Posted by MattA on December 27, 2003, at 13:34:35
In reply to Re: Lamictal and (its) taste, posted by SLS on December 26, 2003, at 8:21:46
Hi Scott,
Thanks for your reply. I've been on this dose for more than two months now. Since that dose is quite high, 500 mg, I hope it will ever go away. It's strange that anything else tastes quite normal. I think I'll consider switching to lithium citrate despite the higher cost. The tablets we have here are coated and citrate by itself is already much more friendly to the tastebuds than carbonate. At our lab we once measured the pH of a solution of a 400mg lithiumcarbonate tablet in a liter of water. It came out as >11 ! I'm therefore very curious to see if switching to citrate will also stop my extreme cravings for sour things. Anyway, we'll see how it goes.
MattA
> Hi.
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> One of the side-effects of Lamictal (lamotrigine) is "taste-perversion". It changes the way things taste and can intensify taste. For instance, for a while I couldn't drink plain water because it tasted like salt water. It made good things taste bad. (I don't remember it making bad things taste good :-)). This effect eventually disappeared, but it took quite a few weeks.
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> - Scott
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