Lamictal and pimples

I have been on Lamictal for just under 1 year and only today realized that my increased acne is probably a side effect. The area around my jaw line is especially bad and it won't clear up. I've also gotten a few little pimples on my chest - I thought it was from going to the gym. My derm has tried oral meds and I'm about to try Accutane, but I really don't want to go to that extreme - Accutane scares me! I also noticed similar effects to the ones that others were talking about, too...forgetting words...forgetfulness...spelling...I want to go off the Lamictal. This just isn't worth it.

I was prescribed Lamictal strictly for migraine prevention. I'm up to 200mg/day and have been for 3 or 4 months now. I honestly don't think I see enough of a reduction in headaches to justify the breakouts. It's not severe but irritating to always have a couple of pimples when my skin is normally clear. Additionally, my skin is remarkably DRY, despite the acne.

Right as I got to my full dosage- nausea. It was just just like morning sickness. It got better after a month.

Now, I just figured out that is causing acne. I never had perfect skin, but it seemed to getting worse. I finally figured out that it was from the medicine when I started breaking out in bunches of little pimples on my back.

After reading other side effects, I guess I have been sweating a lot also. Especially at night. I have had to be careful about making sure I don't get too hot at work (like when wearing a suit jacket.)

Can't wait to see what is next. Maybe it is what is causing my sore neck.

pimples on my back on top of skin and under skin.

this site is great! i thought i was crazy, now i don't. my 4th month of lamictal and just hit the 100mg mark. at first i was taking it with a 30 mg of an antidepressant but i was irritable as helll!!! once i hit the 100mg mark, i got off the antidepressants and feel way better now just with lamictal alone.

initial side effects wre dizziness and insomnia but that went away. i've never had pimples and now i do. and last night i woke myself yelling having nightmares and haven't slept...

if you miss a dose you go nuts!

ARE THE SIDE EFFECTS WORTH IT...I FEEL WAY MORE CONTROLLED THAN BEFORE I STARTED TAKING THIS...

I was 32 years old when I started to take Lamictal.I am on it a year now.I have been getting pimples.I never thought it was the meds.I had a bad rash looking thing on my waist I should it to one DR.He said it was from my pants.Well now it spred to other places so I dont think its the pants.I never thought to look on this site till today.I now think I have to side effects whitch are the pimples's and the funny smell.I often say I smell Gas or Hotdogs.Never thought anything,but now I do.I dont have a PCP DR right now looking for a good one but in the mean time I have these effects I dont now what to make of it.------------------------Jenn

I've been on Lamictal for two months now @ 50mg/day. I am getting really bad acne, which I haven't had since I was 17. I'm 24 now. Just for anyone else who may be experiencing this, I have really small pimples appearing all over my forehead, cheeks, and, I hate to say it, chest. I've read others have experience this problem If any of you know of a drug that won't cause these side effects, please let me know. Thanks.

my daughter is on Lamictal for epilepsy...petit mal seizures. She started to develop skin disorder that a dermatologist says is achne. She has a swelling of her lips that he cant explain. Her neurologist says she isnt sold on our feeling it is lamictal related... The dermatologist has her on antihistameme and some lotion for her face... it is around her mouth and down the neck to her chest. She is 18...
The breaking out on her face isnt red or blotchy...it is like pimples but no heads and more like gritty feeling to it....
any ideas??