Lamictal and shakiness

I used to take this medication about two years ago. I do remember I was a little bit more sweaty on it, but I don’t remember having heart palpitations. I started this medication to help with my non-epileptic seizures. I’m weaning off of keppra right now so I’m assuming maybe the mix of the Keppra and the Lamictal is confusing my body. When I check my heart rate on my Apple Watch it’s not that high. It goes up to about 110 but once I do some deep breathing, it goes back down to around 50 to 60 bpm. Also my BP is almost perfect 121/80. I started at 25 mg. And I’m going to go up to 50 mg next week. I’m only taking the medication at night around 6 PM. I did just come out of the ICU (I was only only in two days for my seizure) and I am currently on a pretty heavy period. I guess what I’m trying to ask is is it normal to have heart palpitations and sweating at the beginning of taking this medication. I don’t remember how it affected me two years ago. I’m just making sure it’s nothing too serious. Last night at Denny’s I started to get out of breath and shaky and dizzy. My heart rate was 74. But it went away once we went home. So I’m assuming it’s not an arrhythmia just bad anxiety . I just hate starting new medication cause I never know how it’s going to affect me. I have depression anxiety borderline personality disorder OCD. I do want to clarify that when I used to take this medication it helped out a lot. The only reason I quit taking it was due to a very difficult break up and a battle with alcoholism. I used to take 200mg of this stuff 😂.

*repost* 20F, non smoker, currently taking wellbutrin, lamictal, and multivitamin. No previous medical issues.
Hey! For the past few years Ive been dealing with what I call “episodes” where i just feel like shit. It happens a few times a day, everyday, but more often when i’m active/didnt sleep well. My symptoms are as follows -dizziness -flushed face -shakiness -irritable -feeling like passing out I’ve seen a doctor for this and she said it sounds like a low blood sugar issue. She ran blood work both fasting and non fasting and a1c as well as current glucose came back normal. I also saw a cardiologist to check for blood pressure issues/POTS but everything came back fine. She sent me home with a glucose monitor but every time ive checked my glucose is in the normal range, even if im having an episode. The weird part is, eating makes me feel better… at least it does temporarily. I’ve altered my diet a lot and don’t eat carb-heavy meals/super sugary snacks that could cause spikes, then drops. I eat very healthy and have small meals frequently so it’s not like im skipping meals. I just don’t understand why this continues to happen? All my tests come back perfectly fine but I still feel like crap. I’m doing everything correctly to take care of the issue yet it continues to happen. I am tired of dealing with this every single day and would really appreciate some insight. Is it truly a blood sugar problem if everything seems normal? Thanks for reading lol!

20F, non smoker, currently taking wellbutrin, lamictal, and multivitamin. No previous medical issues.
Hey! For the past few years Ive been dealing with what I call “episodes” where i just feel like shit. It happens a few times a day, everyday, but more often when i’m active/didnt sleep well. My symptoms are as follows -dizziness -flushed face -shakiness -irritable -feeling like passing out I’ve seen a doctor for this and she said it sounds like a low blood sugar issue. She ran blood work both fasting and non fasting and a1c as well as current glucose came back normal. I also saw a cardiologist to check for blood pressure issues/POTS but everything came back fine. She sent me home with a glucose monitor but every time ive checked my glucose is in the normal range, even if im having an episode. The weird part is, eating makes me feel better… at least it does temporarily. I’ve altered my diet a lot and don’t eat carb-heavy meals/super sugary snacks that could cause spikes, then drops. I eat very healthy and have small meals frequently so it’s not like im skipping meals. I just don’t understand why this continues to happen? All my tests come back perfectly fine but I still feel like crap. I’m doing everything correctly to take care of the issue yet it continues to happen. I am tired of dealing with this every single day and would really appreciate some insight. Is it truly a blood sugar problem if everything seems normal? Thanks for reading lol!

Hello! I would like to start off by saying I’m not relying on the internet to diagnose me, I am starting therapy and have a psychiatrist. Over the course of 3 years I have been diagnosed twice with bipolar 2 but also told I was not by 3 other doctors. When I was first told I had about a one/2 week period where I was so incredibly anxious I couldn’t leave the house. Like body shaking and mind racing constantly. I worked through it with a therapist and got better and lived relatively easy for 3 years until a few weeks ago when it happened again. Weirdly it was around the same time of year. Mind constantly racing, body feeling hot and shaky and just not great. I had a hard time sleeping because I couldn’t get my mind to shut up so that made it worse. I got prescribed zyprexa, it made me suicidal and constantly confused (couldn’t remember my family). I had about a week without it and felt basically baseline and happy. I then tried Lamictal for a few days and it put me into the deepest depression I’ve ever felt, and then started the anxiety again! Now I’m working through it again with therapy, but still having some trouble. If I’ve ever had hypomania it didn’t feel like anything too special, maybe a deep urge to clean the whole house in one day? I don’t get too crazy depressed normally either. I have never had problems with sleep, it’s actually my favorite thing. I used to be pretty impulsive with my hair but that stopped a few years ago. I just wanna see if anyone else has it like this? I feel like the medication I’ve recently tried made things way worse than without it. Thanks for reading this novel!

