I just started on Lamictal,feeling weird,is this normal?

26 Sep 2009

Sounds to me that you are having anxiety attacks. I would take some tea like sleepytime and this will calm you down. You might check in with a health food store.

Best WIshes.

I do not think the flu shot has anything to do with your problems

27 Sep 2009

I have been on many different medications in the past 13 years for panic attacks, anxiety, OCD, PTSS, depression, and after all that time it wasn't until this past January that I started taking Celexa and in combination with therapy I have never felt better emotionally. Maybe you should talk to your doctor about trying something else, especially if it's been a year since you started Lexpro. I have taken Lexapro, Paxil, Abilify, Ativan, Kolonapin, and Prozac all at some point in the last 13 years and Celexa has worked wonders. Obviously everyone is different but it may be a possibility. And the therapy part is crucial, even if you think you don't need it you usually find out something about yourself that truely was adding to the anxiety even if you had no idea it was there. Good Luck, let me know how things turn out :)

13 Dec 2010

i was on this medication for over a year. it never helped me with my depression but i did not have any of your symptoms

30 Aug 2011

Hi greeneyez30,
I've been on Lamictal for a long time. I'm no doctor, but I've been on meds for depression, panic disorder, and ocd long enough to know any kind of meds of this type can typically make you feel "funny." Gosh, inability to concentrate, inability to understand things people say that should be clear to me, feeling dizzy, "whoozy" headed, sleepy, so many side effects to the meds. Don't know if that helps or not hun. Hope it does. Sometimes the meds used to treat your symptoms cause the very thing you're being treated for. Catch 22.

6 Dec 2011

8 Feb 2012

I stopped getting flu shots because every time I would get one, I would feel exactly as you described... When I was prescribed Lamictal(5 years ago), there were some side effects, but they didn't last more then a week or two if I remember correctly. I would bet it was the flu shot. You don't get the flu from a flu shot, but you can get a virus that is very similar to influenza. Everything you described basically is how I would feel whenever I would get a flu vaccine. I haven't had the flu in years now. (knock on wood)

8 Feb 2012

Well, greeneyez30, I've been taking Lamictal for 5 years and have noticed that if I take all 400 mg at once, I get dizzy(not that I'm not already) and light-headed. I sandwich Lamictal in between bites. Like a half banana and one lamictal, then the other half banana and another Lamictal. Yeah, I wonder if it was the flu shot. Hmm! Your symptoms don't sound like Lamictal. But, you know how it is, what works for me, may not work for you. Keep in touch with your Dr. He'll want to know about the effect Lamictal is having on you, as well as the other meds your taking. Who knows? Maybe the combination isn't right. Anyway, Darlin, God bless you and may He find the meds that work for you. I understand what your going through. I'm 62.