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Anti-seizure meds anyone?

girlbassplayer
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Posted on March 14, 2008, 7:17 pm

I talked to my psychiatrist and she told me just to write things down. I'm going to ask if anyone has experience with anti-seizure meds, specifically Clonazepam and Lamotrigine, because I've been experiencing really weird things.

Here's a short list:
-stuttering my words
-forgetting what I'm saying/doing/etc half-way through something
-slurring my words
-sharper sounds (agitating, certain sounds seem louder like sibilance and such)
-tunnel vision
-tactile hallucinations
-certain colours are brighter

Those are the ones that bother me every day all day, along with the "shakes and quakes". I'm always shaking and suddenly I'll just "quake" and my whole body basically snaps back. It's hard to explain. It's like having a mini-seizure without actually having a seizure. It seems like my entire body, every muscle, just tenses and then I go back to just shaking.

My hands are constantly restless. So much so that when I am typing, right now for instance, I am missing keys and having to go back and fix what I've wrote because my hands are trying to move so much faster than I am thinking.

Anyways... if anyone has had some of this happen? I'm very frustrated right now. I'm ready to freakin snap. I'm irritated by myself.

bloojeans
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Posted on March 14, 2008, 9:15 pm

lamotrigine is Lamictal, i just checked webmd and it is. i have some of the same symptoms, i'm not sure about sibilance but my mom was snapping gum the other day and i sorely wanted to punch her in the back of the head. i'm on 250 mgs as of tomorrow and am not looking forward to it. i think it's causing more problems than it's "fixing"... especially seeing your post. i wish they wouldn't use meds like this on patients with mental illness. it's anti-seizure, what is supposedly the benefit?

"Never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and defeat you with their experience..." ~Anon.~

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Posted on March 14, 2008, 10:05 pm

Sarah:If you are a seizure pt, have they tried you on tegrital or dilantin? Not a big fan of lamictal personally... Just my opinion Smiling

girlbassplayer
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Posted on March 14, 2008, 10:25 pm

Bloo: the meds are actually really working. I can see why they use them and they are beneficial for leveling out moods. It just sucks that they have so many side effects.

Grizzly: I take the Clonazepam for anxiety and the Lamictal for stabilizing my mood. I was on carbamazepine/tegretol about a year ago but it wasn't working for me. Made me really sick.

Right now I am on 400mg and my psychiatrist wants to take it up to 600mg since my mood is so crappy right now and they have to basically keep me sedated/tranquilized on Clonazepam to function.

I'm just worried about these side effects. I'm on Seroquel and Cipralex in addition, but I am worrying that either this is going to cause damage or that I'm having addition problems with tardive dyskinesia. However, this doesn't seem very tardive-like... some of the symptoms, sure, but the rest seems so weird.

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Posted on March 15, 2008, 5:14 am

You're also going to want to look at Trileptal. It's a later version of Tegretal. It has far fewer side effects.

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bloojeans
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Posted on March 15, 2008, 8:52 am

i don't know if the med is working for me, i honestly don't see any diff betwixt before lamictal and now... there prolly are, just i can't see them.

"Never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and defeat you with their experience..." ~Anon.~

Stupidity, simply a part of the human condition...

"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst." Anon.

girlbassplayer
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Posted on March 15, 2008, 9:45 am

Cereal Killer wrote:

You're also going to want to look at Trileptal. It's a later version of Tegretal. It has far fewer side effects.

It has the extra oxygen, if I'm not mistaken. For some reason my psychiatrists both current and from the past have preferred carbamazepine.

I'm alright with the Lamictal - it is helping... I just don't like whats going on.

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Posted on March 15, 2008, 2:25 pm

girlbassplayer wrote:

Cereal Killer wrote:

You're also going to want to look at Trileptal. It's a later version of Tegretal. It has far fewer side effects.

It has the extra oxygen, if I'm not mistaken. For some reason my psychiatrists both current and from the past have preferred carbamazepine.

I'm alright with the Lamictal - it is helping... I just don't like whats going on.

Up until two months ago it wasn't generic. It is now

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money --- only for wanting to keep your own money.---Joseph Sobran

girlbassplayer
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Posted on March 15, 2008, 4:51 pm

Are you sure? I'm pretty sure it's been generic here for a while because I know some other people who have taken it for a variety of reasons. My therapists just seem to like carbamazepine for some unspoken reason.