Starting this off by saying I know meds affect everyone differently!
I can’t take this anxiety anymore😭Been sitting on this prescription for eight months and I’m finally taking the jump and starting my first dose tonight. 5mg 2x daily, but was told I can start at 2.5mg if that made me more comfortable (although I’m starting at 5mg). My anxiety is debilitating, I’m sure some of you can relate. my intrusive thoughts are constant. Im at the point I can hardly leave my house, hold conversations without randomly panicking/crying, and the thought of making a phone call sends me into a spiral. And thats just a small version of what goes on…the pounding heart, the sweating, the shakiness. Always worried that something bad is going to happen to me. The social anxiety is the worst. It consumes everything and has taken over my life.
I take lamictal for seizures and mood stabilization which is effective, but I’ve never found an effective anxiety med that has worked for me, especially with social anxiety.
Has Buspirone helped any with your social anxiety? I’m desperate. I didn’t know my anxiety could reach this level. I just want to live life 😭 I’ve been in therapy for quite some time, my therapist has never pushed me to take meds, but I’ve came to the conclusion that theres no hurt in trying.. fingers crossed this med helps🤞🏼I want my life back

i’ve been on strattera for 17 days now, i’ve had a few side effects like when i first take it i feel like a bit more anxious like it’s mostly tolerable and also very dry mouth but i can deal with that lol. i’ve been taking my strattera around 1pm and i feel like it gives me a boost of energy and focus for maybe 2-5 hrs. also even though i have more focus and such, i feel like it makes me tired but it’s SO hard to tell bc im on other meds that can also cause slight tiredness but i feel like it’s happened more lately. ive seen a lot of people saying to take it at night and my psych even mentioned that to me before i started that i could take it at night if necessary bc it works differently in people so im wondering if i should start doing that ?
i have had insomnia for over a decade and im just worried that if i take it at night it’ll keep me up ? does anyone have any suggestions ?
i noticed sometimes when im like typing on my phone i just start focusing so hard on my keyboard for no reason, also i am a lot more shaky lately but ive always been shaky so it sucks a bit.
i feel like some days i wake up with more energy and im like ooooh i wanna do something fun like watch a certain show, do a hobby and if i don’t start doing within like 3 hrs i have completely lost interest in whatever im doing. i have very little interest in my hobbies lately which sucks but i do think strattera is helping me get back into my interests but there’s like only a certain time frame where i will enjoy and be willing to do something?
im also 22 / f / 126lbs on 36mg daily and it would be a bad idea for me to take stimulants with bipolar 2 so im really hoping side effects go down and that it will be more effective. really just wanna get my adhd in check.
i’m also on wellbutrin, prozac, lamictal, another that this server wont let me list lol? (it’s prescribed btw anxiety med) and also trazadone for sleep most nights, im basically a robot at this point …
anyways, if anyone can help or give me suggestions that would be great, especially the part where i ask if i should start taking it at night like some others do.

I started taking aritonin (4 mg) a few days ago and so far it doesn't do much for me. I take it around 10 pm but I still have no problems staying up until 3 am, just a bit more sleepy than usual. When I try to sleep I feel kind of more like I'm semi-conscious and just completely exhausted rather than asleep and wake up really easily. Today i fell asleep around 4 and woke up at 7 from my parents just talking in the next room, and couldn't sleep again. I'm SO tired and cranky right now, my vision is kind of unfocused and my hands are shaky but I'm physically incapable of taking naps so I'm just gonna suffer all day I guess lol.
Should maybe add that I take other medication as well (lamictal, wellbutrin, levityroxin) and probably have more unmedicated problems.
Should I talk to my doctor and say that it doesn't work or give it a week or two? Or take two pills instead of one? Doc said to take 1-2.

