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.

I have had the cough night and day and it began when I began taking lamictal. I also developed some GERD (reflux etc.) and am taking something like nexium for that. I understand that you can have a bad night time cough from that condition. I have suspected the Lamictal; but my DR. and I don;t want me to go off the med. I am going to have some tests done this month to determine if I have developed asthma or vcd. If I have neither, I will go off Lamictal. Mary

my 8 year old daughter has been taking lamictal for 7 years it was only recently noted that her sickness was indeed due to her tablets not travel sickness as thought originally my daughter was introduced to epilim and the lamictal was getting reduced when the dr reduced the lamictal she stopped the sickness but it just caused her to take night time spasms so he took her off the epilim and put her lamictal back up to the original dose she is now feeling the sickly feelings again

OMG!!! I thought I was the only one and that it was all in my head! I too have suffered from flu-like symtomps (reason why I found this article searching for why I have felt this way since I started Lamictal)! I have had body aches, constant sore throat, around neck is tender, post nasal drip at night to where I feel like I'm choking so I can't always sleep because I feel like I am choking and constantly swallowing to get the mucus down, developed a small bump behing my ear near hairline....Now, that I have written all of this I am going OFF LAMICTAL! This is insane!

I am not sure if this is lamictal but...
I was on 400 mg. just a few weeks ago. I was experiencing this flu-like fatigue and a feeling of cold that was extreme. Sooo, so cold. I could get warm. So tired. Like gravity was pulling me to the ground. The weird thing is it happens every once in awhile. The other times, I am always tired but not to that extreme. I have to drink lots of coffee to get moving but at those times it dosen't matter. I can not do anything. I am stuck at home. It is actually horrible. I asked the nurse if I could try going down a little and she seemed offended. She said it was impossible that lamictal could do that. She told me to get off of it completely. Like in 6 days. If I didn't, then I needed to find someone else. I just told her I would. But, of course, I'm the dumb to get off this kind of medicine that fast. I am on week 2 and I just got to the first day of 200 mg. I'm not doing too bad. (Knock on wood) I'm so scared that thing might happen to me. Oh, I have diareha during those times too. I have bowel problems a lot. I've lost a lot of hair and my vision has gone down. I really liked lamictal when I first went on and I wanted to just see if I could like the lower dose. I don't know if it is lamictal????

Sorry, I could NOT get warm is what I mean. And I am on Lamictal, by the way, for PTSD/Anxiety.