Lamictal go off

I’m on 50 mg of Lamictal right now specifically to HELP being so damn pissed off and quick to snap all the time (probably adhd emotional disregulation, unsure cause I’m not diagnosed with anything else that traditionally causes agitation) and it’s going rough. Not only am I still pissed off but I keep finding myself being really impulsively mean. Like “why the hell did I say that?” Mean. I heard for a lot of people there’s this weird period in the middle where you just turn into a rage machine out of nowhere and then mellow out when the dose is upped again. Has that been your experience? I’m just worried about it and wondering if sticking things out is worth it. I mean I really don’t wanna subject my family and friends to my crap attitude, it isn’t fair.

What have you found helps you stay asleep?
My main issue, off and on for over a decade now, has been that I can't stay asleep. I'll wake up at 3 or 4 am after I go to be around 11 or 12 at night and am just WIRED. My brain is racing with a million thoughts and I can't go back to sleep.
I took Remeron for years and added some medical marijuana. That worked for a good while, but I quite weed for good about six months ago.
So far, I've tried Ambien and Seroquel. Ambien, even at the highest dosage and with the controlled release, doesn't keep me asleep.
Seroquel does seem to keep me asleep better than Ambien, but I feel like shit the next day. Poor mood, exhausted and lethargic...
What have people found that helps with this particular type of insomnia (waking up with racing thoughts)?
I just started lamictal, so it's early days. My NP also mentioned Abilify.

Important info is in bold. Rest of it are what I am experiencing right now and maybe an idea of having someone close to sleep near or by you. It helps a lot for anxiety and when you wake up in panic.
I've been sleeping next to my parents as lame as that sounds since I become confused and constantly going into panic attacks once my seroquel kicks in. The akathisia is much worse at this time and for hours. I have to take gabapentin a little before my dose to make it somewhat bearable. I'll still be rolling around for hours in a confused and anxious state with what feels like RLS on steroids.
Sleeping next to my parents gives me some peace since I can see them when I feel like I'm starting to slip into a panic attack during my incoherent and panic attack filled phase. I've tried to sleep by my self but I can't stand it as it sends me into full blown panic attacks and just much worst anxiety overall being by my self. It feels like I'm sinking into my bed because my mind is awake but my body feels like it's not there. So I sleep on the floor. It helps me feel grounded.
The worst feeling is my blood pressure drops or at least it feels like it and then tightness and congested feeling of my chest starts once the seroquel is fully working. It feels like I need to manually breathe and it feels like I'm out of breath too. It also feels like I'll die in my sleep from not being able to breathe properly or breathe at all. That's what really sends me in to a panic attack. The inconsistent heart rate and blood pressure doesn't help either.
I will also sit up right in panic sometimes gasping for air or making a sound while sleeping every 20-30mins or every hour or two if I'm lucky. Scared my dad a couple times because of this.
Tardive dyskinesia symptoms have been showing a lot more often too. Woke up several times not being able to control my limbs. Almost fell over once after getting off my bed because I could barely control my legs or arms.
The akathisia during the day started getting worse as days went by. I was desperate because this feeling is horrible. I saw that a good portion of what is used to treat akathisia is already prescribed to me which is clonazepam and gabapentin.
Gabapentin is definitely what works the best. I am also tapering off klonopin and was doing all right with .5mg but now it feels like it's not enough because I am much more anxious than I was a month ago. It still definitely helps with the akathisia though.
Mirtazapine also seems to help a good amount. I'm taking .5mg of clonazepam, 1200mg of gabapentin spread throughout the day, and 15mg of mirtazapine.
Mirtazapine and 250mg of vitamin b6 early in the morning, gabapentin 3x a day, and the clonazepam I take half in the day and half late night. I have to time my doses correctly so I don't experience any akathisia.
Vitamin B6 is supposedly effective but I'm not too sure if it really is.
I also take 250mg of lamictal split into day and night, and 2mg of risperidone which I am tapering off of and will be off completely soon.
I did as much research as I could since it started getting a lot worse soon after I saw my doctor. So I had almost 30 days till I saw my doctor again and I definitely would've gone to the ER. I almost called the ambulance when it started getting bad because I didn't know what the hell was going on. I also didn't know what was going on with me till someone else told me what it was I was experiencing in another post I made which was after I already met the doctor.
It feels like I have to jog around my place without these medications I listed above. It also makes me extremely prone to panic attacks which would occur every few minutes.
Hope this info helps anyone else.
Ask your doc for propranolol and gabapentin. Try mirtazapine. Klonopin should be a last resort.

