Posted by bleauberry on April 5, 2012, at 5:29:52
In reply to How exactly does Lamictal work?, posted by rjlockhart04-08 on April 4, 2012, at 13:55:27
Nobody knows exactly how lamictal works. Same with most meds. We have identified some of the crude generalized mechanisms, but that is not helpful. It does not explain why one person might feel better, another feel worse, another feel nothing. I like armchair quarterbacking, but honestly all the knowledge we have of our meds (which is practically nill) is of little use. Only a personal trial tells us what we need to know. I guess basiclaly we could say lamictal somehow smooths out electrical signals, thus useful sometimes for seizures. How that ties into depression, when we can't even explain why depression is, well that's a mystery we can only hypothesize about. Lamictal does have some sort of mechanism on dopamine and serotonin, but when it is helpful to someone I would guess it is a combination of multiple mechanisms not any single mechanism.
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