lamactil withdrawal symptons

I recently lost my insurance so I cannot afford to go to the doctor to renew my medications. I have emailed the doctor to tell her that I lost my insurance and to please help me because I am scared. I am currently going "cold-turkey" from Lamictal, Effexor and Klonopin. I'm scared. I don't want to die, but how else will this go away? I have gone without Effexor for a few days before, but never like this. I know that "brain zaps" have to be from the Effexor. The Lamictal withdrawal is what is so scary. I keep losing time. I find myself some place and I don't remember why I was there or how long I was there. Just, completely confused. I shoplifted at a Walmart and got caught and they were yelling at me asking me questions that I just couldn't answer. I am a logical and highly educated person--I've never participated in any such horrible behaviors. They asked me how long I had been in the store--I couldn't remember. They went through my wallet and read my personal documents and receipts that I collect as part of my OCD and they took them from me and did not give them back. So, now I have pulled all the skin off my fingers with tweezers trying to figure out what is happening to me. 3 or 4 days prior my mom called police because she thought I was going to kill myself. I don't want to die, but I'm so scared. Headaches, sounds, hallucinations, loss of time and pure disgust and shame. I don't even recognize myself. I don't understand my horrible and unacceptable behavior. I'm so ashamed and embarrassed. I'm all alone. I am literally ruining my life. All my years of education and hard work are getting flushed down the toilet and it's like I don't know who I am or why I can't remember doing things or why I'm doing them. This shouldn't be allowed to happen to people. I can't function at a reasonable level at all. I know this is not who I am and I'm not insane. The meds are evil. I know there is no excuse for my poor behavior, but I honestly don't know what is happening to me. I'm so disoriented. I'm confused. I end up places or wondering around and I don't remember getting there or why I went there. I swear, I'm not crazy. These meds are going to kill me. I'm a grown woman, but obviously I need a babysitter or to me restrained because of my bad behavior and thoughts of suicide just to make all the bad go away.

I was on Lamictal for over 18 months. 50mg once a day. I moved to another state, and the new doc diagnosed me with BP II which no one else ever has. When I moved, I was in a very happy place. I was away from the town I did not want to live in due to a move and a divorce, I graduated, and got my dream job. I drove a big moving truck alone, and I was feeling great! I was hoping to just get off this med altogether, but the new doc decided I should amp up to 200 mg. Well, I went into a rage that got me kicked out of grad school the third week in because I cursed out the porfessor. I gained 30 pounds, hair loss; I can't find my car in parking lots, I forget everything all the time, no good, I'm a professor myself, angry and will pop off real quick. The doc's office will not return calls for a month, so I talked to the pharmacist, and he is weaning me from 200mg down until I see the new doc. I was at 200mg for 30 days, then 150, 100, and today I'm at 75. I'm going every two weeks. I'm going to stay at 75mg till I see the new doc. So far, at 150 I was tired, headaches, ear buzz, and still mean as hell. 100mg, headache, tingles in my legs. 75 today, foggy, and drunk feeling. I'm not hungry, but I am nibbling on stuff here and there. Long story short...hahahaha...I was mad as hell, itchy, chills, face breaking out like mad, 30lb weight gain, lips peeling, headache, and all of this has me feeling worse than when I started taking it. It's generic that has me feeling this way!!! Anyway, as soon as I see the new doc, I
m coming off. I don't need my mood stabilized. I'm away from the ex-husband from hell, away from that toxic city, even though I can't move back home, but I moved to a place I love, I have the job I've been working towards for 13-years, I have a beautiful place to live, great friends, but I can't enjoy any of it because of this damn med. Good luck to all of us! We got this!

I was on Lamictal for 4 years, I quit it cold turkey & went through hell: extreme anxiety, felling dizzy, loss of balance, problems focusing, stuttering, lack of coordination, I thought I would get into car accident or lose my job or both. I thought it's easier to die. But I'm fine now! I think clear & feel like really myself after 4 years in fog. Yes, you will feel horrible, but it won't last forever. You will get back to normal after your neurotransmitters repair damage done. I'm happy I quit Lamictal & Wellbutrin a month prior to that. People, don't take psychotropics, you don't need them. Your brain is resilient & perfect. Don't get into trap of pharmaceutical business & let a little pill control you.

I have the same. I have been taking 300mg a day for 7 years. I feel like I can't quit because even after a few hours of being "low" I can barely function. Buzzing face and lips. Disorientation. Nausea. It sucks. Not sure if I can make it below 100mg/ day.

Just warning people, I went off it cold turkey and on the eleventh day I woke up in the hospital being told I had seizures.

How long were you on it? What dosage?

How long were you in it? What dosage?

What was your taper?

I too am worried about this. How did things go?

What dosage we’re you on?