I have been experiencing a flu like symptom for over a year now. ...

Yes my daughter had this with Lamictal. She had severe body/muscle aches all over. She couldn't move without hurting. She curled up for 3 days into a little ball. She is usually quite athletic. She had a sore throat too. Then two weeks later she had the same thing but this time with fever. She said that seizures were better than the way she felt on this drug. The doctors suggested we take her off.
I later found out that the rash can start in the throat.
Doesn't sound like your side effects are healthy.

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yes! but not for as long as you...sinus drip keeping me up at nite from choking...naseu and complete exhasution probably from lack of sleep. did you doc do blood tests? how old are you? i'm gonna be 43 beginning of feb. email me we can chat more and compare notes and hopefully make this GO AWAY!
Sherri ~ uonleeliveonce@aol.com

i don't know if my reply went thru...email me at uonleeliveonce@aol.com
same symptoms...post nasal keeping me up at nite from choking nausea...tired all the time...lets talk maybe we can figure it out..i am a 43 (soon to be) female.
sherri

Actually no, Lamictal has helped me tremendously. However I do take two medications and Lamictal is the medication in which I take in the morning hours. The other medication is to be taken in the evening hours.
I hope this can help you in some way, at first I was taking both meds at once and would be so tired, but I couldn't sleep something was keeping me up though. Now I am under control though, maybe that can help you though. My doctor said that Lamictal is capable of doing this though.

I have had the same issue! I am on only 100 mg a day but about 2 weeks after I started on 50mg I started having a TON of post nasal drip, a sore throat (that was really bad for a while and then eased up and is now only mild), and a cough at night. Has anyone else had the nighttime cough. I know part of it may be contributed to by the dry winter air, but I have never had this problem until I started with Lamictal.

YES, I have had most of these symptoms. I am dizzy and extremely NASEAU, I have went to the doctors and everything is normal. I take only 100mg a day but, I am so tired all the time, absolutely worn out. But I am also on prozac 20mg a day. I thought maybe it could be that but i'm not sure. If anyone else is etremely tired and has naseau please reply. Thanks Erin

I just started Lamictal and I have weened myself up to 200mg over the past 5 weeks. I felt wonderful up until the 3rd day that I was taking the 200mg. I have such severe body aches and chills, I have to take 400mg of Ibuprofen to feel normal. I know that I am not sick because I have no other symptoms and was just sick about 3 weeks ago. I am going to wait a couple of days and then talk to my neuro. It stinks because most anticonvulsants cause severe acne and brain fog. This has been wonderful up until this point. Lamictal is known for side effects like flu-symptoms, body aches and chills.