I just looked up Lamictal on the internet. Seems it's also for Bi-polar. And it's an anti-epileptic. I understand how it could be a pain interceptor or something like that, but jeez, something that treats bi-polar, epilepsy, and the poor guys with the really bad PN????

I mean, I remember when Alan was given Celebrex for his arthritic knee. Next thing we knew he was hospitalized for 11 days, (the first 5 days in isolation) because they thought he had Rocky Mountain Spotted fever and the guys came in the Haz Mat Suits and were afraid to go near him. I was in the ER telling them "please, it's an allergic reaction, he just took celebrex and it's been only two days, it must be the celebrex". And they are wearing this protective gear and looking at him like he's from another planet.

They brought in one specialist who was talking about menigitis and well, I have never seen so much incompetence in all my life. Finally they put him in the isolation ward. He had his own air supply. There was a guy who had to come in and take his wastepaper basket and clean it. The guy ran in and ran out. He was scared to death. Alan looked like the creature from the black lagoon, all swollen and with a rash from head to toe. And the blood work. They screwed up that too. They finally came and took blood and told me "we are sending this up to hematology, we do our own blood tests, this last blood work was nonsense, it indicates he has no calcium in his body, if this were a true reading, he would have no bones". I will never forget that conversation. Oh, this was when he was wearing the Fenanyl patch. Do you think someone ventured a guess as to why he had PN?? Of course not, all they cared about was "why is this guy swollen and does he have Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever".

I went every day. When the 8th day came (afer they finally gave him Benedryl) and his body went down to normal, you should have seen their faces. They had no clue that he had an allergic reaction.

11 days of confusion, and desperation. He is allergic to sulfites, and anything like celebrex and vioxx. Never again. So I'm reading about the Lamictal. Can you imagine what kind of rash that would have given him?

Neurontin made him deathly ill and Lyrica did nothing.

Just wanted to share!

Melody