Überpolarbear Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 without lamictal i'm completely dumb. i cant even read news articles because i loose track and have to start reading the same sentence OVER AND OVER AGAIN to get it. but i'm very rational and my thoughts are organized and i know what i want in my life. i can plan stuff in advance and stuff (which is not really me) but i'm retarded otherwise. with lamictal, i'm brilliant. have a lot of good ideas. smart. can read and write with good speed and after reading some article i can actually summerize and tell what i was actually reading afterwards. but i'm irrational. emotional with reactive mood. and generally bad at making decisions and basicly very emotional and somewhat irrational. it's not mania i think. i'm just like a healthy person who tends to be rather emotional and hyper. like my father. but non the less, DO NOT WANT. does anyone has the same problem? i'm considering taking 100mg instead of 200 although 200 is actually a tiny dose for me because i'm on carbamazepine which reduces the plasma level of lamictal GREATLY. and my zyprexa does that too so 100mg would be real world 50 mg maybe even less. 100mg would be a homeopathic dose i suppose.... basicly i cant live with lamictal but cant live without either. i like being smart and able to read and write but i want to be rational too. it's not that i'm dangerously irrational. i'm just not as rational as i want to be. maybe i'm just irrational on my own and this is my nature? when you have mood swings from hell and derealization for 10 years you just forget how a normal mood actually feels like.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazylinda66 Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 I just started it myself but do not feel much smarter.. I will let you know if it does.. I am on 100 mg right now. Dr. is starting me off slow due to rash or other reactions.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domovoi Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 i take 200 but no other ACs and just seroquel which doesn't do anything to lamictal levels. i deal with cognitive difficulties pretty well and i think i can accept them as long as i don't sink into horrible depressions which are worst. interestingly, withiout seroquel it keeps me a liiiiitle bit hypo which i like. i think your problems might also be magnified by carbamazepine which is pretty heavy on cognition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Überpolarbear Posted August 17, 2010 Author Share Posted August 17, 2010 well.... FUCK IT. I'M OUT OF LAMICTAL. this stuff is pure crap. totally emotional and basicly crazy today after a single dose of 100mg last night (i had skipped it in the last few days)i'm on huge doses of carbamazepine (my level is so high my doc thinks i'm gonna die if he goes any farther) and 20mg of fucking ZYPREXA. this is so not normal. i think i'll go for being relaxed, maybe kind of down and dumb instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domovoi Posted August 18, 2010 Share Posted August 18, 2010 well.... FUCK IT. I'M OUT OF LAMICTAL. this stuff is pure crap. totally emotional and basicly crazy today after a single dose of 100mg last night (i had skipped it in the last few days)i'm on huge doses of carbamazepine (my level is so high my doc thinks i'm gonna die if he goes any farther) and 20mg of fucking ZYPREXA. this is so not normal. i think i'll go for being relaxed, maybe kind of down and dumb instead. whoa dude, amen to that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okiewan Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 I have been on Lamictal for like a year or so. I haven't noticed it making me smarter or whatever but I do find that if I miss a few, (I tend to forget the evening round) or I drink a little too much, I end up on the roller coaster for the next week. Last week I missed a few evening pills so I went from 200 mg to 100 mg for like 4 days, then I had a few too many Gin and Tonic's. On Saturday and Sunday I was very contemplative, by Monday I was flying high and manic doing all the destructive stuff I do (while my brain said "stop doing this you stupid fuck") By Tuesday I wanted to crawl under a rock and sleep, or run away and hang out with the bums under the overpass. I really don't know which kicked me off although I suspect that it is the missed doses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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