My wife has always said I can be very agitated. I thought it was depression, because I was/am certainly depressed.
2020/2021 now in my thirties I asked a general practitioner to be put back on Prozac, which I’d taken when I was in my early twenties. I eventually took myself off of it, but I can’t remember why or even when exactly. I also completely forgot that I had inherited money and spent it all on.. absolutely nothing really. Drugs? Pot mostly.
Anyway- back to 2020/2021. Doctor agrees. I feel high the first week I’m taking it. Love it. Feeling better, noticed that I tended to share things I wouldn’t have normally at work. Chalked it up to “opening up” and “feeling better”.
At this point in my life I had savings. I also had credit cards that I’d been responsible with.
Wife notes I’m more agitated. That maybe I need help.
2022 - debt has spiralled out of control. I’m not even sure how. My drinking is also out of control. I go to rehab for alcoholism. Get out, proceed to spend the better part of the year changing positions at work, getting sick and dealing with what I thought was just another gallbladder attack. In fall I somehow stopped even vaguely caring about the debt.
Beginning of 2023 found out my gallbladder had effectively shut down and I had surgery to remove it. Thought things were getting better for some reason. Credit cards are being closed because of non payment. The next few months until the end of July I’m agitated, get sent for a drug test at work, passed, finally so angry I quit my job on the spot.
New job, but still in contact with people from last job- find out friend and coworker commits suicide, and another friend and coworker dies unexpectedly from a heart attack. I can’t stop thinking about them. I stop my medications. (Prozac, buspar, naltrexone, synthroid)
Spent August until December struggling. Gave financial control to my wife finally after realizing something had gone wrong while on Prozac. I’m depressed and can’t believe what I’ve done.
Allergies increase, find out I’m histamine intolerant. See a psychiatrist finally in December and get put on Luvox. I react badly within three days. Temperature, shaky, seeing odd things out of the corner of my eyes. Off of that. He wants to try lamictal.
Terrified of it and not trusting him anymore after finding out SSRIs are a no-go for people with histamine intolerance/mast cell disorder and I decide on a second opinion first.
New psychiatrist and I are talking. Somehow steroids come about and I mention I always feel great on them. She chuckles and says “I bet you do”. I googled later and began slowly realizing that maybe my depression and “normal” periods have always been bp2. She hasn’t diagnosed yet but I knew it was on the table with last psychiatrist.
We do decide on lamictal and here I am, now at a week into 50mg and feeling… the most like “me” that I’ve felt in many years. I feel hopeful. Trying to calm anxiety over small rashes since I have them frequently with histamine issues. Want to stay on this as I’ve seen some improvement in my irritability and somewhat with my depression. Self care has went up.
I apologize for the long winded post. I guess I really just needed to vent and I’d love to hear if anyone has come about to this in a similar fashion. IE Prozac made you irritable and make terrible decisions, but you thought you were normal somehow. Never thought of being bipolar and then an “ah-ha” moment.

Idk if this will make sense so bare with me.
I took lamictal in high school for absence seizures and stopped taking it years ago when it looked like I grew out of them (I dont think I quit cold turkey, Im pretty sure I was weaned off). I just remember it tasting bad thats all. Now Im 27 and have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and after Abilify wasnt working for me my psychologist prescribed Lamictal since I had a history of using it.
I took 25 mg last night around 11pm for Day 1. I felt perfectly fine and normal all this morning until around 1 or 2 pm. Then it was like I hit a wall. I started feeling pressure in my head, like someone was squeezing my brain, random body aches, light headedness, dizziness, drowsiness, difficulty focusing and keeping my eyes focused, shaky hands and trembling, and confusion, as well as fatigue and aggravation. I honestly felt like I was about to have another absence seizure. My coworkers tried talking to me and I could barely understand them for a couple minutes. Is this normal? Its 445 now and Im starting to feel slightly better but I felt completely weird and out of it for about 2 hours or so.
I had a monster with breakfast and finished it with lunch around 11, could that have something to do with it? I have one every day and it hasnt been an issue before. Ive stayed hydrated and fed, but I still dont feel like I can drive. :/ I just need to know if this is normal, if it will pass, or if I need to contact my doctor. Thank you.

First things first: My doctor and therapist are aware of me going off my meds. I’m obviously not quitting my meds for fun, but because the side effects far outweighed the positive effects for me. I’m being closely monitored and will try different medications if/when needed.
Any advice on how to handle the first days and weeks, and what I can expect? It’s been about 40 hours since my last dose, and I’m really nauseous and shaky. I’ve been on 300mg Lamictal and 300mg Seroquel for about 2 years.
I woke up this morning without feeling like a zombie for the first time in 2 years, which was great. I was actually able to keep my eyes open, and didn’t feel all foggy and out of it. But then the nausea, fatigue and shaking started.
Any advice and sharing of experience welcome, I’m just feeling a bit rough and need to know that it gets better, and what to expect

Its been a while since I posted, but here's the deal;
I(21F) started Lamictal around July (for bipolar 2) and slowly been building up to a higher dose. 200mg was still not enough so we decided to do 300 starting after Christmas (200 morning, 100 night). Im healthy with no documentation about any heart problems, but I heard people have experienced "off" heartbeats. This has happened to me kinda before, but now I feel like my heartbeat is off all the time. A couple days ago it was very weird and my friend took my pulse and she was really concerned (said it didn't feel normal) and I had to lay down, basically almost fainted. Then afterward it's been a little quicker than usual or just feels weird. Ive been shaky and I also had a mix of a nightmare and a hallucination and scared my friend even more. Im planning on getting in contact with my doctor when I can to check it out. I originally didn't really think it was the medication but I've seen some people experience the same.
Sorry for the ranting, but basically I was wondering if anyone else have experienced something similar? And if so, is it normal? Ive seen a lot of different opinions.
Extra info; I did have a tendency to faint when I was a kid and its come back, I haven't properly fainted, just learned that I need to lay down. I also was convinced I was gonna die of a heart attack when I was a kid haha. But ye, I rant when im stressed and just wanted som personal opinions from others who might know more than be.

