I am 21 and recently started taking lamictal along with risperdal. About two weeks after starting the drugs and increasing my dosage slowing I started getting a really bad pain in what felt like my lungs, then traveled to my heart. I started thinking I was having a heart attack or something so I went to the doctor who did an EKG and said my heart was normal and that it's just anxiety. That was a general physician though and not a specialist. I alerted my prescribing psychiatrist and he said chest pain is a side effect of lamictal but to keep taking it if it is helping me emotionally. It has been about a week and half since I have been having these pains and I am starting to kind of freak out. Is this going to be constant on these drugs or should I go get a chest Xray or something done. It is weird because I have no cough, and thought it may be heartburn but heartburn medications from over-the-counter are not helping. It doesn't get worst necessarily when I inhale or exhale either. What is going on?
Lamictal - I have been having really bad chest pain that feels like it is my lungs and heart?
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- 25 Dec 2014 by ziggamar
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- 25 December 2014
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- lamictal, risperdal, heart disease, pain, dosage, heart, chest pain, chest, lungs
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balbanese
25 Dec 2014
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I would love to take your advice and totally would if I was financially stable. I can't afford to keep going to the doctor and it being christmas eve, christmas tomorrow and me not being back in the country (I'm in latin america where hospitals arn't exactly top notch more-less insurance accepting I don't know if I should be worrying or just start tapering myself off limictal and/or start an antibiotic. Just so many unknowns. All I know is it is a sharp pain that radiates from my lungs to my heart through out the day and I had a normal EKG last week. I also have a brain tumor that is benign I found out about this year that costs me thousands of dollars and my insurance (Golden Rule) raised my deductible and barely helps me with anything. I feel hopeless. So pain in my body right now and on top of that my anxiety/depression hasn't gotten any better since starting these meds. I need some advice, I know you may not be a medial profesional but anything helps. thanks!!