i started lamictal a few days ago for borderline personality disorders. i have high hopes for this medication because ive heard great things about it. after doing some research i found out that some of these adjustment effects should wear off so im wanting to at least give it a chance.
however, im experiencing intense suicidal thoughts and a lot of dissociation. id consider it worse than my typical and it seems like i get triggered for no reason. i have bpd but ive been able to recognize my triggers but it seems to be doinf this suddenly for no reason. it also seems to be really worrying my partner. tonight i freaked out because i felt unsafe and they were very worried. im scared im going to overwhelm them which sucks because it feels like its regressing s lot of the progress we made together. we jusr hit 6 months have have been making a lot of progress. the relationship is healthy and my partner treats me wonderfully. i just feel bad because these sudden breakdowns for no apparent reason are most definitely draining. i dont particularly want a break because spending time with my partner and the mutual love in the relationship genuinely helps and they motivate me and make recovery seem within sight. it seems more like self sabotage to distance myself.
however its a really intense issue and im not sure how to go about it. especially because ive had a fear of this causing issues and constantly asking if theyee sure they wanr me can add to the overwhelm.
does anyone have any suggestions for coping these next few weeks?

Hello,
I felt my toenail starting to ingrow a week ago, so I deeply trimmed the side away from the skin and then tried to cut the rest of the nail as straight as possible. It doesn’t look ingrown anymore.
It still hurts and is hurting more. I soaked it in epsom salt water a lot yesterday and have been putting antibiotic ointment on it a lot. It doesn’t seem to be doing anything.
I’m going to schedule with a podiatrist today, but I wanted ask on here ASAP because I spent all last summer taking tedious care of a very infected ingrown and the doctor had to cut part of my nail off which was really upsetting. I don’t want that to happen again. If you have any advice, let me know!
18, FTM. 5 ‘4 103lb. Never smoked. Current medications: NP thyroid 45mg, Vyvanse 20mg, Lamictal 50mg, Finasteride 1mg, Hydroxizine 50mg, Dandelion, iron chealate, zinc, vitamin a. Past medications: Testosterone gel at various doses from 06/23 to 3/24. Hypothyroidism, heart murmur.

I am 39 now but was diagnosed at 26. BP1. This past summer, I started pursing treatment in earnest. I was medicated only once prior for like a year after I was diagnosed, until a manic episode convinced me I was cured and I went off meds for the next 11 years. So, this is my first time noticing episodes and dealing with them while medicated.
3 weeks ago, I had an allergic reaction to lamictal and had to go off per dr's advice. That triggered a negative hypomanic episode which I have been stuck in ever since. (I'm also on lithium so wasn't medication-less)
Saw dr. today and she is trying abilify, in addition to my lithium, and added trazodone to replace seroquel.
But, it takes weeks to work. Do I just ride out hypomania and wait? It's negative featured so it's hell and affecting my family.
Any tricks to slow down the hypomania, minimize it, or get it to stop, or do we just wait for the meds to work or our brains to decide it's over?
TIA

I find that my moods fluctuate every few hours. For example, I can wake up happy and excited to start the day, then a few hours I can feel really really low, then suddenly a few hours later I’m happy again, then low again to end off the night?
Not everyday is like that but my moods do constantly change. Sometimes there are triggers that make me happy/sad and sometimes there are no triggers.
Anyone know what is going on here and if there are meds that could help? I’ve tried 3 antidepressants and they all eventually put me into a dark dark place. My random moments of happiness would be nonexistent. I’ve also tried lamictal but that was while I was on my antidepressant, so I don’t think I gave it a fair go

I find that my moods fluctuate every few hours. For example, I can wake up happy and excited to start the day, then a few hours I can feel really really low, then suddenly a few hours later I’m happy again, then low again to end off the night?
Not everyday is like that but my moods do constantly change. Sometimes there are triggers that make me happy/sad and sometimes there are no triggers.
Anyone know what is going on here and if there are meds that could help? I’ve tried 3 antidepressants and they all eventually put me into a dark dark place. My random moments of happiness would be nonexistent. I’ve also tried lamictal but that was while I was on my antidepressant, so I don’t think I gave it a fair go

Hi everyone, I went to see a new psychiatrist for a second opinion, we reached the same conclusion that I have BP2 with a margin for uncertainty. His recommendation was to stay on my previous dose of 50mg lamictal and add effexor, anticipating a hypomania to confirm.
Now, I went there because lamictal gave me debilitating brain fog and he said effexor should help lift it up. Anyone has this cocktail saw an improvement with brain fog and cognition?
I’m also thinking of cutting off lamictal and go on effexor on its own to see how they work individually, is this a good or bad idea?
I’m very hesitant to try new meds cuz I feel like my brain has been fried by the amount of mental related meds I took over the last 9 years…
TL;DR: has effexor helped lift lamictal’s brain fog? And is it wise to stop lamictal and start Effexor of its on?

