Posted by MattA on December 26, 2003, at 8:00:57
Hi,
Yesterday, by accident, I found out that the bitter taste of the Lamictal Dispers tablets is completely masked by eating some chocolate cake before drinking the water with the dissolved tablets. I can't try if this extends to other kinds of meds, but I assume it will work for any other med that tastes bitter. Probably doesn't have to be cake either, but that's just what I tried :-) Thought it might be helpful to mention this for others.
Taste never was such a big deal to me, but somehow this changed a while ago to the point that now I'm (physically) unable to take one of my meds (Movicolon) without masking it strongly. I used to be able to take this med without any trouble in the past. Has anyone experienced such an unexplicable change as well at some point?
I'm even wondering whether the change might be caused by the Lamictal itself as a weird side effect. All of this started roughly when I got to the higher doses of Lamimctal (500 mg now).
Since I have the same problem with Lithium, any helpful hints on masking its taste are very much appreciated. I'm now taking it with orange juice pulp, but it's not perfect.
Thanks,
MattA
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