Lamotrigine for Borderline Personality Disorder User Reviews (Page 2)

• mad...
• October 6, 2020

"I didn't think I would ever be functioning, or have a day without extreme "agony", anger, outbursts, and ideation. However, the DAY of taking Lamotrigine my emotions just calmed down. My life has improved exponentially. I feel like I can have a family, a career, a stable relationship, and haven't been "on the edge". I know studies say it doesn't work for us. I disagree because this is my miracle drug. Other meds didn't work for me, so my psych recommended lamotrigine. If you feel like you're watching a monster take over your life and you're just there for the ride: I recommend this. If you feel like your emotions take control of your body: I recommend this. Negatives: Numb for the first week. Felt like I didn't love anyone? That's gone now. Oil production: Worst acne of my life. That's ok. Dose changes: I'm on 150mg, and expect to go up. I know when it's time to increase because I'll have a breakdown. I'm worried it won't work once I'm on the max dose. Risky rare side effects: scary."

• Happy
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• July 31, 2023

"I've been on this medication for roughly 2 months & I've never felt better. I no longer have to live with my partner due to my codependency. I don't constantly worry about his exes/the possibility of him cheating on or leaving me. I feel happy. I barely have splits anymore and this has helped tremendously with the spike of emotional symptoms before my menstrual cycle (I also have PMDD). I know who I am now. I go out with friends. I eat normally. I have a normal sleep schedule. and I'm holding a full-time job, etc. It's not a cure-all but I sure do love this! Try it, please."

• Bbeec...
• October 6, 2016

"I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and was prescribed lamictal to stabilize my moods. I was having explosive reactions on a daily basis and morning depression. Today I wake up feeling content and happy. My mood episodes have greatly subsided and I feel like I can handle frustration a lot better. Also my relationship with my boyfriend has improved because of much less fighting and explosions on him. This medication is very helpful. Only side effect was some headaches and diarrhea."

• Akupox
• June 17, 2016

"This medicine has given me my life back, after suffering from BPD, PTSD, manic depression and paranoia for years and trying every medication under the sun with no luck, Lamictal (at 200 mg a day) has made me feel alive again. I have energy, I can think straight, and my highs and lows are less frequent and the lows are much easier to deal with. It really feels like a miracle pill!"

• Aarav
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• January 22, 2024

"This medication was the main medication that has helped me with my BPD. It's helped with my mood swings, especially, which in turn has improved my relations with people. I take 100mg 2x a day, and haven't experienced any side effects."

• hannah
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• July 13, 2023

"I have felt significantly more resilient to stressful events, and overall more stable. I've gone up and down in dosages depending on external factors in my life (between 25 - 75 mg, I'm currently on 75), but even on lower dosages, I felt significantly better than being unmedicated. I was on a wide array of antidepressants & antipsychotics until about a year ago. I decided to go off of all medication completely after playing around with different meds for 6 years. Though I felt better overall, I still felt that my low moods or adverse life experiences were beating me down more than I thought they should, and still felt helpless. After starting lamictal, I felt significantly better to the point that I no longer fit into the criteria for BPD. It's been about 7 months since starting, and my life has never been more fulfilling & I have never had so much confidence in myself, & most importantly, no more active suicidal thoughts. Here's to more life!"

• Marie
• November 14, 2021

"Yes.. although I was prescribed Lamotrigine for epilepsy brought on by alcoholism, it enabled me to being able to get sober and stay sober. I could cope with the ups and downs of life without feeling the need to drink, this is since I’ve been on this medication. It changed my life 100%."

• Anonymous
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• September 16, 2021

"This med really did save my life! I didn’t know how much I needed it until I was on it. If you suffer from mood cycles then this will be so impactful on your life. I feel grounded in a way I never thought possible. I can get through my day without finding something to sob about. I can clean my house and not spend 6 hours working myself up to it. I can make decisions without being completely driven by emotion. But greatest of all, I am HAPPY."

• FireF...
• August 7, 2020

"Lamotrigine sounded like a great drug at first, it doesn't affect your sexual health, it doesn't make you emotionally numb, and I imagine it helps a lot of people. PLEASE DON'T LET THIS SCARE YOU But unfortunately, for me, according to my doctor it had a very bad reaction once I moved up to 100mg that unfortunately landed me in hospital and rendered me unable to function properly for the next two weeks. It was due to my genetic profile and medication sensitivity that caused my body to reject the drug, If you are sensitive to higher doses to medication generally or get extreme anxiety with your borderline I highly recommend getting pharmacogenomic testing or a genetic profile for the medication (in Australia it is not that expensive) before taking this medication. What happened to me was rare but can happen, and I don't want anyone else to go through what I went through But in saying this please don't be scared to try this medication, because it has worked wonders for so many people."