I’ve been taking it for a few months, and the side effects are intense. I can’t sleep, I’m exhausted and tired all the time. I’m extremely depressed and sad, more than I’ve been in a long time. I’m irritable and reactive. I can’t function like this.
My neurologist said it wouldn’t clash with my other seizure meds- lamictal and zonisamide. I only started taking it because of a breakthrough seizure. I hate changing my seizure regimen because of this exact type of scenario.
I have a telehealth appt on Friday. I’m going to ask to go off the BRIVIACT.
Has anyone else had similar experiences with this medication?

I was wondering if anyone out there can share their experience coming off this medication after taking it for MANY years.
I didn't have any negative experiences with this med - I've just had multiple psychiatrists (and a therapist) tell me within the last 2 years that I'm not bi polar 2 after all, and that I don't need the med.
Plus I have fibromyalgia, have had for seven years, and in an effort to just be on less medication/put fewer things into my body (let alone "things" I don't need), my doc has be going off lamictal and one other psych med (quetiapine aka Seroquel). I have been off lamictal for just over a week after being on it since it came out in 2010 and had been tapering down from 200 for about 2 months. I am down to 25mg seroquell down from 100. About a year ago I started to take trazodone bc I was having really bad sleep. Now it has replaced quetiapine.
Because I gradually tapered off lamictal and quetiapine at the same time, it's hard if not impossible to tell what's causing what. My symptoms? The most insane fatigue I have ever felt in my life. Barely able to function. Yes, chronic fatigue is a stymtom of fibromyalgia, but this is on another level. I did have some pretty bad separation anxiety when my boyfriend went on a a trip. But other than that, the process has not been dramatic (obviously the fatigue is dramatic, but nothing emotional is happening to me).
Everything I've read online is basically like once the med is out of your system you're done/good. But this medication has been in my system for 14 years. This has to be a huge shock to my system (doctor doesn't agree). Is it fair to assume that I'm not going to feel normal for a while?? 14 years is a long time!!

(23M) Was placed on 20mg olanzapine during a hospitalization back in February. Did a rapid taper over the last 3 months as I wasn’t happy with how I felt on the medication (flat mood, lack of interest in things, low libido), although I suppose it could be post psychotic depression as well.
I’ll be completely off the medication this week, however I’m not sure if I’m prepared to deal with the rebound insomnia and depression.
My next appointment with a psych doc is in 6 days, and they will most likely prescribe seroquel 25mg. I could also ask for mirtazapine 15mg, however I’m not sure if it’s a good option for me as I most likely have bipolar 1.
I also have a script for 25mg lamictal but I’ve been afraid to start that as well.
At this point, my goal is to just regain my ability to sleep naturally, but I’ve been overwhelmed with having to cope with this disorder and what to do going forward. Should I just ride it out over the next month, and hope the insomnia lifts? Lack of sleep seems to be a trigger for mania for me as well. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.

(23M) Was placed on 20mg olanzapine during a hospitalization back in February. Did a rapid taper over the last 3 months as I wasn’t happy with how I felt on the medication (flat mood, lack of interest in things, low libido), although I suppose it could be post psychotic depression as well.
I’ll be completely off the medication this week, however I’m not sure if I’m prepared to deal with the rebound insomnia and depression.
My next appointment with a psych doc is in 6 days, and they will most likely prescribe seroquel 25mg. I could also ask for mirtazapine 15mg, however I’m not sure if it’s a good option for me as I most likely have bipolar 1.
I also have a script for 25mg lamictal but I’ve been afraid to start that as well.
At this point, my goal is to just regain my ability to sleep naturally, but I’ve been overwhelmed with having to cope with this disorder and what to do going forward. Should I just ride it out over the next month, and hope the insomnia lifts? Lack of sleep seems to be a trigger for mania for me as well. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.

