Lamotrigine or other medication symptoms/withdrawl. Feeling depressed and lost.
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Hello everyone! I just joined this forum recently. I have a few mental health issues including bipolar, sensory issues, adhd, depression and anxiety. While I am waiting for doctor answers, I have some questions and concerns about a few medications I was on. I'm wondering if anyone has known someone or themselves have experienced any related symptoms or happen to know a doctor with answers.
The 16th of December I started my medications of 25mg of Lamotrigine once a day, Memantine10mg once a day, Magnesium, B6 and Niacin. I felt my bipolar and anger issues start to get a little better within 2 weeks. Ok great!
Well as prescribed I had to start taking Memantine twice a day 6 days later: no issues seemed to occur. Lamotrigine twice a day 2 weeks after my first dose. The week of January 3rd I noticed, and others that I began to act very hyper compared to normal and I noticed throughout the week a rapid heart rate. Normally I am in the low 70s but now it sometimes ran 95 or more! Somewhere in there I began getting light headed and dizzy. Concerned, on the 6th I called my doctor to lower the dose of Lamotrigine because CVS mentioned those could be side effects as well as the FDA. Luckily I was only supposed to be on thus for only a month, if that is what is causing the symptoms I'm about to describe. The 11th was my last dose. But I am still not sure if it's the Lamotrigine or Memantine which I am now going through tapering back to one a day at night. The FDA does say Lamotrigine stays in your system for 14 days roughly.
So what's been happening is, I will feel lightheaded and dizzy at different points throughout the day. Sort of, 'out of it' a little shake but not actually shake. It seems like a blur, but I am not 100% sure it it happened while I was still on my 2 Lamotrigine a day or when started the lower dose. The dizziness also feels like an anxietyof sorts. I still feel like I have rapid heart rate, but I did go to my primary care and during the 15 minutes there they said my heart rate was fine. It seems better than when I was on the medication twice a day...but still makes me nervous. It also feels like I am disconnected from the world around me, as if im about to pass out from not eating enough? Maybe vertigo? Almost And a nonstop anxious feeling. Its so hard to describe.
The weirdest symptoms that just began happening a few days ago, is while I am driving. No idea if this is related or something else completely. I began to feel a little lightheaded and a vertigo feeling, then extremely anxious. Even at a stop light or stop sign sitting still. During that I start to have a sinus head pressure and difficulty breathing.
I'm wondering if anyone has experienced anything like this, or knows someone who has...and what I can do until I hear from my doctor. I know both medications have strange side effects on and with withdrawl. Is it withdrawl I'm feeling or did the medications do something bad? And here I thought I was going to finally have my mental health under control...only to spiral into this weirdness I keep feeling.
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