Is Lamictal right for me? I get terrible side effects if I increase or decrease it?

Well my daughter was taking the 25mg dosage twice a day. She had side effects for 3 months. It took her a while to tell me. I had to keep onto her about it. She actually wasn't listening to me to begin with. You know how 13 year olds can be lol. When she finally actually listened to me about the side effects she realized she had been having them for a while. The first time I used drugs.com was to check if she could take over the counter cold meds. Nope none not Tylenol not advil you can't take anything like that with this medicine. It interacts with everything!! I do know if you are under 16 yrs old Lamictal/Lamotrigine it is not approved or safe for those kids who do not suffer from a certain type of seizures. She was always foggy like on it. Her grades fluctuated bad during this time. She acted like she could care less about anything and everything. She was in a constant state of being zoned out from the world. It can cause binding of the eyes or other mellinan rich tissues. No I don't know what that means. It changes your eye sight. She also complained of her back and extremities ( legs or arms) hurting all the time. Her back hurt in two areas. One area was her kidneys. It does affect the kidneys. She had dilated pupils constantly on it. It was like going to the eye Dr and having your eyes dialated!! I gave it about 7 days to see if it was from a combination of it and her anxiety medication Hydroxyzine. Then I stopped the hydroxyzine (as needed anyway) to see if it was one or the other alone. It was the Lamictal. Do you still feel the fog affect when taking your normal dosage 125mg?? If you don't then I wouldn't increase the dosage but that's just me. If you do experience the fog effect no matter what dosage you take I'd think back to when I first had this side effect up to now and if it's been longer than the normal 6 weeks of side effects stopping I would stop taking it via Dr advisement first of course. Now with my daughter my pharmacist told me to take her off of it now to not wait to take her to the Dr she had an appt in a few days anyway. The pharmacist scared the crap out of me. It was all at once "GET HER OF IT NOW!! DON'T GIVE IT TO HER ANYMORE!! DO NOT WAIT FOR DR APPROVAL!!" Talk about flipping me out. Anyway I hope this helped. Good luck. Oh she is on Trileptal and she is doing very well on it. You can't take it with abilify it lowers the amount your body uptakes. Aslo if you have low blood pressure don't take it it lowers you sodium levels. If you have low white (both types) blood cell or red blood cell counts do not take it. If you're diabetic with high blood sugar seriously do not take trileptal. That's the sdie effects of it some anyway. My daughter takes abilify too the Dr looked to see if they interacted with each other and said no. Well I found otherwise on here. At least this Dr did try to do her job right. She actually did look unlike all the others she had that left. She also knew Lamictal isn't safe for kids with Bipolar Disorder under 16. She's awesome compared to the other 2 who left and the 1 at another office. I hope this helps!! Oh yeah trileptal it same type of medicine as Lamictal but it's somewhat safer. She's not had the foggy side effect. She is a normal 13 yr old mouthy smarta** brat hahaha but she's my brat. Talk to your Dr for sure.

You are not supposed to adjust the dose at all except to build up to a therapeutic level. It has to be introduced from tiny amounts as it can cause a serious condition which presents as a rash, it can be fatal. Once you have reached the correct dosage, 100, 200, 300mg or whatever feels right then you stay at that exact amount.

I had a bad situation, I got a rash after 3 years but it may have not been caused by lamictal. Anyway, I came off of it and it was a nightmare. I went back on 100mg but am having issues with confusion, mania and lack of motivation. I am talking to my Dr about going back up to a much higher dose again to see if it stabilizes.