(23M) Was placed on 20mg olanzapine during a hospitalization back in February. Did a rapid taper over the last 3 months as I wasn’t happy with how I felt on the medication (flat mood, lack of interest in things, low libido), although I suppose it could be post psychotic depression as well.
I’ll be completely off the medication this week, however I’m not sure if I’m prepared to deal with the rebound insomnia and depression.
My next appointment with a psych doc is in 6 days, and they will most likely prescribe seroquel 25mg. I could also ask for mirtazapine 15mg, however I’m not sure if it’s a good option for me as I most likely have bipolar 1.
I also have a script for 25mg lamictal but I’ve been afraid to start that as well.
At this point, my goal is to just regain my ability to sleep naturally, but I’ve been overwhelmed with having to cope with this disorder and what to do going forward. Should I just ride it out over the next month, and hope the insomnia lifts? Lack of sleep seems to be a trigger for mania for me as well. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.

I have a hard time coming to terms with my diagnosis, despite all the evidence to the contrary. If you met me, you would never know I'm bipolar. Nobody does. I'm ambitious and my life is "together."
Last year I (29f) started experiencing rapid mood cycling like never before. I impulsively ended a bad relationship, lost a lot of weight, had classic bipolar rage, hypersexulization, dramatic energy fluctuations, did things that weere out of chatacter, and toward the end I did feel paranoid and heard sounds. Often, i was in a state of sadness.
But at the same time, I kept moving forward in life. I felt like I couldn't trust myself but on the outside, everything was fine and nobody was worried about me.
I would have done anything for the cycling to end. I got diagnosed and put on Lamictal, which wasn't a fit for me. My psych then wanted to try an antipsychotic plus some diabetes medication to prevent the weight gain side effect. It all felt like too much. I'm not up for the trial and error. Since then, I've spent 6 months depressed and off meds. Gained all weight back.
Also, the start of all this cycling can be traced to a time when my schedule changed suddenly. Now I know better.
I've gotten into therapy again and am committed this time because I don't want to live like this. I feel like I'm wasting my life being depressed.
Today my therapist said if I'm going to manage this holistically I need to learn how to offset hypomania when it comes on. Typically I just try to enjoy the ride because it's a relief from the depression and I feel I'm a better version of myself in most cases, last year being a dysphoric exception.
I never really do anything too crazy so it's hard to see the harm in it. She told me all about the damage it can cause overtime, which I've heard about and emphasized that I need to let it go or it will get worse. This is a hard pill to swallow, I don't want to subdue it if I'm lucky enough to feel energetic and sociable and productive.
I dont really have a specific question. I don't know where to start. I guess I'm wondering if anyone can relate to this high functioning spectrum of bipolar and feeling like medication is not the way for you and worried if you'll ever feel good again without mania.

26F, had a period of denial and went off my meds for almost two years. in the time i had a raging 3 month long full blown manic episode that had a lot of social and other repercussions, crashed into depression, started seeking treatment again, had another manic episode because my medication wasn't correct... coming out of it now i'm on week 3 of going up to 200mg of lamictal, taking 2.5mg of zyprexa as well. i think i feel pretty stable... but i just don't feel as sharp as i was a few years ago. i'm constantly losing things or misplacing things, i stop talking in the middle of sentences and forget what i'm saying, i have a really hard time focusing on anything like watching tv.. it's been like this ever since the really bad episode last summer, but i think it got even worse recently. is this just part of the disorder?

It seems like all I see are stuff about how parents hate their autistic children or how people with autism should be euthanized or how if the cure for autism is found it should be given upon diagnosis (and most of the time before the child can even consent) and it scares me to my core it seems like everyone just wants to ‘fix’ us and it’s terrifying to me. But all I hear is how people are more accepting but it really seems like they hate us. So it the stigma truly going away? Or are your experiences the same as mine.
EDIT: here are some of the links to the ‘cure’ for autism people seem to be talking about. Can anyone confirm or deny if it’s actually scientific sound or not? https://www.abtaba.com/blog/autism-treatment-breakthrough#:\~:text=Children%20who%20received%20Nirsevimab%20exhibited,autism%20spectrum%20disorder%20%5B3%5D.
https://www.goldenstepsaba.com/resources/autism-treatment-breakthrough
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-study-finds-dollar3-lamictal-pill-may-help-turn-off-autism-symptoms-in-mice#:\~:text=Lamotrigine%2C%20a%20%243%20pill%20used,following%20a%20study%20on%20mice.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202205783

