Lamotrigine Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: Lamictal
What is Lamotrigine?
Lamotrigine is an anticonvulsant that is used alone or in combination with other medications to treat seizures in adults and children who are at least 2 years old. Lamotrigine is also used as maintenance treatment for bipolar I disorder.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Other | 5 | 0 | |||||
| Bipolar Disorder | 4 |
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3 | ||
| Epilepsy | 2 |
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1 | ||||
| Depression | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Support another treatment | 1 | 0 |
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Course of treatment ended
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1 | 100% |
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Patient Evaluations
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- Meta411
- Sex: M
- Mental Symptoms: severe
- Physical Symptoms: moderate
- Advanced Symptoms/Infections/Cancers: none
- 698
- VL 18k
- See profile
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- Meta411
- 300 mg daily
- since Oct 18, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Epilepsy
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips It seems to control partial and complex partial seizures greatly. I'm at a high enough dose now to see some effect in stabilizing depressive moods. See full evaluation
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- young-and-poz
- Sex: M
- Mental Symptoms: mild
- Physical Symptoms: none
- Advanced Symptoms/Infections/Cancers: none
- 633
- VL < 50
- See profile
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- young-and-poz
- 100 mg daily
- since Jul 29, 2009
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Efficacy
Can't tell
for Bipolar Disorder
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
See all 3 patient evaluations
Report created on November 22, 2009.