lamictal unipolar depression

My new doctor thinks I've been misdiagnosed for depression/anxiety. He says this based on everything I described to him and because general SSRI's just cause me more problems than good (high anxiety and side effects). He says I'm not BiPolar, but that I have a mood disorder, on the BiPolar Spectrum... maybe unipolar. He says he does not know exactly what kind of mood disorder yet, just that I have one. So he's trying me out on Lamictal.

And is it also possible that my other sister with unipolar depression might turn into Bipolar, or if she was going to develop Bipolar would it have happened in her 20s, if this is what you think happened to my sister who has now been diagnosed with the ?Bipolar. Her doctor thinks it's just normal depression but she is worried. Sorry this is so long.

I take it at night. I don't fall asleep easily and I oversleep. Wierd. It does help but have anxiety, oversleep, late to work, sexual side effects (typical though), and anxiety. One doc said I'm unipolar and should try just Lamictal which I had no anxiety or depression, but cried alot and got angry easily.

Have you tried a mood stabilizer such as Lithium or Lamictal? Depression with onset in the teen years may be a sign of bipolar spectrum disorder rather than unipolar depression. This would also explain why you have not responded well to anti-depressants in the past. For more information, google Phelps + psych education.

She said she just doesnt see any signs of bipolar and thinks im just unipolar depressive. However, she said I may be the treatment resistence type so prescribed me 25MG of lamictal to add to my 37.5mg of Effexor XR. I am supposed to take 12.5mg/day for one week then start on the full 25mg. I took the first 12.5mg last night and this morning I woke up feeling hungover, with tense twitching muscles and slight vision troubles. I felt groggy until about 3pm today.

celexa generic citalopram and brand name cipram in the the eastern countries is produced by the same Danish company which produces cipralex/lexapro/escitalopram. In different forums one finds many pts using it. it's weaker than lexapro, exactly half its therapeutic dose in maximum and minimum. BP pts take wellbutrin, celexa, lexapro in the majority of the cases. A few take seroxat/paxil to go with lamictal.

[citation needed] Lamotrigine has been studied as an adjunctive therapy for treatment of refractory unipolar depression, attaining efficacy on the secondary metric for treatment outcomes (Clinical Global Impressions), but not the primary metrics (Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale and Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression).

Does Lamictal help with anxiety AND depression? I'm just not sure how anxiety and depression is a mood disorder. I thought you had to be manic to have a mood disorder. I really appreciate everyone's help!

Its entirely possible to be Bipolar and fit all of the symptoms of unipolar depression and more so if depression is your most common state - major depressive episodes happen to many many bipolar's during their lives - my last one lasted nearly 3 years for example. Now I am not a doctor ok but your medications are interesting to me. You take Lithium which is a mood stabiliser and its effective on both phases; you take Seroquel which is another mood stabiliser - is this for sleep?

t understand why he wrote lexapro plus lamictal unless your depression is really bad. should be cautious if you have a bipolar disorder then antidepressants can drive you manic after a while. so better to seek advise from a pdoc. if on the other hand have simple unipolar depression then an antidepress...

bipolar disorder, which looks very much like unipolar depression in that these people have only very slight, almost unnoticable, manic phases that go undignosed - in other words, there is a spectrum of bipolar disorders, some with a greater degree of mania, other with a greater degree of depression, and many in between. And since their clinical presentations are very similar, people with soft bipolar disorder are sometimes misdiagnosed with unipolar depression.

I saw my P-doc today and he said he has seen Lamictal work very well for this Soft or Bi-polar ll type of agitated anxiety based depression. He's trying me on that, slow at first. Correct you are; No doubt I will have to keep taking my AD medication. I get way too low without it. This damn ultra high anxiety needs to get in check though. Hoping Lamictal will level me out a bit. My AD is Mertazapine.

It does sound confusing, so ask the doctor that diagnosed you to explain exactly why they think you have bipolar depression instead of unipolar depression. Good luck!

I started Lamictal three weeks ago and am at 200mg. Started Latuda about four days ago at 80 mg. Serequel 100mg to sleep. Doc says I might have BP. Not sure if it's BP or deep depression. How long does it take for these meds to work? I'm on and off and teary and a bit sick. I'm not hopeless anymore, but still very scared. Does anyone have advice?

Could I be going through mania as well as depression rite now? I feel so hyper and up I can't even sleep and it's 1 o clock in the morning but I feel like crying and just giving up all together I can't stop pacing back in forth in my room and the smallest things make me wanna throw my tv out the window I already thru my phone at the wall I can't think clearly so I play music really loudly to drown my own thoughts any suggestions what do I do?

many of the epilespy meds are used as mood stabiliers in bipolar but not in unipolar depression .Usually two or three weeks to start to kick in , keep a mood diary to get a more objective than subjective effect .

Hi, I noticed that no one had answered you yet, perhaps it is because there may be no clear cut answer to your question. I am sorry that you are suffering from recurrent depression. I do as well. Has your doctor talked to you about any of the various "bipolar" issues? The classic "bipolar" or "manic-depression" illness has alternating moods of depression and high-euphoria.

I have been struggling with depression for many years. I took Zoloft for 8 years with good results, however the effect of the drug lessoned and I began trying newer medications ie, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Cymbalta, Triliptal, Lexapro, Lamictal, Luvox, all of which caused significant hair loss. I am now on Celexa and my hair is starting to fall out. It is very disappointing.

I have been on and off an Effexor/Lamictal combination for a number of years - going off of it when I've lost health insurance or just can't afford it. This time around I've been on it about 1 1/2 years and due to paperwork issues, my new prescription didn't arrive per usual, so my psychiatrist had me immediately go from 600 mg effexor to 300 mg, and now to 150 mg in less then a week. I've also gone down from 450 mg of lamictal to 150 mg.

I was put on lamictal for mania because I cannot take any of the traditional mania meds. Lamictal worked for me but I had side effects and had to stop it. Your dr is just following new medication lists.

Have you considered trying abilify or seroquel? They are atypical antipsychotics that get used as add ons for unipolar depression, and are used for mood stabilization in bipolar. You could try an SNRI like effexor if you haven't tried that class yet, or maybe wellbutrin (although this could worsen your anxiety). There's also remeron, which can sometimes help when nothing else seems to.

this question is stupid because any illness is bad, even a strong headache can make you wish to die. What I meant in terms of therapy. I mean a person having unipolar depression is difficult to treat than a person having unipolar mania. Mania harms the brain and is the cause of the kindling effect, there is no kindling effect I suppose in depression; meaning after every depressive episode the next one is worse. I read often that mania stops itself eventually even if untreated.

t give himself a chance of reflexions to check whether this is unipolar depression or bipolar one, so the automatic response for the 5 minutes meeting with him is to write to you an antidepressant. If you are lucky he may add an AP to cover it up. If not, he drives you manic so when you go to see him again he labels you with BP. Of course the symptoms get worse.

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