Age: 36–45 · Duration of use: 2–5 years · Current status: No, have stopped
Symptoms: Emotional blunting, cognitive impairment, insomnia, suicidal ideation, severe anxiety/panic, muscle/joint pain, anhedonia, severe depression, mood instability, fatigue
Symptoms: Emotional blunting, cognitive impairment, insomnia, suicidal ideation, severe anxiety/panic, muscle/joint pain, anhedonia, severe depression, mood instability, fatigue
Tapered off lamotrigine after five years. Very slow five-month taper. Every day since reaching zero six months ago has been terrible. I'm being told that my symptoms are proof that I need to be on a mood stabilizer and it's my fault for tapering off. Ultimately gaslighting. None of my symptoms were ever, ever this bad.
Brain fog nonstop. Debilitating brain fog and anxiety every single day. Every morning. And all day. Severe depression. Ketosis isn't helping. Currently doing Spravato and TMS treatments. This has been hell. I don't have uncontrollable rumination anymore, but it's been replaced with all the other symptoms. I don't know what to do. I'm not taking lamotrigine the rest of my life, but stopping has been terrible.