Lamotrigine Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: Lamictal, Lamictal Blue, Lamictal Orange (Show all)
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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| Treat my mood condition(s) | 308 |
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74 |
| Bipolar Disorder | 219 |
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70 |
| Other | 30 |
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10 | |
| Bipolar, rapid cycling | 29 |
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7 | |
| Depression | 28 |
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10 |
| Support another treatment | 16 |
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6 |
See all 622 patients currently taking Lamotrigine
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Lamotrigine. See all 28 dosages ►
| 2 100mg as needed | daily | monthly | 5 mg daily | 12.5 mg daily | 18.75 mg daily | 20 mg daily | 25 mg daily | 35 mg daily | 50 mg daily | 75 mg daily | 100 mg daily | 125 mg daily | 150 mg daily | 175 mg daily | 200 mg daily | 225 mg daily | 250 mg daily | 300 mg daily | 333 mg daily | 350 mg daily | 375 mg daily | 400 mg daily | 450 mg daily | 500 mg daily | 600 mg daily | 750 mg daily | 60000 mg daily | ||
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39
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40
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11
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116
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63
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162
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11
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66
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Side effects too severe
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36 | 36% |
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Did not seem to work
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31 | 31% |
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Doctor's advice
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29 | 29% |
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Other
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20 | 20% |
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Expense
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12 | 12% |
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Course of treatment ended
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7 | 7% |
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Personal research
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6 | 6% |
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Not indicated
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2 | 2% |
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Patient Evaluations
See all 159 patient evaluations
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- fragiletruth
- Sex: F
- Depression: 0
- Emotional: 0
- Compulsion: 0
- Anxiety: 0
- Mania: 2
- Physical: 0
- External Stress: Low
- 24 F
- Function: High
- Distress: Low
- See profile
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- fragiletruth
- 100 mg daily
- since Sep 18, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Treat my mood condition(s)
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Side Effects
Mild
- Advice/Tips Keep your dosage as low as possible. - 200mg is about where it stops being more helpful for depression. I had very vivid dreams, which had included mild hal... See full evaluation
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- devinrocksmyworld
- Sex: M
- 22 M
- See profile
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- devinrocksmyworld
- 100 mg daily
- since Sep 27, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Treat my mood condition(s)
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Side Effects
Mild
- Advice/Tips Don't take more than 100mg for Bipolar a day quickly. The side effects go from mild to moderate. The distorted sparkes went crazy, slight pains like growin... See full evaluation
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- onsatu
- Sex: F
- Depression: 1
- Emotional: 2
- Compulsion: 1
- Anxiety: 2
- Mania: 1
- Physical: 2
- External Stress: Severe
- 30 F
- Function: Moderate
- Distress: Low
- See profile
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- onsatu
- 150 mg daily
- since Jun 09, 2008
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Efficacy
Can't tell
for Treat my mood condition(s)
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Side Effects
Moderate
- Advice/Tips Just because some people have adverse or unexpected side effects doesn't mean you shouldn't try a new medication. It is also nice to have a support system a... See full evaluation
See all 159 patient evaluations
Report created on November 20, 2009.