I kept going down in any case. Mine was gradually increased by 75 mg at a time.

It is now at 300 mg which seems to work for me.

Good luck, sweetie!!

thank!!

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Each person is different. If you dont' feel like you are at your optimal level, talk with your PDoc about your reasons. You both are responsible for your health. And I am sure if you want to up it, he/she will up it.

You know you have too much if you get a rash. That's what happened to me at 25mg... sucks, but now on trileptal.

lamictal needs the uttmost patience

slowly ramping it up due to the potentially harmfull side effects means that we need to be so, so, so patient..

When I was at 400mg I was a walking zombie. Definitely too much Lamictal. pdoc cut my dosage and it's a lot better now!

Got upped to 150 due to major depression and agitation. So far it seems to be working better.

My first go around with lamictal was upped too quickly and I couldn't function (100mg). The second time around, I felt alright(50mg).

100mg is not a maintainance dose yet -- the average dose is 200mg...but everyone is different. you can look up Lamictal at www.WebMD.com or at www.drugs.com Both are excellent websites for drug info.

I'm on 100mgs of lamictal..no rash..depression is much better, don't know if Dr. will increase mine or not.
I';ve been on it 2 1/2 months..since end of Nov. 07

i havent been on lamictal for a whole month yet, my body reacts very quickly to any medication. ive noticed a huge diff. in much better now. after the 4 week starter im going to 100 mg, i told him im doing great except for the increase in anxiety, im almost sever and my irritabilty had increased and i get aggressive at times when i get stressed, even over the smallest things that really dont matter. he said increasing will help and to help keep me from swithching or being mixed. i told him that the only depression i feel now is just general kind, from normal everyday problems, i dont get depressed per say but i do get sad. ill give it a try and see what happens. atleast now i feel much better, not deeply depressed to the point of blob status. i have my emotions back too and my appetite has went from none to better, still not normal yet tho. he decided not to add anything yet until we see how im doing at 100 mg, i guess thats good idea. my headaches, bad to start with since i was young has gotten worse, believe it or not he told me to take excedrin migraine, and at the same time, to lower my caffiene but i dont drink much to start with, but excedrin migraine has caffiene, which helps headaches but can also cause them, duh, what he thinking. besides are we to limit our ibu and asprin on lamictal cause of potential liver/kidney problems. im gonna go see a neurologist for the headaches, again, for help. ive had scans b4 and returned no results. i hope increasing my lamictal to 100 doesnt make me get the rash because this pill has done so much for me in the low dose i dont want to have to go off it cause it was increased. cross your fingers for me.

chrystalb...
If I were you I would keep my Lamictal at the dose you are currently at and ask your doc for something for anxiety like BuSpar,Cymbalta, Wellbutrin..They work specifically for anxiety and that way you are not upping the Lamictal.Lamictal is not for anxiety,so upping it doesn't make sense to me.good luck.Let me know how you do.

I would talk to your dov about any symptoms your still having and see what they think of uping it. My doc did my dosage slowly in small increments -i was lowered from 250 to 200 because at 250 I felt absolutely nothing at all-i functioned but was on automatic.

Hi- This is my first day here so bear with me.. I have just increased my dosage of lamictal from 200mg to 250mg and I am itching like crazy. No major rash just some little bumps on the areas? Should I be worried or is this normal?

gina:

call your pdoc monday and let him know of the itching symptom.