Posted by Reggie BoStar on January 15, 2007, at 19:59:04
In reply to Will Lamictal help with *this?*, posted by cgd092 on January 15, 2007, at 18:42:27
It's supposed to help with swings like that. I'm taking it too, but I'm still on a very low starter dose (25mg/day). Aside from clamping shut my urethra, it doesn't seem to be doing anything yet. (See my post below this one, "Still can't stay awake.."
If you have bipolar of some kind (your pdoc will tell you), what you're describing sounds like "rapid cycling", i.e. the mood swings happen in very short periods of time. However, other bipolar folks with rapid cycling have told me that the cycles happen no matter what they do. You, on the other hand, are using cognitive techniques to ease the depression cycle.
I don't know what that means, it's just that I've never heard someone with rapid cycling describe it that way. Are you sure the mood swing won't happen if you do nothing about it?
Don't mistake me for someone who knows what he's talking about (sigh). I'm in the dark just as much as you are, if not more. I'm only telling you what I've heard in some of the therapy groups I go to. In those groups we talk to each other the way everyone does on this forum, you know, doing our best to offer helpful advice. I stink at it, actually, but that's another problem I'm working on.
Why not just ask your pdoc if it is "rapid cycling" and see what he/she says. You'll find out if the Lamictal will help with that too. When the pdoc prescribed it, what did he/she say it was for?
Anyway, as I said, it's supposed to help. If your startup kit is like mine, then at 50mg you're about halfway to the nominal dose of 100mg. My pdoc has said that if I can hack it to that dose, he'll probably go to 200mg/day.
Well, best wishes with it, and let us know how you're doing. I sure hope it works for you the way it's supposed to.
Just keep an eye out for that rash! I had to say that, sorry.
Reggie BoStar
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