Posted by poop'd-out on December 12, 2003, at 14:45:51
In reply to Re: Lamictal- dosage recommendations for depression?, posted by linnette on December 9, 2003, at 2:32:31
> Hi Beth,
> Thanks for following up. I'm not doing too well as of mid week last week. Very agitated, sick to my stomach, anxious, tearful, terrible insomnia, (ie depression). I suspect my other meds in my cocktail (zoloft and nortriptyline) have finally washed out of my system, so here I sit with this. I hate this. I had an appt with my pdoc last Tuesday, and he upp'd my dose of lamictal to 250 and I just couldn't tolerate it.
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> I have also had the flu so it is hard to tell what is causing all of this distress.
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> But right now I feel like I need something just to make me sleep for awhile. The little bit of xanax that I take, isn't cutting it, and neither does adding a little. I will see how the rest of the week goes.
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> LinnetteHi Linnette,
I am so sorry you are feeling so badly. I am at the opposite end of the spectrum right now where all I want to do is sleep. Maybe we should get together and even eachother out.
How long have you been off your other meds? I'm sure alot of what you are feeling is some withdrawals, it always takes awhile for my system to adjust to that. From what I remember it was your decision to discontinue these, were you feeling that badly? I know alot of times when I add a new med I have to tweak around with what drugs I take and at what time to find a balance. Were you taking all of the meds at the same time? I take my zoloft(100mg) at night. I was taking 50 at lunch and 50 at night. I have had to do this many times, figure out what to take when etc.. alot of times just changing when you take what, and what you take with what can make a world of difference. That has been my experience anyway. Whew, that sure was alot of 'what with whats'.
I am sorry to hear you have the flu, that can really make it hard to tell how you are truly feeling. So many times I have had the flu and I am not even sure if its the flu or depression or just me and on and on...my depression can be very physical(can't hardly move, pain, extreme weariness) same symptoms as the flu.
I don't think I could tolerate the Lamictal without other meds. I sometimes get very irritable(more like rage) when I am depressed and other times just can't move don't want to do anything depressed. I definitely have felt the agitation the Lamictal can cause, and I really think my tegretol keeps it somewhat under control.
Of course, at this point all of what your experiencing could just be getting the other meds out of your system, oooh what we have to go through. You poor thing, it just sounds like you need a good night's sleep, I wish I could help. The only thing I can offer is my experience, I never have trouble sleeping, but the times that I did were when I have gotten off meds(for about 2 weeks at least), but the Lamictal is notorious for causing insomnia from what I have read with other posts. I'm sure you knew that though.
Keep in touch please and maybe we can help eachother through this. My hope is that by the time you read this you will be doing much better!!
Beth = )
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