Nightmares on Lamotrogine: Anyone Else?

Hi everybody. I just started Lamotrogine for bipolar treatment. About 2 days after I started at the lowest dosage, I began to experience extremely disruptive nightmares 9/10 times I fell asleep. This includes naps and also meant I’d wake up about 4 times a night. Luckily, I’m in the middle of a manic episode so I don’t mind the lack of sleep but it is very annoying as I don’t get a whole lot of nightmares. I can deal with vivid dreams but waking up terrified isn’t fun. I stopped taking it without consulting my doctor and the nightmares immediately went away that night. Has anybody else experienced this? I googled it and I could only find a single medical journal that described this happening so quickly and on such a low dosage.

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Wishes

2y ago

I take Trazodone at night for the racing thoughts and nightmares that wake me. It helps a lot, my nightmares aren’t as often, but I’m still up several times a night

Alinaa

2y ago

Thank you all so much!!!

will24

2y ago

yes! they go away! it took about 2 weeks for me. i've been on lamictal for a long time and the benefits definitely outweigh the downsides. talk to your doctor and see if they can't prescribe you something for them in the interim, or if you can't do something meditative at night to reduce their frequency

Grumpy_Grape

2y ago

Omg same for me I’m in the middle of a hupomanic episode was taken off vraylar on a very low dose of lamotrigine. The nightmare I had last night felt like it was on acid In the past minipress has worked for me too (I have PTSD also) so I’m going back to that

Annie24

2y ago

Yes I have too, and they put me on minipress nightly. That helps a lot for me. Please tell your doctor right away. They can help. Be careful about which meds you stop because some may have harmful effects if you cut cold turkey without tapering off slowly :)

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