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Well on 2-15-09 my sister in law died just shy of turning 39. She...

Posted at 11:12 AM on Feb 17, 2009 by niccomom, #39038
Well on 2-15-09 my sister in law died just shy of turning 39. She had severe depression, As of three years ago she began starving herself. She would go weeks without eating or drinking anything. She was in and out of the hospital through out the years. She started taking Lamictal six days prior to 2-15-09. The Dr. said she had made a mistake and wrote 100mg where it should had been 25mg. The doctor's later stated it didn't matter if they wrote 1mg it would have happened eventually. Now we had called her on her birthday three days prior to 2-15-09, and she said the medication made her feel weird. That night she fell to sleep and did not wake up but for only a brief minute in the hospital. After being asleep for a day she was rushed to the hospital were a battery of test were run. She had begun to have liver failure and sepsis. The doctor's had her airlifted to a hospital four hours away where liver specialist were available. She arrived there and withing a few hours her lungs collapsed, her kidneys began to fail, and she had two heart attacks where she finally died at 11:10 pm on 2-15-09. So I am here to make you aware. This is the side affect no one has talked about yet. Now she had no rash. She had weekend her system by not eating. Other than her depression she was OK. The doctor's don't know if she had an allergic reaction or not. The autopsy will be arrive in 40 days. With just some fatigue and weird feelings she continued to take the medication for the six days. I read on and on and I see so many symptoms, this would be a great time to evaluate with a profession because lets face it we really don't know the long term affects. It could be doing damage to your internal organs, or not. I feel if your body is showing you signs that are not normal than it is a good indication that your body is telling you that is cant tolerating it to well. So at least your getting the signs you might want to see what else is out there. As God is my witness we wanted her healthy and to not suffer so I really do have only good intentions for you all. The funeral is today.
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Reply 8 months ago on Mar 05, 2009 by disablednurse, #17730

I am so sorry for your loss. Whether your sister starved herself to death or not is not the answer to the question which is WHY did that doc order a new drug at 4 times the normal start dose??????? I presume your sister was on a few other meds as well. Psychotropic meds are powerful, even at low doses. That doc was INCOMPETENT and NEGLIGENT. If drug interactions/overdose isn,t the primary cause of death, it very likely is a CONTRIBUTING factor. Was the prescribing doc a psychiatrist? Probably not, a psychiatrist would know better. God bless your family.

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Reply 8 months ago on Mar 05, 2009 by niccomom, #17732

Thank you so much. We are just devastated, and in complete shock. We never thought she would die from the medication. Honestly we didn't think she would die from starvation. Call it naive whatever we just cant believe she is gone. We now know just how unhappy she was. We are happy she is no longer suffering.

I posted because, I couldn't believe all the people who were dealing with such awful side effects. I just feel this medication is not really that safe, and I was hoping maybe they would reconsider by trying something else. Maybe now I look at it as a hidden sabotage. I just don't wont anyone to die. I thank you so much in your comment I really do appreciate your feedback. Thank you again for taking time out of your day to post.

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