• Shay
• February 10, 2014

"I immediately noticed how it balanced out my moods to a more stable baseline and helped with early morning depression and afternoon depression mood swings. The more I increased the dosage, the better the results. I currently take 150mg daily. I find it more beneficial to split the dosage between morning and afternoon. Although I still have impulsive behaviors. I don't expect pharmaceuticals to be the cure all and therapy should help minimize my impulsive reactions. PS: Costco discount brings my RX to be about $8 for 30 tablets which is amazing!"

• Lano
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• February 21, 2019

"I can only recommend this. Before this medication I wasn't able to function like a regular human being. The mood swings and everything, it was terrible. I been taking it for like two months, now I am on 150 mg a day, and I feel so much better. I can finally function because my moods have gotten so much more stable than before. I am thankful that my psychiatrist prescribed it to me, because I can't imagine, where I would be now, if I didn't get help back then."

• Anonymous
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• January 19, 2018

"Lamictal has been a life changer. I suffered every single symptom of Borderline and, after reaching my therapeutic dose of 200 mg, it completely changed my life. Now it wasn't really effective for my anxiety but it abolished my depression, severe mood changes, feelings of emptiness, fear of abandonment, etc. Now those still break thru and that's where therapy comes in but lamictal is a necessity. The only thing that will make me come off of it is if I'm in danger of glaucoma"

• Lissre
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• December 9, 2015

"This drug has saved me. I've been diagnosed with quite a few things (borderline, depression, generalized anxiety, and PTSD). While this medication hasn't helped with my anxiety, it has helped tremendously with the three others. After trying 5 medications, this is the only one to have helped. And best of all, for once no side effects. I finally feel like myself again."

• Vse
• June 23, 2017

"I was put on this whilst in a psychiatric ward, after years of antidepressants and antipsychotics. When I was finally prescribed lamotrigine it was amazing I took it along with antipsychotics and I felt a great decrease in fits of rage and destruction. After taking this for almost a year, being on a 175mg a day for the last 6 months. My life is better than ever, with a lessening of suicidal ideation. Overall it helped me so much, and I would highly recommend it to anyone else with BPD"

• Anon
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• August 8, 2018

"I was an inpatient in rehab for a dual diagnosis of Borderline Personality disorder (BDP) and addiction, prior to which I had attempted suicide 3 times. I was always very impulsive and my mood swings were severe so I would flip out before even considering implementing therapy. I am now 20 years old and Lamotragine (200 mg a day) was a miracle drug for me and since taking it everything in my life has started to turn around, but therapy has played a big part also. Fortunately this drug is covered by the NHS when prescribed."

• Alex
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• November 4, 2022

"Like the user below, I also take 150mg Wellbutrin in the morning and 100mg Lamictal at night (I'm 27F, 5'6 and 120lbs for reference). Due to these meds, I feel like a "normal" person now for the first time in my entire life. I have been on this combo for over a year and have virtually no side effects and have been able to have a stable job, friendships, relationships, and life. It has been a freaking miracle. Please try this if everything else has failed for you, this is probably the 20th medication I have tried, I even had TMS therapy and nothing else has worked for me besides these two meds!"

• cupcake
• March 14, 2017

"I started on 25mg of lamictal and initially it did not do anything for me until I slowly increased the dosage in the past few months. I am now at 150mg and I would say this medication has helped me immensely. I am no longer in a deep depression, I can manage my moods better, and my anxiety.. the chest pressure feeling I would get in my chest all day and every day as well as the obsessive thoughts and worry are extremely decreased. I feel like a normal human being now. From time to time I would get sad, but it is not anywhere close to what it used to be. This drug is amazing. I feel like upping the dosage to 200mg would make this perfect, but we shall wait and see with my psychiatrist this week. :)"

• Anonymous
• Taken for 5 to 10 years
• April 4, 2016

"There has never been a better medication for me to help contain my moods. I am a very emotional person and go from one extreme to the other from morning to night. My doctor says I am not bipolar, but that I have borderline personality disorder. I am also anorexic. This medication helps manage my mood. I would not be able to go from day to day without this! I have been on 225mgs for 5 years. No side effects that I am aware of. I wish I could go higher on the dose but it interferes with birth control medication (estrogen)."

