adderall and lamictal

She had been on Adderall for ADHD, went into a hypermanic event and was involuntarily committed for treatment. After her release she went back to her original Psychiatrist who again prescribed Adderall for her. Is Adderall ever used for bipoplar disorder. Everything I have read says no. How can I convince her Dr. to not prescribe it anymore? Please help us.

(Lamictal, Norco and Ativan for sleeping) His question to me was why I was on it to begin with? He stated his concern was the Lamictal and Adderall combination, as Lamictal is a downer and Adderall is a upper. I'm not stupid I do know the difference. I showed the pharmacist the schedule I have for the Norco and Lamictal , I can take those both at the same time with no ill affects. But he couldn't give me a answer how to fit the Adderall in the mix.

I've been smoking marijuana for about 5 years. I've been diagnosed bipolar for about 2 years. I recently had a really bad reaction to pot. REALLY bad. I almost killed myself, screamed at my friends, and vomited for 2 days. No one else that smoked it had a bad reaction. I haven't had a medication change recently. I'm on lamictal, seroquel, wellbutrin, cymbalta, and adderall. I don't know what happened. It wasn't laced or else everyone would have gotten sick.

I have been taking a number of medications since I turned 21 in 2008, the first being Prozac, Adderall, and Seroquel. I was only prescribed Seroquel for as long as my doctor wanted to "observe possible Bipolar symptoms".... after about 3 months he took me off Seroquel. After years of continued difficulty with bouts of depression, anger/irritability, sleep, I saw a new doctor in 2015 who prescribed Abilify 5mg along with Adderall.

t anymore,it was probably the wellbutrin with the adderall and I also have on and off bulimia/anorexia still and wellbutrin is not suggested for bulimics because of the increased risk of seizures. For the past three weeks though,I've been having a little tickle/spasm in the left part of my brain, it's not too painful though. Any ideas on what that is? I got a CAT scan and they told me I didn't have an aneurysm.

His doctor had him on 10mg of Adderall and 15mg of Lamictal, and i see no change in his behavior=( The doctor has him on 10mg of adderall and 15 mg of Lamictal and i still have not seen a change in his behavior.

Mood episodes have two effects on brains. The first and most important one is that they significantly impact executive function and immediate recall (digit span)... which means that it is much harder to process information. Unfortunately this effect is the slowest one to respond to treatment.

I told my p-doc I was still depressed and she suggested that we lower Lamictal instead of increasing Wellbutrin (which she said I was maxed out on). I have been a proponent of 'less medication', so I am unsure of what to ask at my upcoming new psychiatrist appointment. Since graduating, I haven't spoken with any t-doc or p-doc in around 8 months. For the last year or so I was taking 300mg/day Wellbutrin Xr and also 200mg lamictal. I have also taken Buspar for around a year.

I have been taking Adderall for several years and I will admit that the pills put me in a "hypomanic" position BUT they allow me to get things done. I have a highly depressive form of BP and rarely ever go into any mania (my natural mania consists mostly of obsessive thoughts) so I just lie in bed most days.

So, suddenly I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, taken off the lamictal and effexor I was taking in place of the Adderall, put on depakote, celexa, clonazepam, trazadone, and cymbalta, then told that Adderall is not a pain medication and I should never have been on it in the first place. Well, I trusted her, but I started feeling the absolute worst I ever had in my life, both mentally and physically.

But everything all started after I did adderall in college and Has been there ever since and I hate it. If I could go back I would and never experiment with psychoactives..... Thanks.

I am also on adderall 20mg. I rarely take this as I currently don't have a job and prefer to just be myself (makes me feel like a robot). I was also prescribed rozarem for my concurring chronic insomnia. (sleep every 2-3 days on average.) I was off all medication for roughly 8 months and my mania and manic-depressive mood swings just started to become too much. I still feel like crap 24/7 even on 75mg lamictal. I am unsure as what to do. Any advice would be appreciated.

progressively stop medications, especially lamictal and topamax, verapamil and vicodin.

I am Type 1, rapid cycling, bipolar. I currently am taking Symbyax, Lamictal, and Adderall. I take ativan as needed, but I find it doesn't do much for me and I often have crying bouts after use. I was thinking of augmenting with an edible here and there as needed instead of the Ativan, butI can't find any good information pertaining to potential drug interactions. I rarely get hypomanic, more often a mixed state, and I never get manic. Can anyone help me out?