BP2 - Was on Lamictal 2 years ago, didn’t do well past 25mg, so i got off it (psych advised). I didn’t get a rash or have any bad side effects on 25mg. Fast forward to now, i have a new psych now and they want me to go back on lamictal and stay at 25mg to see if it’ll help with dissociation/depressive episodes since my lexapro only helps with anxiety/OCD.
If i didn’t get the rash the first time, will i still be good now taking it the second time? Wondering what 2nd time users have experienced when starting lamictal again. Thanks!

that's it. i just feel so insanely bad that people have to deal with me being the way i am despite years and years of trying to control this stupid disorder that's ruined my life
i only have online friends left, had a massive falling out with IRL friends that i don't miss but three years of not having anyone to see besides my parents every day is soul crushing. i'm too disabled to work after sudden onset fibromyalgia back in 2019 and i haven't found anything to help the symptoms, i am currently seeing a doctor i trust but i've literally only been to him once so there just isn't much time to really sit down and try to find the cause. he's also treating the PMDD but we're still very early in that as well. i'm on viibryd and lamictal so i'm medicated but it's too early to see real results with the lamictal. i've been more stable the past 5 days but it's like im feeling all of it at once instead of the slow burn
idk. i have only been talking to the few friends i have left maybe once or twice month for over 2 years now and that's mostly just to say "hey i'm not dead yet" they're wonderful people, i love them so much and they're all very patient and understanding and know that the pmdd is extremely severe and that the safest thing for me to do (for myself and for them) is to isolate so i can try and rest and not potentially blow up on someone during a rage episode.
my most favorite person in the world sent me a dm a few weeks ago that was essentially "you say the word and i am driving ten hours to come see you and we're going to go have fun" and i just lost it. lost my fucking mind because i read that message and all i could think was "but what about my period what if i'm in luteal" and had the worst word vomit of my life trying to express gratitude but also that i just don't know if i will ever be ready for life again. i don't know if i will ever be pleasant to be around ever again. sure, i get my good week if im lucky that cycle but it's all spent trying to recover from 10-14 days of emotional trauma made by own fucking stupid body and trying to prepare myself for The Horrors Yet to Come
i just want to go back in time and never have met these people just to save them the pain of having known someone who ended up being so profoundly mentally ill kind of out of nowhere when i tried micronor back at the end of 2021 and have been violently depressed since. it's not even that i'm upset with them in any way at all, i just feel so guilty for having made friends and now having psychic powers to know everything would go to hell so fast
i know it's illogical, i know i can't keep myself from making a connection ever again in my life because what if a bad thing happens, i know i'm in luteal on top of a late period. i fucking wish that knowing that i'm in luteal made anything better but if anything i think i feel worse knowing it's just a reaction to a hormone my body makes. i'm transgender so it's an extra kick in the teeth that not only did i get a body that doesn't look right but it doesn't work right either- so many things that have traumatized me and made me worse off mentally could have been solved if i had just ended up with a dick and balls instead of the uterus set up
i just want it to end. i am a massive burden to my parents and i know seeing me in this much pain upsets them and there's nothing they can do about it. my only sibling killed himself years ago so i'm the only child they have left. i wish that i could say "well everyone sorry but it sucks too bad and i am ready to die now" and the answer would be "aw we'll miss you but if this is the only way to make the suffering stop we'll send you out with a bang"
i'm tired. i'm trying to distract myself until the bleeding starts but i'm so scared i won't feel better this time and it's so hard to try and stay focused on literally anything through the luteal fog. i know that it's the PMDD talking but my fucking god it makes me feel all the more insane to know this is just going to keep happening to me until we throw a dart in the dark and manage to hit something that might work for a little bit
i feel like an old dog that needs to be let go of but no one else is ready so they're keeping it alive for their sake. it feels so cruel to not let me end it when i'm the one who has to sit through this for the rest of my life that i didn't ask for
this is very long and very dramatic and i am hoping that in like 20 minutes i finally get my period and then i get a little embarrassed about crying really hard on the Internet to a bunch of strangers and then get on with it but god i am so sick of this. i wish they could inflict the emotional turmoil on cis men so someone would find a fucking cure or at least acknowledge that it's real

