Lamictal increase

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I am now increasing my lamictal dosage from 200x100 to 200x400 in a couple of weeks after having a major tonic clonic seizure which made me completely spaced out for a week feeling like my body belonged to another person. I have not had any myoclonic seizures since increasing the medicine which is just fantastic since these seizures makes me really scared of getting a tonic clonic.
I am now having dizzy spells, sometimes blury vision, some anxiety(had some of it before increasing), can´t find the right words and even worse memory than I used to have. I know this is normal and especially after increasing lamictal at this speed. But my question is: when do the side effects calm down again? I can live with it for a while.
 
Um... a sudden increase like that can exaggerate the side effects until your body and nervous system adjust properly.

It's entirely possible that the side effects could reduce once your body has adjusted to the new, higher dose.

However, on the flip side, it's also possible that these could be a permanent thing.
Give it some time, maybe another month and a half, to see which direction the side effects are heading in. If they maintain, then it might be better to lower the dose and add a second medication to compensate for the lower dose, rather than keeping it at a high dose and having major side effects.

Really this is a situation where "Time will tell the story", so to speak. Give it some time, and rate how the effects of it are. An easy way to do this is to keep a journal and just document the side effects each day. I'd also rate them with numbers, IE: 1 meaning "This isn't so bad, I can easily deal with this" and 10 being "Get me off these meds ASAP. This is awful and I can't live like this any more".

Then, in a month to a month in a half, look back through the journal and compare how you've rated them side effects and see if you can see an improvement or not. :)
 
What Silat said lol. Sorry to hear you've been going through a rough patch. I've recently found an improvement when I was instructed to double my Lamictal from 200mg to 400mg daily. Luckily i rarely get tonic clonics these days but never say never right. Good luck.
 
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