Posted by JahL on April 8, 2002, at 18:37:43
In reply to LAMICTAL usage for soft Bipolarity(BP2), posted by Mondeo on April 8, 2002, at 3:06:21
> has anyone good experience with this med,as a monotherapy and ON WHICH dosage ?
Yeah. I'm BP II/NOS & Lamictal has been the most useful mood stabiliser so far. Slightly improves all symptoms except social phobia. Particularly good for reducing suicidal ideation and for reversing terrible psychomotor retardation somewhat. Best AD qualities of all the AEDs I've tried.
I actually responded best @ 25mg. It was more hypomania than euthymia but was a decent improvement all the same. The benefits have subsided somewhat with time (this seems to have been the case with a few posters), unrelated to the fact that I continued to increase the dose. I'm now stable on 400mg. It seems to work much better with Klonopin. The benefits, whilst not dramatic, are sustained and there are no real side effects to speak of (except RLS).
I agree it's probably not great as an anti-manic monotherapy; it's one of only 4 drugs (out of 40+) to have sent me hypo. Made my lil' bro (soft BP) hypo too. Not that either of us were complaining...
J.
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