So I switched from lamictal and buspar to lithium about 2 weeks ago and I haven’t gotten any better, I’m actually worse and still get diarrhea but now it’s from the Lithium! Today I decided to go back on Lamictal and mix it with my Lithium after reading a lot of positive threads on the combo on the net. Today: 100mg lamictal/ 900mg lithium Next week: Going to go back to 200mg lamictal/900mg lithium Today is the best day I’ve had in weeks.

it seemed to help me ok. not totally, but ok. i was taking 100mg Lamictal and 150mg Wellbutrin daily. my deep depression(suicidal thoughts) mostly went away,but many problems still exist. like lack of focus,direction in life, motivation pushing myself. so,my therapist suggested i go on Ritalin to help with these concentration/focus issues. i've always had big problems concentrating on anything. like reading especially. at the moment i am weening myself off Lamictal and Wellbutrin slowly.

Based on my lack of response to depression relieving drugs and my positive response to Adderall do you think that my problem is depression-related?

But I am so scared because I have grown up with Adderall (read my journal if you want to or get a chance) and I feel so sluggish and scared I will never be motivated to do anything again in my life. Adderall never made me high but gave me the well being feeling and it helped me with my crontic fatigue syndrome. Please pass me anything you can. Even feel free to email me personally. I need to know what I can expect or something close to it and what I can do to move on.

I make sure I only eat about 1200 calories a day based on how much I work out. Almost I got put in adderall and it helped a lot. If you go to your gunocologist she may be able to prescribe you bobtrile. It is an aid in weight loss and helps sooooo much!

In fact, a long-time friend suggests that I was misdiagnosed with Bi-Polar. Currently, I take 1000 mg. Depakote, 150 mg. Lamictal, and 30 mg. of Vyanse. The Vyanse was substituted for Adderral because I was looking for something better and maybe less side effects, not that I had negative side effects but I had some sleep issues with Adderall now corrected. I also learned from this forum that a person felt Adderall made them feel like they were on Meth.

are these severe side effects should i keep taking it or stop i suffer from minor vertigo before adderall and my pulse and bp is alway up and down but no doctor shows concern and rigjt now i can teach any my docs. Does it sound safe to continue? the positive of adderall beside physical probs i feel calm my thoughts stopped racing but i get alil out my mind from being groggy and again since i cant walk cause the sever vertigo i have truble drinking fluids. by morning im 100% fine.

gain and titrating up on Lamictal for obvious mood swings. Idk, Abilify worked well for me with Zoloft for approx 8 years. Good luck to you!

Because of the 1 in a thousand risk of a rare rash Lamictal has to be started at 25 mg. and cannot be raised more than 25 mg. a week. That is a FDA regulation. The rare rash (Stephen's Johnson Syndrome) is nothing to be concerned about. As I remember when I started Lamictal if I had any signs of a rash I had to inform my doctor. However, because of this extremely rare side effect by FDA regulations it can only be raised at this rate.

I've vented often on here. It really helps. As I've stated in other posts my son & I were just diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder - he has I, I'm guessing i have I but My Pdoc did not specify, but our treatments by different docs have been similar. We both were initially on Lamictal. The first time me son stopped taking his meds, after being committed, he ended up committed again less than 3 weeks later for suicidal thoughts.

My daughter has concentration problems and some memory loss on her medications but finds those side effects tolerable in comparison to cycling. She takes Lithium 1200 mg (split 600am/900pm), Lamictal 100pm and Adderall XR 10mg AM. She also takes a multivitamin, calcium, biotin, birth control, and zantac. She was on Geodon 80 mg (gained 30lbs and no improvement) and zoloft 50mg... with all the other stuff she was on. That was from August until mid December.

PROZAC 60MGS. AND LAMITCAL 300MGS. AND AS OF A WEEK AGO ADDERALL 10MGS. (IMMEDIATE RELEASE) I WAS DOING OK WITH MY DEPRESSION UNTIL THE ADDERALL. IT MAKES ME FEEL HOPELESS AND I GET THAT SAME DOOMED FEELING AS YOU DO. I'VE NEVER BEEN THIS DEPRESSED IN MY LIFE! I KNOW I NEED TO GO OFF THE ADDERALL BUT WITHOUT IT I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO ENERGY OR MOTIVATION. LIKE YOU ALSO STIMULANTS MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE FOR ME.

Next he gives me lamictal. I develop a rash on my right thigh and tell him. He says “im sorry” and then gives me latuda. Dont judge too harshly, this was last year( im 20 now) and i was too afraid to stand up for myself. I took latuda a few times... caused me to have a panic attack and destroy my things with a hammer. Now I dont take any medicine except for adderall. Adderall has helped so much. And i dont see that psychiatrist anymore. He was an evil man.

Not to mention that another doctor diagnosed me previous to this doctor as ADD, so I was on Adderall XR 20 mg and Cymbalta 60 mg. My Pdoc told me that it was a horrible combo for me - and progressively took me off of Cymbalta (withdrawals sucked big time) and put me on a progressively increasing Lamactical dose. I went from 12.5 to 25 to 50 and now I am getting to the 100mg stage. My issue is that I have had bouts with nausia, diarhea, and bad headaches.

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