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1. Discussion Board
2. Official US website
GSK’s official Lamictal site They’ve heard the bipolar bitch about the taste.
3. Other official websites
GSK’s official Japanese ラミクタール site
4. Lamictal (lamotrigine) Prescribing Information & Information for Patients
We try to get the most recent prescribing information (PI) sheet available, preferably from the drug company’s web site. If there isn’t one (web site or copy of the PI sheet) the next stop is the FDA. PI sheets are designed for doctors and pharmacists. Information for patients is included with PI sheets that conform to the recently-instituted standards for PI sheets.
4.1 Lamictal (lamotrigine) Full US Prescribing Information (PI sheet)
4.2 PI Sheets for Other Forms
These are the additional PI sheets some meds need for other forms, usually because one form will be approved for more, fewer, or completely different conditions than the one ‘regular’ (i.e. more popular) form we use as the basis for these pages.
4.3 International Prescribing Information for Lamictal (lamotrigine): PILs, PMs, SPCs, CMIs, MDSes & EPARs
PI = Prescribing Information PIL = Patient Information Leaflet PM = Product Monograph SPC = Summary of Product Characteristics CMI = Consumer Medicine/Medical Information MDS = Medicine Data Sheet EPAR = European Public Assessment Reports
See the page on how to read our drug guides for detailed translations and explanations of these and other prescribing information-related initialisms & acronyms.
- Finnish lamotrigin PIL
- Irish Lamictal Tablets SPC
- Israeli Lamictal Dispersible Chewable Tablets PIL in Hebrew
- Japanese Lamictal PIL
- Japanese Lamictal RR
- New Zealand Lamictal Chewable MDS
- South African Lamitor Package Insert
- UK Lamictal Tablets SPC
- One of 30 documents for products with lamotrigine as the active ingredient
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Consumer rating & review sites tend to skew negative in a way that isn’t in line with the real world. Or maybe they don’t.1 While more people have negative experiences with meds than big pharma would otherwise have you believe, the drugs are rarely as bad as teh Intergoogles usually make them out to be. While most people get more motivated to do something about an event that pissed them off than an event that made them feel better, and in the Eternal September2 that helps to define the ecology of teh Intertubes, people are more than happy to extrapolate the specific to the general as loudly, passionately, frequently, and often ignorantly as possible, it turns out that consumer review sites are relatively balanced sources of information. At least the ones that don’t specialize in nothing but side effects, and have enough reviews to be statistically significant.3
6. Other sites of interest
- Drugsdb.com Lamictal page - finally, a site by pharmaceutical professionals that’s more than a regurgitation of the PI sheets.
- ChemSpider’s lamotrigine page
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2 The September That Never Ended, AKA the Eternal September:
Definition: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=September%20That%20Never%20Ended
Significance and historical perspective: http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/TheSeptemberThatNeverEnded
First Use: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.folklore.computers/msg/4bd75d223b992e8d
3 Which is why you won't see sites like patientsville.com, rateadrug.com, or rateitall.com. Other sites are included only if there are enough reviews to be statistically significant, which is over 50 in my book. I don't include Consumer Reports' "best buys," because they lump all applications together and add too much weight to cost. Sorry CR, while generic divalproex sodium may be a first-line AED for some forms of bipolar disorder, it isn't for most types of migraines, and it certainly is not a first-line med for fibromyalgia (http://www.consumerreports.org/health/resources/pdf/best-buy-drugs/Anticonvulsants-FINAL.pdf#page=18). But at least you know what the real generic for Depakote is, which is better than 90% of medication-specific sites out there.
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1 While there are plenty of books to help you with hypochondria, for some reason there’s not much in the way of websites. Then again, staying off of the Internet is a large part of curing/managing the disorder.
2 Remember kids, Microsloth operating systems are like TOS Star Trek movies with in that every other one sucks way, way more. With TOS Star Trek movies you don’t want to bother watching the odd-numbered ones. With Microsloth OS you don’t want to buy and install the even-numbered ones. Anyone who remembers ME and Vista knows what I mean.
3 Have I mentioned how open source operating systems for commercial applications is one of the dumbest ideas in the history of dumb ideas?* I don’t even need my big-ass rant any more. Heartbleed has made my case for me. And that’s just the one that got all the media attention. The very nature of an open source operating system makes security as much of an illusion as anonymity on teh Intergoogles. Before you flip out too much: the domain Crazymeds is hosted on uses a version of SSL that is not affected by the Heartbleed bug. That’s one of the many reasons why I pay a lot of money and keep this site on Lunarpages.
* Yes, I know I’m using open source browsers. I also test the site using the now-defunct IE and Safari browsers. Their popularity - and superiority - killed IE and Safari, so that’s why I rely on the open source browsers. It’s like brand vs. generic meds. Sometimes the generic is better than the brand.