25F, 140 lbs, 5 foot 5 inches, never smoker, I take gabapentin (600 mg 3x a day for anxiety), Prozac (20 mg every morning for anxiety/depression), and lamictal (150 mg twice a day for mood), and my medical history/issues are listed with my symptoms. Thanks!
Symptoms: Fatigue, anxiety, depression, GI issues (acid reflux), itchy skin all over, rash from sun exposure when hot outside, shaky, naturally high heart rate, high cholesterol (prob just hereditary), chronic pain (most noticeable in back), congestion (could be allergies), anemia, very heavy periods that are regular but little to no cramps, bloated most of time, possible psoriasis/seborrheic dermatitis on scalp, night sweats, PMDD, get hives when stressed, brain fog, ischemic stroke/blood clot history (had several but none in about 10 years), easy shortness of breath even at rest.
For extra info, I’ve had Covid 4 times (while vaccinated). I’ve had my blood tested but I think just the basic tests.
What tests do you recommend I request? I was thinking ANA, full thyroid panel, and all my hormones at the very least.

I find that if I forget to take my medication in the morning, specifically, Lamictal, I feel like crap. I feel extremely dehydrated and water does not help, my hands are shaky and I’m exhausted.
I take 100 mg a day and have been on it for at least 3 1/2 years. I understand tapering on and off but it’s very odd to me how quickly this feeling comes. if I take it later in the day, then I am magically fine.
Has anyone felt this type of withdrawal within a short amount of time? I find that if I take it later in the day, then I am magically fine.

Hi all,
So I have adhd-c and lots of other comorbidities that involve anxiety disorders, bipolar disorders, schizo disorders and some ptsd to boot. I have tried adhd meds with no success. I am on lamictal and some anxiety meds though and while my moods have been better, I am still dealing with adhd issues. I try my best in accommodating myself.
Now, to get to it:
My significant other, of course isn’t perfect, but he is very responsible, very purposeful and intentional in everything he does. He has his Master’s, went to Ivy League schools, high GPA, brilliant at math and has loads of common sense, you get the idea.
I am a bit shaky in terms of that. I often say to him we are similar (in terms of personality) but different (in terms of how we perceive and interact with the world). Although I am responsible there are times I fall short way more often than him. Simple example: I express myself better in writing and I have delayed reactions to which it doesn't assist me in proper self-expression.
I have a bit of a successful career currently and I WFH but I have a failed career under my belt and only my associate’s.
Idk, I suppose I put him on a pedestal because of my own experiences. In school, I was pretty much the top of the food chain and was told I’d do great things and that I was so smart etc. Didn't need to study etc.
I just feel like I did not, or rather, have not lived up to my full potential and I’m not entirely sure how to do that as an adult.
TLDR: Pretty much my SO has everything together and I just feel like sometimes I lag behind and I feel sheepish. He’s never really said anything to me but sometimes I just feel I pale in comparison and have little to offer, though I know this isn't entirely true.
Any thoughts? Do any of you have this dynamic in your relationship?

Hi all,
So I have adhd-c and lots of other comorbidities that involve anxiety disorders, bipolar disorders, schizo disorders and some ptsd to boot. I have tried adhd meds with no success. I am on lamictal and some anxiety meds though and while my moods have been better, I am still dealing with adhd issues. I try my best in accommodating myself.
Now, to get to it:
My significant other, of course isn’t perfect, but he is very responsible, very purposeful and intentional in everything he does. He has his Master’s, went to Ivy League schools, high GPA, brilliant at math and has loads of common sense, you get the idea.
I am a bit shaky in terms of that. I often say to him we are similar (in terms of personality) but different (in terms of how we perceive and interact with the world). Although I am responsible there are times I fall short way more often than him. Simple example: I express myself better in writing and I have delayed reactions to which it doesn't assist me in proper self-expression.
I have a bit of a successful career currently and I WFH but I have a failed career under my belt and only my associate’s.
Idk, I suppose I put him on a pedestal because of my own experiences. In school, I was pretty much the top of the food chain and was told I’d do great things and that I was so smart etc. Didn't need to study etc.
I just feel like I did not, or rather, have not lived up to my full potential and I’m not entirely sure how to do that as an adult.
TLDR: Pretty much my SO has everything together and I just feel like sometimes I lag behind and I feel sheepish. He’s never really said anything to me but sometimes I just feel I pale in comparison and have little to offer, though I know this isn't entirely true.
Any thoughts? Do any of you have this dynamic in your relationship?

