Hello.
Hope u are all great and happy.
I’ve started taking lamotrogine again and have developed a rash on both arms from it.
I didn’t get this rash last time I took it.
Why would I get it this time around ?
Any of u had this problem before.?
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This sounds like an allergic reaction. Call your doctor right away!
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Yeah speak to a doc man pronto
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Yeah man, this sounds very potentially serious. Call immediately!
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Only a doctor can properly diagnose a Lamictal rash and decide whether it is serious. However, knowing the symptoms of this rash can be helpful for determining if a rash may be due to Lamictal and whether it is bad enough to be an emergency.
Signs and symptoms of the rash typically include:
- red blisters in one or more areas, often the face or mouth
- itching skin
- hives
- general feeling of being unwell
- fever
Indications of a more serious rash include:
- peeling skin
- very painful blisters
- redness, swelling, and inflammation in or around the eyes
- body aches
- a cough
- flu-like symptoms
- swollen lymph nodes
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Your allergies can change with time that’s why you probably didn’t get it last time.
I even had a serious allergic reaction to either, a medicine the 5th time I took it. Or it was my sisters pie the 20th time I ate it in my life. Past thanksgiving. I’m still not sure if it was from the pie or the medicine but i had no bad reaction the first times taking something, but then had a bad one later on. So yeah it’s definitely possible
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Thanks folks,
I did speak to her and she said its probably just bruising, but i must stop the lamotragine just to be safe.
Thanks
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Good luck! Did she say what new med she’s going to put you on?
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No, but im going to see her on soon, so we will chat then.
Thanks again 
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Lamictal destroyed my life. period
got a nasty psychosis from it, stevens johnsson rash is deadly