Most medications come from herbs, amino acids or natural substances that are chemically synthesized. There certainly is still a time and a place for aggressive medical intervention, such as in emergencies. Homeopathy can also be useful for certain things, for some people. Let me know if this answers your question! I asked for your opinions about specialists because soon I should visit a cardiologist feel long ago that my heart was very affected by psych medications, with pain almost all days, continuously, although the doctors always told me not to worry me at all… and just their indifference caused me more damage.

For example, after psychiatric medications they gave me antihistamines for three weeks and I had more reaction even in my skin, after only two days taking them I had to withdraw them!. By this I mean, if we do not know very well what psychiatric medications have produced in our body…, we must be careful with herbal medicines also! Sorry for mistakes with my English, hope you understand my basics ideas in this text!

Best wishes for you with your recovery, Adelina Reply Thanks Adelina! I totally get what you are saying here. The denial on the part of medical professionals has been very frustrating for so many of us. I think herbs and natural products can help as well as good food of course , but you are right.

Any insight would be amazing. Reply Link Kim February 20, , Was on it for 1 and a half year mg. Reply Link Kim March 14, , When I increased from 25mg to 50mg. Truly thought this was the flu because it was flu season. By the time I was up to mg I was feeling the worst I had ever felt. Started lowering my dosage, now I have been completely off for 3 days.

Still not feeling my best, but better. Obviously, this medication is not for me. It was prescribed as a mood stabilizer. Reply Link Nicole March 9, , 2: So sorry to hear how terrible and debilitating withdrawing from this drug has been for so many of you.

Also mg of venlafaxine, another awful drug to come off, for bipolar II with recurrent depression. But the comments about the side affects from discontinuation coming late really scare me. Literally manic and mad. But I feel my old personality is already re emerging. These meds helped initially but after a while they always stop working and my depression gets worse than ever.

One thing that I know sounds crazy but has been invaluable in helping not just mentally but with other physical ailments is celery juicing every single morning.

It was recommended by many holistic practitioners to me and helped a friend recover from awful physical illness when the doctors pretty much wrote her off. Also when it felt like withdrawal was really difficult to cope with, my diet has made a huge difference. An acquaintance of mine who is a doctor is bipolar and has come off of all meds with little symptoms and no longer has anything like the episodes of bipolar she used to get, has done it purely through food and supplements.

But she changed her diet in a big way. Our guts play a major part in depression as well as many other illnesses. I am not advocating stopping meds in any way but what I am realising is that what I eat has played a major part in my recovery. As some others have mentioned above, magnesium has helped lots.

Also with aiding sleep. A really good B vitamin complex also. But I cannot always afford these things. I feel awful for those of you in the U. I now realise that here in the UK, where despite moaning about our NHS service, we are very lucky to receive medical care free of charge.

Another thing someone mentioned is walking. Sometimes when highly depressed or anxious or having no energy, forcing myself out of the door, even if for only 15 mins of walking helps, also with sleep. Hot yoga has literally saved my life at times, when suicidal. Sorry this post is soooo long but I hope this info can be of help to anyone suffering in some way. Sending healing thoughts to you all.

Reply Link Jeff Baucom March 3, , 3: I was given this medicine for bipolar disorder. I took 25 mg for 10 days and then 50mg for 10 days and then mg. I started have some neck problems and just thought I hurt it somehow, then double vision and tremors. I thought all of this was from a possible pinched nerve in my neck.

I went and got a shot in my neck, when non of the problems I was having started going away I started looking into the meds I was taking.

My doctor told me the only thing to be on the look out for way a rash. I am a tattoo artist and have been out of work for over a month now with tremors, I have been off the meds for a week now, no more double vision, but neck problems and tremors are still with me.

Hoping they will be gone with in the next week. I have experienced all of those symptoms. It is mainly during this time that some medicines are known to cause birth defects.

Around 7, babies born to women who took lamotrigine during pregnancy have been studied in total. Lamotrigine is sometimes taken in combination with other medicines to treat epilepsy.

Some studies have shown that women taking combinations of antiepileptic medicines may be more likely to have a baby with a birth defect than women taking a single antiepileptic medicine. All three studies which investigated this have shown that women taking lamotrigine in combination with antiepileptics other than sodium valproate were not at higher risk of having a baby with a birth defect than women who took only lamotrigine. If you are taking more than one medicine to control epilepsy you should discuss any concerns that you may have with your doctor.

Do not alter the dose of any medicine you are taking without first speaking to your doctor. Making changes to your medicine yourself may be more harmful to both you and your baby than continuing to take it. Can taking lamotrigine in pregnancy cause miscarriage, stillbirth, or preterm birth? No links between lamotrigine use in pregnancy and miscarriage, stillbirth, or preterm birth are known about, although no scientific studies have been carried out that have specifically investigated these pregnancy outcomes.

Can taking lamotrigine in pregnancy cause my baby to be small at birth low birth weight? No link between taking lamotrigine in pregnancy and an increased risk of low birth weight in the baby was identified in one study of around 1, women. Because these results are from just one study more research is required to confirm these findings. Can taking lamotrigine in pregnancy cause other health problems in the child? Lamotrigine works in a similar way to other medicines that are known to cause neonatal withdrawal, therefore close monitoring of your baby for a few days after birth may be advised if you have taken lamotrigine regularly in the weeks before delivery.

Monitoring of your baby may be particularly important if you have taken lamotrigine in combination with other antiepileptic medicines or medicines that act on the brain. Antiepileptic medicines act upon the brain, and children who were exposed in the womb to the antiepileptic sodium valproate have been shown to be more likely to have problems with learning and behaviour. The basis for this broader spectrum of activity of lamotrigine is unknown, but could relate to actions of the drug on voltage-activated calcium channels.

Lamotrigine blocks T-type calcium channels weakly, if at all. Whether this activity on calcium channels accounts for lamotrigine's broader clinical spectrum of activity in comparison with phenytoin and carbamazepine remains to be determined. It antagonises the following receptors with the following IC50 values: Available data indicate that its bioavailability is not affected by food. Estimate of the mean apparent volume of distribution of lamotrigine following oral administration ranges from 0.

This is independent of dose and is similar following single and multiple doses in both patients with epilepsy and in healthy volunteers. Its major metabolite is an inactive 2-n-glucuronide conjugate. Clinical trials excluded subtle effects and optimal duration of treatment. There are no specific recommendations for periodic ophthalmological monitoring.

Lamotrigine binds to the eye and melanin-containing tissues which can accumulate over time and may cause toxicity.

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