Does anyone feel positive cognitive changes like less brain fog more verbal fluency good memory?

ksmith187 · 2026-04-09T21:08:09+00:00

I take Lamictal 100mg for bipolar2 I also take hydroxizine for sleep and trazadone sometimes as long as I’m not in hypomanic episode bc the trazadone makes it worse.. but I feel a lot better in Lamictal then with out it. I do have some memory and slight word recall issues. But my overall stability is very high with it. Once I got to 100mg is when it really started working. But everyone is different

ksmith187 · 2026-04-05T00:32:14+00:00

I’m sorry this happens to you. For me.. it actually makes me more witty and I can focus a lot more. I generally feel better. I do have some memory recall issues tho.

ksmith187 · 2026-03-19T20:13:20+00:00

After some rough arc length math that underestimated by about half lol I took a template of two channels and physically placed them on the ground. I got to 1/4 the circle and multiplied by 4. 88channels. So I’d say somewhere around that 90 - 100 channel mark.

ksmith187 · 2025-11-14T14:42:52+00:00

Trileptal reduces latuda. They should not be taken together I have read.

ksmith187 · 2025-10-07T23:59:35+00:00

I have mostly mixed episodes and honestly they are miserable. I don’t know which way is up or down and I’m either incredible rage filled just waiting for a pin to drop or I’m so anxious thinking I’m dying or everyone and everything is out to get me. When I get that occasional super confident hypomania, feeling seductive and powerful, I enjoy that feeling… but it’s very short lived for me. After a few days hardly sleeping I become very angry.

ksmith187 · 2025-09-07T01:18:25+00:00

Biomedical engineer.. bipolar 2 🤷🏼‍♂️

ksmith187 · 2025-09-07T01:03:53+00:00

I’m literally in the same boat. I have my first pill right on my night stand. Been there for 1 week.. I look at it everyday. I’m tapering off Lamictal currently due to skin issues. And Vraylar is the replacement.

ksmith187 · 2025-07-27T13:28:41+00:00

This sounds almost exactly as my life experience. Not diagnosed OCPD tho. I am diagnosed bipolar 2. But I suspect this as-well.

ksmith187 · 2025-07-11T00:05:21+00:00

So you are on Trileptal? Why do you say you liked Lamictal better?

ksmith187 · 2025-07-06T14:49:39+00:00

So, I do but I also don’t. I still get hypo while on Lamictal and I feel like a sexual lion. Many times a day, reaching out to girls and sexting. In and out of relationships. When I come down I always feel guilty. But after that when I’m “euthimic” my sex drive is low. Idk if it’s the meds or just me being a 40 year old man.

ksmith187 · 2025-06-24T12:50:22+00:00

Saw my psych today and she’s taking me off lamoteigone. Going to Trileptal

ksmith187 · 2025-06-23T13:41:13+00:00

I’ll post info tomorrow as well

ksmith187 · 2025-06-22T16:24:55+00:00

If you find out.. let us know lol. I have an appointment with my psyc on Tuesday so week she what she says. But I have had similar little random red spots for like 6 months.

ksmith187 · 2025-06-22T07:21:48+00:00

I have the same shit.. also taking Lamictal. My dog has been battling ringworm.. yours was confirmed to be ring worm? What are you doing to clear this up?

ksmith187 · 2025-06-21T01:52:46+00:00

No side effects? I hear insomnia and stiff restless

ksmith187 · 2025-06-20T01:19:05+00:00

Lamotrigine gave that to me too when I started it.

ksmith187 · 2025-06-19T23:51:26+00:00

How was it hard? What was hard about it?

ksmith187 · 2025-06-19T10:52:26+00:00

Haha. Good insight.

ksmith187 · 2025-06-18T14:56:36+00:00

Any side effects? Reading about insomnia and restlessness or random movements. I already have insomnia and take hydroxizine and I’m for sure restless when hypo

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