Posted by SLS on December 3, 2020, at 9:41:19
In reply to Re: lamical success, posted by Petermartin on November 30, 2020, at 23:52:07
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> > Taking GSK Lamictal once a day does not work well for me. I begin to feel a drop-off at the end of the dosing period.
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> Scott, are you taking 300 again or 200?
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> I'm back on brand and have been trying to get by w 200 since they used to work (actually 150 did). Ive gone as high as 350 for brief periods when on the generic (ineffective) though.
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> If you take 300 how do you split it? 150am/150pm? Have you tried 100am, 100lunch, 100pm?
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>I take Lamictal 300 mg/day as 150 mg twice a day.
I tried the original Teva lamotrigine generic. I thought it was as good as Lamictal name brand. However, I was taking 200 mg/day at the time, so I can't say for sure that Teva and GSK were really equally effective. I'm sure they were close. Mylan was terrible. In order to get any kind of improvement, I had to take 500 mg/day. Even that dosage didn't approach as much of as an improvement as GSK. In addition, it felt rather dirty. I felt muddy and flat.
Unfortunately, Teva is out of the generic lamotrigine business. They are a rather stupid company with its choices of acquisitions. Their original lamotrigine generic was IR only, and manufactured at their own factories. However, they acquired a company that also manufactured lamotrigine, but in an XR version. Teva decided to allow their acquisition to be responsible for the manufacture of geneneric lamotrigine. I don't know why they discontinued it, but their might have been some law suits involved
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