Hi everyone,
I’ve been with my partner (27m) for almost 10 years. We got married last June. We got together before he got his diagnosis, which he finally received in 2021 for bipolar 2 and cyclothymia.
Before he was medicated he had a lot of depressive episodes for months at a time, particularly in winter, and would have sudden, aggressive outbursts over very minute things. He got so much better whilst he was on his medication, his mood was stable and he was more relaxed, didn’t have any sudden outbursts and we were getting on better than we ever had. I believe he was on 200/250mg lamictal for his bipolar and 150mg sertraline for anxiety.
I noticed he started acting differently in November last year, around 5 months after our wedding and a few weeks after his birthday. He’s always been pretty introverted, but suddenly he was meeting up and talking to friends he hadn’t seen for years, staying out late without keeping in touch, taking much more care of his appearance and becoming more vain. His memory became awful and he kept forgetting things, he also began skiving off work and neglecting his job responsibilities, as well as chores etc around the house more than usual and was listening to music constantly and always on his phone.
As the months have gone on, he’s become more and more distant from me and tells me to my face that he thinks I’m boring now and we no longer have anything in common, even though the only thing that’s altered in terms of his hobbies is how much he listens to music and goes to concerts, he’s also started running 5k every evening.
He then began saying we should have an open marriage and see other people, which is extremely out of character. He says this is the best and happiest he’s ever felt in his life, and I’m just putting him down - he’s got a very inflated sense of confidence at the moment and says he’s finally feeling like himself.
I suspected he was hyper manic as he was acting very out of character and then discovered he was altering his medication and reducing his dose. I told his doctor who had him assessed at a psychiatric facility, where they somehow concluded he wasn’t manic despite his odd behaviour.
As the months have gone on his behaviour has gotten worse, he still goes out for an entire weekend without properly keeping in touch, he’s started saying that he feels nothing towards anyone and like he’s a sociopath — saying he could stab someone and not feel anything, doesn’t feel empathy towards others etc. he’s also began having angry outbursts again over very small things and will be verbally abusive towards me. He’s now reduced his lamictal to 100mg and completely come off his Sertraline, and says he plans to come off his lamictal completely very soon. I've informed his doctor of this and they said they'll try and get him seen by a psychiatrist.
Every time I try and talk to him about how he’s feeling he just shuts down, he insists he isn’t manic or going through any sort of episode but I’ve known him for 10 years and have never known him to act like this. I feel like he despises me and he tells me he resents me and isn't sure if he loves me anymore as he doesn't feel anything towards anyone at the moment. He keeps saying we should get a divorce as we're too different now and I can't accept the 'new version' of him, which he says is here to stay.
I don't know what to do. I'm getting no support from his doctor or family, and I still feel in my heart that this is some kind of episode and isn't the real him. I'm worried if we separate he'll later regret it, even though he says he feels more like himself than ever. I love him so much and don't want to split up, but I don't recognise the person he's become.

3 years ago I went to see a therapist once suicidal thoughts started to rise, as my mental health was deteriorating.
I was diagnosed with mood disorder being Unipolar.
He prescribed lamictal and I started titrating up to 100 mg and i helped alot.
But recently its cons exceeded its pros,
And that's annoying me so bad, i had perfect hair now i lost that perfection, I used to be the cool but staright As guy but now constant brain fog, can't concentrate at work, while studying even during buying my weekly groceries. I have a brain of a fish. Sometimes I make mistakes speaking my mother language imagine the other 2.
Studying is hell now. Brain fog ( check) Sleeping like a hibernating polar bear for long hours I still have some depression phases every now and then, but they don't last for long.
So long story short, I'm thinking about titrating down till I quit within a month and see how will it go.
So for those who got off it. 1) How were the withdrawals like? 2) did you feel fine after quitting or did the good ol' problems come back crawling? 3) did your memory come back to normal and your brain started functioning as sharp as it used to be?! 4) did your hair grow back 😢?
Thanks.

I find that my moods fluctuate every few hours. For example, I can wake up happy and excited to start the day, then a few hours I can feel really really low, then suddenly a few hours later I’m happy again, then low again to end off the night?
Not everyday is like that but my moods do constantly change. Sometimes there are triggers that make me happy/sad and sometimes there are no triggers.
Anyone know what is going on here and if there are meds that could help? I’ve tried 3 antidepressants and they all eventually put me into a dark dark place. My random moments of happiness would be nonexistent. I’ve also tried lamictal but that was while I was on my antidepressant, so I don’t think I gave it a fair go