Posted by bimini on July 31, 2008, at 21:49:53
In reply to Lamictal Withdrawal, posted by lucyfly on July 28, 2008, at 12:25:03
My first try with Lamictal I got a rash with every increase of dose. It looked like fine grained sandpaper, started a couple of hours after taking it and spread quickly within 3 hrs all over my body. I increased 12.5mg at a time and was almost up to 100mg. Then my lymph nodes started to swell everywhere, by the next day I looked like a horned creature and wasn't able to move my head. The nodes where very painful. My pdoc was on vacation, no alternate. I called my primary care doc and he told me that he wasn't going to give me advice because he wasn't the prescribing physician. I quit Lamictal cold, scared and having no instructions.
I got very dizzy, needed to hold onto walls, people, anything. Hyothermia, dropping to 92. Headache and pretty pattern halucinations.
But those were some of the symptoms I had before that had improved with Lamictal. Now it came all back again. So, I think most of all I was angry at my lymph nodes for interfering. I asked my pdoc to let me give it another try after a while. She made me wait over a year. This time I started way slower than prescribed. I really wanted it to work. I take 150mg now since almost 2 years, average body temp is 96, still dips but hasn't freefallen. I can walk without cane and can imitiate movement faster. Visual symptoms have improved with vision theapy. Main problem remaining is comprehending motion. I still see patterns, lines or sticks at times. But that doesn't interfere with anything I do. Not even driving.bimini
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