June 14th
2007
11:43 AM
I have just recently started taking Lamictal for my epilepsy. I am weaning off the drug phenytek. I am on 100 mg a day of Lamcital and next week that will increase to 200mg a day. Since I have started the Lamictal, my period has come two weeks early, I feel tired all the time and I feel dopey. I will be sitting in a room of people and they are all talking, but it's as if I am not actually present with them. I am nauseous alot and have terrible headaches particulary in the evening. My emotions seem to be eradic. I just don't feel myself.
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July 19th
2007
6:49 PM
Took mostly for seizures, but have been informally diagnosed with Bipolar II.
Had tremors at night, almost immediately, marked anxiety, weight loss, strange heat flashes, severe headaches (already have a migraine problem), complete w olfactory hallucinations (could have been breakthrough simple seizures, or headache auras).
Felt detached from myself and others. But the most disturbing symptom of all was auditory hallucinations. I have no history of psychosis and this only happened after starting Lamictal. Basically I could hear a constant chirping sound, subtle, but loud enough at night to keep me from sleeping unless my radio was playing to distract me from the sound. Could it have been a new form of seizure? Maybe, but regardless, the sounds started at the time I started this drug. Plus, according to a psychiatrist, I had no signs of psychosis, just the unexplained phantom sounds. One last possibility: Maybe an inner ear problem. Still would like to look into that.
People are right when they say this is still an experimental drug. If I had known what I was getting myself into, I never would have tried this drug to begin with. If any of you have had auditory hallucinations on this drug, without a history of any sort of hallucination or psychosis, PLEASE respond here and let me know about your experience. Thanks!
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