Lamotrigine Advanced Seizure Medication | Epilepsy Foundation
2023年10月17日 · Lamictal (lah-MIK-tal) is the brand name used in the United States, Canada, the UK, Australia, and other countries for the seizure medicine lamotrigine (lah-MO-trih-jeen). Lamictal is available in generic form as lamotrigine. Lamotrigine, also known as Lamictal, is a medication used to treat several different types of seizures.
Seizure Medication List | Epilepsy Foundation
Before receiving a prescription, your healthcare team will discuss side effects, any allergies you may have, and the type of medication that is right for you based on your seizure type or epilepsy syndrome.
lamictal causing headaches? - Epilepsy Foundation
2005年6月5日 · Not affected myself (I take Lamictal/Lamotrigine, sometimes causing problems with sleep) but some lit I have describes a survey of 1100 patients taking L , a test which included some taking placebos, suggesting that headaches are the second most common side-effect (29 %), after dizziness(38%).
Anyone have good results with Lamictal | Epilepsy Foundation
2005年1月24日 · Gosh seems like a lot of folks have not had good results with Lamictal. My son is changing from Tegritol to Lamictal (a long process). He is currently at 300 mg a day Lamictal and will have a blood test this week to see if he is at the right dosage. He needs to be at a 3 before we start the slow taper off. The main reason to change is because of the cognitive side effects of Tegritol. My son ...
Long Term Lamictal Use and Side Effects | Epilepsy Foundation
2006年8月14日 · I've used Lamictal for 13 years - for 12 years I thought about suicide and taking my own life every hour of every day - I planned how I'd do it, made lists of the music I wanted played at my funeral, pondered different ways, gassing myself in the car (use a vacuum cleaner hose) crashing my motorcycle into a tree, over a cliff, into an oncoming car. many times I would sit there with 120 codeine ...
Anyone on Lamictal XR with chronic sinus congestion?
2010年11月9日 · Has anyone experienced chronic sinus congestion while on Lamictal? I take 200mg (XR) a day -- and have only been taking it for 6 weeks. But since the beginning I haven't been able to breath out of my nose! All of the other side effects have seemed to have gone away except for this. It is driving me crazy. My nose gets so clogged that my nose actually hurts if I press on the sides. I have tried ...
Lamictal withdrawal or depression? | Epilepsy Foundation
2012年4月11日 · I am a 17 year old girl. I was on Lamictal for 4 years for absence seizures due to CAE that has now progressed to JME, therefore I do not need to be on Lamictal anymore. I weaned off from 600 mg, dropping 200 each month. The jump from 200 mg …
Blood Testing for Seizure Medicine | Epilepsy Foundation
Blood tests are often checked before treatment with an antiepileptic drug (AED) begins. These results can then be compared with blood tests that are done after you have been taking the AED for some time, to see if there have been any changes.
How Long Until Seizure Medicine Works? | Epilepsy Foundation
A medicine's half-life is the time it takes for its level in the blood to be reduced by one-half. The half-life of each seizure medicine depends on how quickly it is broken down and gotten rid of from the body.
Memory Loss & Lamictal - Epilepsy Foundation
2011年8月12日 · Hi everyone. I'm Kat, I've been active on this board for a while but mostly in the Women With Epilepsy forum. I was going to post this in there but I feel like it should be more open to everyone since it's not focusing on women only issues. Since starting Lamictal almost two years ago, I have noticed some fluctuations with my mood as well as my ability to concentrate, that showed mostly as I ...
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