• Shelly
• December 14, 2021

"I have Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) apparently I have been ill for 15 years now. I have tried a cocktail of meds I have been in quetiapine 13 years and amitriptyline and zoloft and it controlled some of the symptoms but I was still not well fully I asked for moodstablizers in 2013 in hospital doctor said there is no such drug lol I have new doctor for 4 years I asked for a moodstablizers. I got lamotrigine 200mg and OMG I'm a different girl I haven't been able to look anyone in the eyes since I was young teenager 25 years and now I can look anyone in the eye I love that. Try these because they have changed everything for me . Good luck"

• sh1nob
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• October 27, 2020

"Hope everyone before and after me here will eventually get better. I have severe BPD with predominant depressive/ suicidal episodes and anger. I'm also very anxious and anxiety gives me depersonalization episodes. So I was prescribed with lamotrigine as a mood stabilizer and it supposed to help with derealization episodes somehow. At first it seemed to work, depression was not that deep and derealization seemed to be gone like as I was a kid again. But eventually after three weeks I've noticed that it all got much worse depressive/ aggressive wise. I also started getting chills and shivering with headaches. Last thing I wanted to add - don't mix it with anything like weed or alcohol. My MD said I may smoke, but when I did I had severe panic attacks and something that felt like psychosis. To be clear , I smoke occasionally for 5 years already and I've never got such feelings from weed."

• Michael
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• April 13, 2023

"This medicine saved my life. I've been on 300 mg for a year. I have taken up to 20 medications in the past. I found the one medication that has worked which is Valium but the medical professionals refused to give it to me. I was also refused to be given something for my horrible ADHD. Instead, I was put on pretty much anything you can think of - Xanax, Klonopin, Paxil, Lexapro, Seroquel, Conazipine, you get the point. I was diagnosed with BPD at 32 years old at the same time as ADHD. My whole life made sense but I had nobody left who cared. So I attempted suicide. I almost died after taking a two-month supply of Seroquel and Lexapro. I was put into an inpatient program and was given lamotrigine. It played a huge role in my feeling better about life. It was like a switch went off in my head. Suddenly I had so much more control over my moods. I was finally able to hold on to the best version of myself. The anger no longer took the forefront. BPD is still a hindrance in my life but I can see the sunshine because of this drug."

• AB92
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• August 14, 2018

"Really wanted this medication to work for me since it doesn’t cause weight gain... for the most part my mood did level out but the side effects were unbearable for me so I am now slowly going off it. I get severe nausea and flu-like body aches. I actually lost about 10 lbs trying to take this for about 6 months because I was so sick I could barely eat anything. I am giving up now unfortunately."

• Nev
• March 3, 2021

"I am diagnosed with BPD and ADHD. The first time I ever took Lamotrigine I felt like a new person completely, even my friends noticed how I was all of a sudden level headed and not as restless etc. Unfortunately this feeling soon disappeared no matter how much I went up on the dosage :( But this is still a very good drug and helps my anger/rage very well. I've also noticed that when I miss a dosage, I drop into much more of a depression so it must help stabilise my mood more than I realise. Overall very good medication with NO side effects for me. (I take 250mg a day along with Aripiprizole and Elvanse)"

• DRano
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• September 23, 2022

"I started Lamotrigine three months ago. I am up to 100mg twice a day and will increase soon. What I loved about it is it was subtle to start, no side effects for me at all. I started very low, worked my way up. I used to react and lose my temper so easily, get depressed over the littlest things, I was unpredictable. Now my coworkers and friends have noticed my more positive attitude, and more importantly - I don't react as bad - for a while before this medication I was concerned about losing my job. I have a high stress job and it feels good to have a positive outlook. I still have anxiety and am starting an additional medication for that. But I love feeling more, should I say- stable. It takes a while to really see results and honestly I didn't notice it dramatically, I just one day realized for weeks I was different- in the best way. It is subtle changes- be patient!"

• danbu
• March 15, 2016

"I got diagnosed with borderline personality disorder not too long ago. I had never used any type of meications before I got lamotrigine prescribed and honestly it has worked wonders on me. Before I had strong mood swings which went from morning depression to extended periods of anxiety. After I started taking the meds my anxiety has gone down a lot, I no longer have morning depression and overall it has helped me out with no side effects aside from my short term memory but it isn't too bad."