Posted by kilo8 on July 19, 2015, at 20:29:44
I finally convinced my pdoc to let me try lamictal.
But I'm also scared especially because of the skin rashes. If I start and then get a rash then how do I know if it's really serious?I also don't know how safe lamictal is in general and what it does in the body and how many drug or food interactions it has. I only read in a book that it lowers folate. If it lowers folate then who knows what else it does. What if it's totally unhealthy and interferes with many chemical reactions inside of the body and depletes you of vitamins and other important things?
What also worries me is since you have to titrate up so slowly, how quickly can you get off it if you notice that it doesn't work? If you're on 150mg then how long does it take you to get to 0mg?
And how well can it be combined with antidepressants? I read in a book that it should not be combined with sertraline cause this raises the risk of steve johnson syndrome. i tried to find out more about this but found nothing. it's only in 1 psychopharmacology book which says that it should not be combined with sertraline but to me this is scary. i mean if sertraline should not be taken with lamictal then what if other drugs also shouldn't be taken with it and we don't know it yet!?
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