I'd really like to get an idea of whether any of you went back onto a medication that you had a Stephen Johnsons reaction to? Or a med that was suspected to have caused a Stephen Johnsons reaction.
I have two docs looking after my epilepsy: 1x psychiatrist, and 1x neurologist. The psychiatrist was, a year back, saying that we could rechallenge me on Lamictal if we weaned it on very slowly. (I had a Stephen Johnsons reaction on it about three years ago, and trouble is I was also on Topomax at the time so nobody knows which of the two caused the problem.) My neurologist says that rechallenging is far too dangerous and it isn't an option to try Lamictal or Topomax ever again, and that there was now a whole group of meds similar to them that I couldn't take either.
I so badly want to go back onto Lamictal because my seizure threshold is so terribly low. I barely care if I do get a reaction. I just would like to try it out.
I have two docs looking after my epilepsy: 1x psychiatrist, and 1x neurologist. The psychiatrist was, a year back, saying that we could rechallenge me on Lamictal if we weaned it on very slowly. (I had a Stephen Johnsons reaction on it about three years ago, and trouble is I was also on Topomax at the time so nobody knows which of the two caused the problem.) My neurologist says that rechallenging is far too dangerous and it isn't an option to try Lamictal or Topomax ever again, and that there was now a whole group of meds similar to them that I couldn't take either.
I so badly want to go back onto Lamictal because my seizure threshold is so terribly low. I barely care if I do get a reaction. I just would like to try it out.