{"id":570,"date":"2009-01-03T21:59:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T21:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2009\/01\/03\/bipolar-disorder-medications-lamictal-or-should-i-say-generic-lamotrigine\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:01:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:01:29","slug":"bipolar-disorder-medications-lamictal-or-should-i-say-generic-lamotrigine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-medications-lamictal-or-should-i-say-generic-lamotrigine\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder Medications: Lamictal (or should I say-  generic Lamotrigine!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I have been traveling for a week- first to Texas and now in Florida.  It has been great, but I have had a lot of sleep and medication problems. <\/p>\n<p>I am really uncomfortable as I write this- I have what I call the Lamictal twitches and I feel like I\u2019m going to crawl out of my skin. I hate it. I\u2019m pretty sure I took my dose this morning, so this is odd. It\u2019s amazing how uncomfortable these side effects can be. It\u2019s hard to live with sometimes- but the Lamictal is worth it for me. <\/p>\n<p>Actually, I should say Lamotrigine as I am now on the generic.  Who knows if the side effects worsened because of the medication change. I have not seen a change in my moods, so that is all that matters. There is a big discussion on the generic Lamictal on the blog- if you go to the right side menu and click on Lamictal, you can see all of the entries. <\/p>\n<p>OK. I have to stand up or I am going to twitch out of my chair! <\/p>\n<p>Julie <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I have been traveling for a week- first to Texas and now in Florida. It has been great, but I have had a lot of sleep and medication problems. <\/p>\n<p>I am really uncomfortable as I write this- I have what I call the Lamictal twitches and I feel like I\u2019m going to crawl out of my skin. I hate it. I\u2019m pretty sure I took my dose this morning, so this is odd. It\u2019s amazing how uncomfortable these side effects can be. It\u2019s hard to live with sometimes- but the Lamictal is worth it for me. <\/p>\n<p>Actually, I should say Lamotrigine as I am now on the generic. Who knows if the side effects worsened because of the medication change. I have not seen a change in my moods, so that is all that matters. There is a big discussion on the generic Lamictal on the blog- if you go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-medications-lamictal-or-should-i-say-generic-lamotrigine\/\">[ Read More ]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12099,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/12099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}