I just started 25 mg lamictal, and even though my pdoc told me I wouldn’t feel any difference for at least a month, with my very first dose, I noticed a significant change in my mood.
I suffer from mixed mania along with the schizophrenia, so even when I’m terribly depressed and feeling awful, I have an abundance of energy (albeit unproductive). I feel irritable and morose, as well as very “activated”, meaning that both my brain and body seem to be running full speed, which becomes exhausting in short order. Sentences repeat in my head over and over for hours, I have the compulsion to constantly talk to myself to the point that I’m losing my voice, and I grit my teeth periodically throughout the day, leaving my jaw sore in the evenings.
With one pill of lamictal this morning, I have noticed a smoothness to my thinking and my physical energy levels. From what I’ve read, this seems to be a common occurrence with lamictal, usually with higher dosages.
My question is, do you think it’s normal to enjoy the apathy?
I was on Lamictal for depression.
I found that it acted too much like an antidepressant, it worsened my moods and made me very anxious, it can be a stimulating medication.
If you just started taking this med, I would give it some more time, the apathy may go away.
Lamictal is not supposed to make you feel apathetic, this is not normal.
I would most definitely bring it up to your doctor.
I’m sorry @catchme I misunderstood.
When you say that you are feeling apathy, you mean calmer.
You were feeling tense before with mixed states.
OK got you.
Yeah glad that you are feeling less intense emotions.
Sorry for the confusion.
Glad you are calming down some from the head circus. It takes forever to get up to the right dose with lamictal doesn’t it? Give it more time. I have the opposite I feel more intensely than when I was deadened on an antidepressant.
