:56
Hi Henry,
I always appreciate your insights so hopefully you can shed some light on this. When I went up from 125 to 150mg lamictal I got an itchy itch all over my body, even inside my ears and nose. Checked for rashes and no rash, no crawlies from my cats, no scabies. Up half the night scratching without ever finding the itchy place, fearing some microscopic yuckies, not ever associating lamictal. Did some surfing and son of a gun, it's a lamictal thing. My pdoc suggested going back down to 125 and the itchies have subsided. But what the heck is going on?I did some reading up on itching and it's a fascinating and quite involved mechanism that no one understands very well. I just wonder, does it happen frequently with lamictal and what about it causes this? Hah! Maybe it works by distracting us out of depression. And why would the itching ever stop? What is it that we eventually get used to? It just doesn't seem safe. I can't help but wonder if someting this tormenting isn't affecting some necessary body part? - Barbara
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