I'm a 39 year old female non-diabetic. I have a history of having episodes here and there of (self diagnosed) reactive hypoglycemia when I was younger. It was usually a drop in blood sugar about 2 hours after a high carb breakfast. Once I learned what caused it I was able to avoid that situation by either not eating breakfast or making sure carbs are paired with plenty of protein. I have changed my way of eating over the last 10 years and have lost 110 lbs, a lot of it from keto and intermittent fasting (I got the lap band about 12 years ago but I didn't really start losing until keto) I haven't done keto in a few years but still do some intermittent fasting and am careful about my macro ratios. My most recent labs from last years physical show an A1C of 4.9% and estimated average glucose of 94.
So over the last few months I have noticed some symptoms mostly in the afternoon at work. I feel disoriented and hot and my ears start ringing. I was diagnosed with ADHD within the last year and have been trialing some stimulants. I was at first attributing my afternoon symptoms to my meds wearing off early, but after trying a few different regimens, the symptoms didn't improve. Then I started to notice I was sometimes getting shaky and my hands didn't want to work as well. I was also stuttering sometimes and kind of felt drunk. I decided to stop my stimulant to rule that out as a cause, but my symptoms have persisted. So finally I ordered a glucometer and started doing some pre and post meal readings. It has only been a couple of days, but the highest reading I've been able to get is 120 after purposefully trying to raise it by drinking a coke and eating a candy bar. All my pre and post meal measurements have shown an immediate drop in blood sugar. It doesn't seem to matter if it's a low carb/high protein meal. Last night at dinner it was 81 before eating. As soon as I started eating I started feeling weird. Took about 30 minutes to eat and I immediately checked and it was 73. I just can't figure out an explanation for it. I can feel the drop happening within my first few bites.
A few recent readings: 79 before breakfast, 66 immediately after. 95 before dinner, 77 immediately after. 90 before lunch, 71 immediately after. If I check about 2 hours later it's typically back up to around 90. My fasting sugar this morning is 70.
Any ideas on what this could be? I'm definitely going to make a doctor's appointment. Of course I'm googling like crazy. I came across insulinomas and am wondering about that. Not sure if my symptoms match, but my mom died of pancreatic cancer 2 years ago so I'm paranoid. Do we call it reactive hypoglycemia when the readings fail to show no initial spike in blood sugar? What would cause my blood sugar to drop as soon as i start eating?
*Edited to add that I take buproprion 150mg, lamictal 150mg, and daily long term prevacid for GERD

I can’t get out of this fu##%ing nightmare. I’m getting a brain scan done soon. My therapist suggested I get one done, she explained dissociative disorders show up on it. Parts of the brain that’s active or not active. I hope that helps but I’m starting to lose hope that it’s going to go away. I feel like I’m going to be stuck like this. I know I’ve felt like this before and it went away. Every morning I’ve been waking up with adrenaline rushes where I feel sweaty and my heart feels fast and I feel shaky. I don’t think I’m actually even shaking it just feels like I’m shaky. I’ve missed too much work, that’s not an option to call out anymore, if I keep doing that I’m going to lose my job. I really like my job I just feel so much fear in my body. I don’t feel attached, sometimes I’m sucked to the back of my head and I’m just observing. I can’t connect with my body or thoughts. Sometimes it feels like the voice in my head is just gone OR I’ll hear voices that aren’t my inner dialogue, or I’ll think but I can’t comprehend what I’m thinking or what people are saying. It’s like the lights are on but nobody’s home type of thing. I’m hyper aware of my existence and consciousness. Thinking about it too much makes me feel caulstrophobic in my body. That scares me because I can’t escape my self, my body. I feel completely numb to my emotions and my body, it feels dangerous to me because I don’t feel like anything can hurt me, when I look out my second story window I think I could just hop out and not even feel the fall, just get up and walk back upstairs where I started. Driving is nearly impossible with the intrusive thoughts.
I’ve had this since I was a child but it’s been episodic. My earliest memory with it I was 6 watching Care Bears and I felt like I was floating above myself. I’d get it off and on when I’m stressed. I remember freaking out as a child feeling OBE, loosing time or thinking existential thoughts. This is the longest episode I’ve had. It started getting bad about 3(?) months ago. This past summer was pretty horrible but I don’t think it should still be effecting me.
I’ve been on lexapro, Buspirone and now I’m on lamictal. I’ve been in therapy for about a year. Trying anything I can to get better. Taking vitamins, staying hydrated, making myself get out of bed, ashwanganda pills, journaling, dunking my face in ice, PMR meditation, yoga, etc. I need help, Any tips on making this go away?

