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psychiatrist prescribed Lamictal; difficult child ranted all the way home
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 579705" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I had that "outside of my body" feeling on Lithium and it scared me so much I made my one and only semi-suicide attempt by taking a bottle of Valium. I never did any drugs...it's just the way Lithium can make you feel and it's worse than the disease in my opinion. I've never taken Lamictal but my son did. I heard it is better with less side effects, however he was on a very high dose and he got double vision and an unstable gait and had to go off of it. He got into a major car crash on it. BUT he was on a VERY high dose...800 mgs....grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Give it a try. There are side effects to all psychotrophic medications. Some are tolerable and worth it because you feel better (when I take Paroxatene, it makes me hungry and I haven't been thin since starting it, but it helps me). It's a big experiment with medications, and it can take a long time before finding medications that both help the problem and don't make a person a zombie. I hope the Lamictal works, if Son is willing to try it. Have psychiatrist start low and not up him to an unreasonably high level. Since I have a different perspective, I would take that side effect complaint seriously. I felt much better off Lithium than on it. I'm sure I seemed like I was better because I was so zombied out and sedated, but I was actually worse.</p><p></p><p>The result of taking medications that make you feel worse COULD be that they refuse to take medications as they get older. I did not make that choice, but a lot of adults are non-compliant often because they don't like the way the medications make them feel. The right medications shouldn't make anyone feel "weird." I also feel that if your child is using recreational drugs, the psychotrophic medication is pretty worthless (sigh).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 579705, member: 1550"] I had that "outside of my body" feeling on Lithium and it scared me so much I made my one and only semi-suicide attempt by taking a bottle of Valium. I never did any drugs...it's just the way Lithium can make you feel and it's worse than the disease in my opinion. I've never taken Lamictal but my son did. I heard it is better with less side effects, however he was on a very high dose and he got double vision and an unstable gait and had to go off of it. He got into a major car crash on it. BUT he was on a VERY high dose...800 mgs....grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Give it a try. There are side effects to all psychotrophic medications. Some are tolerable and worth it because you feel better (when I take Paroxatene, it makes me hungry and I haven't been thin since starting it, but it helps me). It's a big experiment with medications, and it can take a long time before finding medications that both help the problem and don't make a person a zombie. I hope the Lamictal works, if Son is willing to try it. Have psychiatrist start low and not up him to an unreasonably high level. Since I have a different perspective, I would take that side effect complaint seriously. I felt much better off Lithium than on it. I'm sure I seemed like I was better because I was so zombied out and sedated, but I was actually worse. The result of taking medications that make you feel worse COULD be that they refuse to take medications as they get older. I did not make that choice, but a lot of adults are non-compliant often because they don't like the way the medications make them feel. The right medications shouldn't make anyone feel "weird." I also feel that if your child is using recreational drugs, the psychotrophic medication is pretty worthless (sigh). [/QUOTE]
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