So I’ve decided to stop taking my lamictal, the side affects is trumping the purpose of being on them. Plus with my line of profession I can’t not afford the short term memory loss which I’m having, blurred vision at times I think I seen something move very rapidly like a mouse for example when there isn’t any where I’m at but I have to do a double take, the uncontrollable body temps, the foggy head feeling, nausea, and my face is breaking out cause of the meds. I work in the operating room and that short term memory loss in a big NO NO I have patients that I’m responsible for and have to make sure that everything little thing that is in that room on my surgery table is accounted for. Every needle, every gauze, every instrument etc...
I’ve been on it now for like 4 months gradually working my way up the mgs. I’m at 300mg and have an appointment with my psychiatrist this week and going to let him know about my decision but today I start not to take them at all. I researched a few other drugs for mood stabilizer and bipolar 1 but most have the same side effects and I can’t have that now with my job and patients lives in my hand.
Before my diagnosis and taking the meds my job wasn’t really affected as in going into surgery with the surgeons but now while I been on it for a little while I’m starting to see that it is, luckily I been doing it for so many years now and I have great nurses who know what needs to be done but being absent minded sometimes my thought is lost I’m like in la la land is a big NO for me during those times.