To begin, I have taken my 100mg of lamictal since the beginning of this story, and I'm already feeling much better, so no worries.
So, lemme back up a moment to say my ADHD and a damaged memory from alcoholism caused me to forget to take my meds while talking to a close friend about my 'new' therapist, despite the reminder going off on my phone, and my wife teminding me once more. I had this therapist for alcohol counseling a few years ago and I don't feel like we're a good fit, but until my better insurance kicks in from my new/old job I'm stuck with state insurance and their appropriately limited selection.
This morning while walking into the plant, I passed a person in which whom I have to control my temper any time I see him, because when I was still drinking, my wife had left and this person, who was a close friend at the time, offered to sleep with my wife.
Fortunately, my wife never would have considered cheating on me, but it's clearly the principle and disloyalty of the offer was enough for me to have some very violent intentions.
Obviously, we are far from friends now, and staring at him wasn't enough today. I had to shout "f*** off!", when he nodded at me. I then proceeded to send a threatening text, unsend it, download a burner app, and look in my contacts to see that I was wise enough to delete his number. A few seconds later, I'm yelling to myself that a large group didn't all move aside to give ME room to walk through a narrow aisle, one of which was my friend and union rep. I myself was a rep for 5 years, and at least a couple years right alongside him, so he always deserves more respect from me than that, even though he was way too far to even hear me complaining.
Once I realized I'm getting shaky and far too irritable, I called my wife to explain my situation. She came to the rescue with my meds, and my supervisor was understanding enough to let me leave without any negative consequences aside from my obvious loss of hours today.
The terrifying drive home was wonderful for moments here and there until I forgot where we were for a moment, then couldn't imagine any of the world or my reality outside my field of vision, while in our own neighborhood. Panic attack ensues, but only for a few moments, as my fears melted away when I walked inside and saw our white Christmas tree that reminds me of my grandma's house back in Brightmoore.
At that moment, I started trying to talk about everything I was thinking, but it just came out a mess. I started to feel like I had every emotion at once, then a carousel of mood swings. At one moment, I'm happy as a clam, playing the Uke as beautifully as I can, talking about way too many weird thoughts, like everyone else was on the ball today, but I'm on a rhombus, then I was "the flat top of a pyramid, sitting cross-legged and meditating until I float". Next thing, I'm terrified that everyone knows I'm being life this and I'm being way too much for Kerry and she's getting overwhelmed because of me, thwn back to being excited about life because everyone loves me. Oh, andblest we forget thebrandom fits of anxiety with 'what do we do if this ever happens, what about that happening, what are we gonna do if tragedy strikes, blah blah blah'.
This was quite the experience, and I feel very fortunate that the only bad thing that happened to anyone was me losing 8 hours pay that I'm not exactly in dire need of.
I just wanted to share my little tale. It was a terrifyingly wonderful experience to feel all that so quickly, but I genuinely NEVER want to do that again. My wife and I agreed that I'm going to start having a witness, so I do have to rely on a faulty memory and distractions that constantly happen for me.

