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    <title>Lamictal Side Effects: I have been experiencing a flu like symptom for over a year now. </title>
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    <description>I have been experiencing a flu like symptom for over a year now. They started about 2 months after I began taking 350mg of lamictal a day. Symptoms include exhaustion, headache, soar/achy throat, post-nasal drip, TONS of nausea, lack of digestion &amp; regurgit</description>
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      <title>Yes my daughter had this with Lamictal. She had severe body/muscl</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:16:45 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description>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 sa</description>
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      <title>yes! but not for as long as you...sinus drip keeping me up at nit</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:28:59 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.medications.com/effect/view/26098?item=4092</link>
      <description>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 co</description>
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      <title>i don't know if my reply went thru...email me at uonleeliveonce@a</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:30:11 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description>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
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      <title>Actually no, Lamictal has helped me tremendously. However I do ta</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:08:25 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.medications.com/effect/view/26098?item=4183</link>
      <description>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 fir</description>
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      <title>I have had the same issue!  I am on only 100 mg a day but about 2</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:35:50 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.medications.com/effect/view/26098?item=4544</link>
      <description>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 any</description>
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      <title>YES, I have had most of these symptoms. I am dizzy and extremely </title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:49:37 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description>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 </description>
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      <title>I just started Lamictal and I have weened myself up to 200mg over</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:03:10 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.medications.com/effect/view/26098?item=9314</link>
      <description>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</description>
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      <title>I have had the cough night and day and it began when I began taki</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:49:34 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.medications.com/effect/view/26098?item=14311</link>
      <description>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 su</description>
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      <title>my 8 year old daughter has been taking lamictal for 7 years it wa</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:03:55 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.medications.com/effect/view/26098?item=17598</link>
      <description>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 </description>
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      <title>OMG!!! I thought I was the only one and that it was all in my hea</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:48:14 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.medications.com/effect/view/26098?item=19307</link>
      <description>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, a</description>
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      <title>I am not sure if this is lamictal but...
I was on 400 mg. just a</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:10:40 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.medications.com/effect/view/26098?item=20335</link>
      <description>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.  Th</description>
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      <title>Sorry, I could NOT get warm is what I mean.  And I am on Lamictal</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:11:45 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.medications.com/effect/view/26098?item=20336</link>
      <description>Sorry, I could NOT get warm is what I mean.  And I am on Lamictal, by the way, for PTSD/Anxiety.  </description>
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