new med

[frailstateofmind44]

I finally saw my psychiatric nurse practitioner yesterday after 3 months and I want to say it was a decent appointment. I did feel like it was a bit rushed but I think maybe I just have too much I want to discuss and of course it’d be impossible to cover it all in just one visit so I get it. Anyways she decided to start me on Lamictal and tomorrow will be my first day taking it. I don’t know why but I feel a little nervous about it. Normally I’m never hesitant to try a new med but I guess this time it’s probably because I’ve never tried a mood stabilizer before. I will say I think I feel more optimistic than nervous though so that’s good I guess. I’m really really hoping this works for me. The only feelings I’ve had this entire year are emptiness/numbness or complete despair. I just want to start feeling better so bad. As always thank you all so much for being here and if you have any experiences with Lamotrigene good or bad I’d really love to hear about it. Hope everyone’s having a good day

[Rufus07]

I’ve been on lamictal for I don’t know how many years…over 10. I’m on it for my bipolar 2. I feel like it stopped working for me a while ago because my moods are crazy up and down. I don’t really get the manic part of the bipolar, just crazy deep depression. I’m scared to stop taking it for fear of getting worse If that’s even possible. I see my med doc next week. Maybe I will see if there is anything else I can take. I’m sorry this isn’t positive, but it’s just my experience with this. I hope you have better luck.

[PadThaiNoodles in reply to Rufus07]

I also have Recurrent Brief Depression. My troughs can include catatonia, where I can’t move anything but my eyes for a couple of hours.

I’m on Lamictal (lamotrigine) and Lexapro (escitalopram), which manage it pretty well for me (maybe 3 or 4 troughs a year, with one or two of them including catatonia). Before the drugs I was at about 2 to 3 per month.

My troughs are generally 2 to 3 days long; I don’t think the drugs change that part much.

[Rufus07 in reply to PadThaiNoodles]

I’m on day 7 of this uncontrollable crying an deep depression. It really sucks. I spend my days just sitting on the couch unable to get anything done.

[zandi01 in reply to Rufus07]

Sending love and hugs be patient we fall and rise again ....but we don't stop 😍

[Rufus07 in reply to zandi01]

Thank you🙂

[PadThaiNoodles in reply to Rufus07]

Keep courage. There will be better days ahead....

[Rufus07 in reply to PadThaiNoodles]

I know there will be. I just hope they get here soon!

[Rufus07]

My night wasnt well. I slept most of the day and wenr to bed early. Thank you for asking🙂

[Pizzaparty31]

hi, so my back story real quick is I wasn on Lexapro for about 8-10 years, not really sure. It decided to not work anymore so we switched a few times to different meds but it wasn’t working like it use to. So I decided to come off of them. My psychiatrist tapered me so horribly that I had so many different symptoms. I held out for 6 months but I couldn’t do it anymore so I went on Celexa. That didn’t work at all, got really dark so they put me on Lamictal and it’s been 2 months on it. You have to titrate really slow on it. I’m at the suppose it therapeutic level which is 100mg starting but I see a time change but I’m still nowhere near who I am. I’ve heard good things about this med and bad things so it just depends. I hope it works for you