Is anybody else extremely suffering with visual snow syndrome, I am 24 year old male and first got tinnitus around 2016, then I think I noticed the visual snow afterwards. I have done lots of research on this and read about other people that have it but its like my brain fog is most extreme, like I could even live with all the symptoms if it wasn't for that. I have visual snow, ringing ears, this weird pressure on the back of my head, can feel my heartbeat in my head and the blood flow in my head for example if bent over and go straight feel all the pressure back of head. Depersonalization I feel like im not even here, another thing i have is everything seems to be moving swaying side to side which i dont see other people talk about with there visual snow issues. Can only really notice it if sit still and look, everything is moving slightly constantly. I have all this for years, i got mri scan on my brain in 2016 and was all clear and told its probably anxiety so i just learned to live with it and didnt bother me too much, until this year its really effecting me because im getting older and only came to the conclusion i cant do anything and i have extreme brain fog, i cant remember things i cant plan things i cant understand things, i feel so slow, confused. I've always been a quiet introvert person didn't think of it too much but now i know theres something really wrong with me, the reason im quiet is because my brain isnt working when i listen to everyone else talk its like how does your brain work so well and have all this information, i feel like i have autism aswell or something i have no people skills so awkward, but i literally cant take in information so of course i cant have normal conversation i cant understand things, if i read something i dont know what i just read its like im proper brain dead. Its impossible to live with this I cant function, I have bad posture aswell kyphosis i know theres no definit answer for what causes visual snow but could that be a part of it and anxiety? So i decided to get all this looked at again this year and with a neurologist, first appointment he said im fine and probably just worried and hes sure all will be clear, We did tests he ordered bloods to be done and checked lots of different things, and did MRI scan on my brain which was clear, and second appointment when i came for results where i heard everything was clear, he diagnosed me with visual syndrome, hes good and took the time to look into it i see alot of people saying there neurologists just said they never heard of it and hard to get diagnoses. He never heard of it before until me and said its a rare condition that is coming more to light now, and everything i already know about they dont know exact cause and no cure, he saw that lamictal had some success so I have just started that, i dont even know if its a good idea taking this but I need to try something im desperate, it seems to have very little success and the 20% that success out of the study that was done only had minor changes, and theres side effects, i saw one person say it really helped with there brain fog i know its a longshot im hoping for a miracle, like im literally stupid cant do anything have no skills cant figure out the smallest things, i dont know how long its been this bad im only noticing it this year, noone thinks i am stupid they have no idea, i have a decent job a degree i wasnt stupid in school i have friends i go out sometimes noone has no idea how screwed i am, im going to loose my job because I Literally cant figure anything out and dont know what im doing, maby i have depression aswell? i dont even know how i feel its like i feel nothing at the same time, so hard to get out of bed I just want to sleep, i work from home so im sitting at screen all day, then after just watch netflix im not functioning right now maby all this screentime aswell is after making be brain dead, for example alot of my schedule would be working 2-10pm, so my routine would be like work 2-10pm, eat and bed by 11pm, lay in bed on phone brain dead scrolling until 4 am, sleep until 12:30pm, wake up shower quick breakfast and work, dont even feel like exercising, and feel like advice people give is for people that have a brain that works im like so brain dead and cant understand anything and different its like no advice will work for me im just screwed. I have amazing parents that want to see me get better, its been a terrible year with trauma and heartbreak and a terrible breakup and since then this has got worse and the brain fog worse but i feel like brain fog always been there just havent noticed it as much, have always been bad at talking, always boring its like i have no personality, needs maps on my phone when driving somewhere thats not even far away, like looking back ive always been not functioning right. I dont know what to do, all tests come back clear am i just stuck with this, what kind of life am i going to have is it just oh im seriously unlucky and have to live with this, like i could live with the ringing ears, static, pressure in head, dizziness, but having bad memory and not understanding anything or able to do basic things seriously cognitively bad what am i meant to do this is such a huge disadvantage, im desperate for help, ive no interests no skills no hobbies, boring cant talk to people and have this visual snow condition im screwed. I was convinced I had MS or dementia theres no family history of this but its possible but neurologists said its not that and that is all part of visual snow but i dont know i know brain fog is part of it but surely not this bad. also have freezing hands and feet 24/7 and there literally purple most of the time doctor just says probably bad circulation nothing to worry about surely its not normal and ive had that years aswell like how am i so messed up, do i go see a cardiologist aswell, Im skinny guy scrawny and eat healthy enough i used to go gym but gave up 5 months ago because of all this and just not feeling like doing anything, im so unfit can bearly workout or run or i feel my pulse everywhere, i got bloods done for all that and all clear and some scan on my belly since i feel my pulse there to check for aorta aneurysm or something and all clear, its like my doctor doesn't even believe how bad all this is and how real it is everyone will think its just anxiety. I feel like my speech is effected i cant explain things my mind is just blank like dimentia i cant get sentences out fully clear sometimes im bad at talking and dont have the words, feel like the most screwed up person and i dont know what to do, and for the average person that sees me out they think im a goodlooking guy living life but they have no idea how messed i am, yes my insta looks good i traveled to few countries girls like me just for looks but then when actually comes to talking they will see how akwward i am and brain dead and boring that i cant function and wont be fun and cant hold any sort of conversation theyl want to run, im so bland and basic and useless like just different that everyone and its not being negative its actually just the way it is. I do have random muscle twitches so often in my body all over the places thats why i thought MS aswell neurologist said no just anxiety overthinking but u do have visual snow syndrome, its not anxiety i dont even feel anxious and have all these symptoms, i cant believe i have all this its not fair, in certain positions my hands feel shaky like have a tremor to them, since theres not much answers for visual snow syndrome and still only coming to light how do we know its not as bad as MS this could be an insanely terrible condition it just doesnt seem as serious because tests are clear always and its not very common and no meds for it, maby in 100 years it will be more known as this thing and that it can have really messed up things with it, im questioning everything like stupid things my brain is fried every little thing i am questioning it and spending ages thinking about it, for example why does reddit need my email adress , my automatic response is like verification and security but i still dont understand in my head like why it makes sense, like i cant figure out anything its insane, why the curtains are closed at night(is it because we dont want to see the darkness outside and its more cozy closed at night and we turn lights on in room ) but like stupid things like that that we do without thinking i am overthinking every little thing tryna figure out the why, anyways sorry for the rant, i just dont know what to do and i just think i am screwed, I have no motivation to do anything its like im extremely lazy but i dont think its that obviously everything i have is causing this , theres another example i will be thinking like so the people that arent lazy why are they not do they want to do hard things to get happiness well what if relaxing in bed is happyiness i dont need to do them things, and how life is hard if u work hard and become successfull its hard but do hard things= easy life and more of a stronger person but then the person that doesnt do hard things also hard life because of the results of that, so the saying is like chose your hard, but then im thinking well the person that does nothing and stays comfort and doesnt go gym are they technically not stronger because they chose to suffer with the results of being weak and down where the strong people there not strong enough to feel weak and the pain of being a loser so they work hard not to be like that because they dont WANT to feel like that because its also hard, but the person who isnt doing hard work is going to stay feeling bad so are they not stronger, like my mind thinks of stupid things like this and i know its stupid and ridiculous just trying to give example, so thats where I am out any help would be appreciated is anybody else as messed up with visual snow syndrome, its like i have brain damage but MRI is clear, never taken drugs. i cant focus or apply my self to anything i think due to depersonalisation, like when im driving i dont know where to actually look its like im looking at one spot and feel out of it, but i can still drive, if try to do something just feel like im not there that theres is a big disconnection , i do everything wrong just clumsy and unable to function.like even reading this i just sound crazy u will think im seriously disabled, if u see me you wouldnt think so atall its like im a fraud going around noone knows how messed i am, how i cant figure out anything, is this all just part of visual snow syndrome? Every day is such a struggle with this i dont know what to do its not fair. Cant belived how screwed I am and im only coming to terms this year something is wrong with me. Your brain is everything people dont know how lucky they are to be able to function i feel like if i had a normal brain and could talk and communicate like everyone else and figure things out and have natural conversation with people it would be amazing i could do anything, im like a akward robot and my answer to every conversation is yes or no and i just hate talking because i cant do it and hate small talk, beyond awkward. I need help. I am hoping life will get better again I just dont see how, i need a miracle and trying to stay positive

