Posted by baseball55 on January 5, 2013, at 19:18:59
In reply to Lamictal Side effects, any insight please? Stiff., posted by gilmourr on January 5, 2013, at 5:12:08
I have suffered from recurrent aseptic meningitis (caused by a herpes virus) since I was a teenager. Believe me, you'll know it if you get it. High fever, headache that makes you feel like you wish someone would cut your head off, rigid neck and muscles, intense pain with any motion, photo-phobia, inability to hold down anything including water.
Lamictal's only really dangerous side effects are Steven's-Johnson syndrome (characterized by bad rash -- watch out for sores in mouth) and, rarely, severe, unrelenting headache.
I take lamictal. My doc is extremely cautious about a very gradual start up -- 25 mg per week until we reached 200 mg -- to watch for serious side effects.
I take it now with no side effects at all. It's like taking a vitamin in the morning. But it helps prevent these extreme descents in suicidality that were landing me in the hospital over and over again.
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