MAB from what I've been reading, some of the common bad side effects of Lamictal are hair loss and insomnia, and I don't need any help with insomnia AT ALL. Apologies for hijacking your threadbut have you had insomnia or hair loss with this drug? And I don't know why she wrote 'intractable' because I put that question to her directly and she said she had no way of knowing if we will resolve my seizures and that we had many drug options left to try (and that I wasn't on a very high dose of what I was currently on :-()
I have been on lamictal for YEARS. Way before I had epilepsy I was using it as a mood stabilizer for Bipolar at 200 mgs 2xs a day. I now am up to 300mgs 2xs a day for epilepsy as of a few month ago when my blood test showed I was low and I was having seizures. I have never had problems with insomnia or hair loss on lamictal. It has been one of the few anti epileptics I have taken (which have been several used as mood stabalizers over the years) that I have had hardly any problems with.
