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I already take 600mg of Tegretol XR twice a day. I was also taking 200mg of Lamictal in the morning and 100mg of Lamictal at night but could not sleep to the point that it was literally driving me crazy. I decided to stop taking the night dose of Lamical and am already sleeping better. For twenty years I only took Tegretol or Tegretol XR and no other AED's. About five years ago, I started having more seizures. I figured out in the last year or so though that the reason I was having more seizures the last five years was because of hypoglycemia and sleep apnea. I completely changed my diet and dropped twenty five pounds and have been using a CPAP machine for the sleep apnea for just under a year now. Changing the diet to a high protein high fat diet made the biggest difference in controlling the seizures. Not how many AED's I was taking. Has anyone else reduced their dose of Lamictal or completely stopped taking Lamictal because it gave them insomnia?