Posted by jsarirose on September 17, 2002, at 16:48:10
In reply to Should I Give Up On Lamictal?, posted by TomG on September 17, 2002, at 12:44:59
> I gave Lamictal six weeks at 150mg and have been on 200mg for a week now. I have felt nothing positive or negative from the drug (no unbearable side effects).
I've spent a lot of years looking for a med that would work. Some of that time was wasted because I didn't go to the very maximum dosage. I would highly recommend pushing the Lamictal much higher (slowly, of course). You can go up to 800mg from what I've researched and what my doctor says. As long as you aren't having any side effects that are intolerable, you may want to consider going higher.
Some people are treatment resistant and need higher than average doses of meds to get the benefit. Also, you're able to go much higher on many drugs than what the pharmaceutical company originally publishes. For testing purposes they only go so far, but after a while de facto use creates a better guideline.
-Jessica
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