27F, 5’2, 225 lbs, smoker, currently taking Lamictal and Abilify for bipolar disorder.
Over the course of 2 weeks I was losing my bladder randomly throughout the day, but I was out of state so had to wait to return home. When I got to the doctors they did an abdominal X-ray and found a “moderate to large impaction”.
They told me to take 2 docalax and 6 stool softeners over the course of an hour and drink a lot of water.
I have since did that regimen twice over the course of 1 day, and have taken a suppository today. Nothing but mucus. I don’t have a fever, but I’m a little shaky and nauseous. Is it time for an ER visit?

TLDR: doctors keep ignoring me when I say something is wrong or ask questions and now I have possible kidney damage because of an autoimmune disease that could’ve been caught at least 5 years ago. I’m frustrated that people who are supposed to care about my health are ignoring me and being completely nonchalant about any health issue I have.
About 7 years ago I was diagnosed with bipolar 2. After going through a myriad of meds I take lamictal and bupropion. During this time my kidney gfr went from 99 down to a shaky 60 ( at one point it was 56) and my creatinine has been rising ever since and is now at 1.22. Every time I brought up concern about those numbers, doctors said “ it’s probably just your meds” and “ nothing to be concerned with”.
In December 2022 I broke my 5th metatarsal somewhere a little over the joint on the side. Went to the ER because it hurt a lot, they took an X-ray(they did no weight-barring images.. which I thought was odd) and they said not broken. I rested it like instructed by the ER doctor,but a week went by still hurting. So my pcm had X-rays taken, she said no break. I told her the pain was coming from the bone and she basically dismissed it like I’m crazy. Like there was no way that I could feel pain with that much specificity. Her face and her “orders” confirmed my observation.
I walked on it from December to February. During that time I did what my doctor said. I tried R.I.C.E and when that alone didn’t help, I added ibuprofen like my pcm said to. The intense, deep pain continued so I requested a referral to a podiatrist. Podiatrist took his own X-rays and immediately confirmed that it was a fracture of my 5th metatarsal at the center part of that bone. He put me in the boot and after about 8 weeks, new images were taken and the bone appeared healed. He said any pain would eventually subside so for 3 months I walked on it maintaining the same instructions for my pcm had given that he concurred with. It still hurt to probably a 7 or 8 so back in the boot. MRI was ordered and a cyst has formed as well as a bone edema that almost goes up the whole bone in the middle. Back in the boot, hurts more. I said it hurts and wanted to get more options and ended up with a bone stimulator for a month that didn’t work. So he said “ there’s nothing for me to do here”. I found an ortho who had a fellowship for foot and ankle. He saw the problem and suggested surgery and ordered blood tests. One test came back dsDNA positive and they said to meet with my pcm about that and my kidney function.
Had an appointment where she said the dsDNA was a low positive so not worried and my kidneys aren’t anything. I asked if there were any test to investigate and she shut me down and said well that’s the only test so no need to run additional test..
I’m at a major loss because these doctors aren’t listening to me and there aren’t a lot where I live to pick from. She said autoimmune can affect the healing process so why not be sure so I can plan accordingly?
Am I missing something/overreacting?
Why won’t she run other tests that could rule in or rule out an autoimmune diseases that could be causal in damage to a major organ?
Any suggestions for dealing with this type of stuff?
I never ever bring race into anything but I am a person of color and more often than not I have increasingly found that the litany of studies and statistics about doctors learning that people of color as other than and treating them as such.

Hello, I've been taking lamictal for a while now I started it back up in June and realized my acid reflux got worse, after that I increased my dosages to 150 mg which was okay my doctor recently switched me to 200mg and I started taking them on Wednesday by Saturday I started having this weird feeling in my chest like my heart skipped a beat and my hands got very clammy and I was trying to calm myself down. I've continued to see very anxious and like my blood pressure drops or my heart starts feeling weird and it's freaking me out. The only thing that I can think of that changed is my medication. I don't see how I could've developed a condition overnight considering this has never happened to me before. It only happens when I'm super hungry and haven't eaten and I get shaky or horrible anxiety. Idk what to do! Has anyone felt this way?