If a patient who has previously been taking lamotrigine stops taking it for between two weeks and a month, do you have to uptitrate it all over again or do you have another way to resume it?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
I'm not aware of good data to answer this question. To be safest, I would probably titrate again at the usual schedule as though starting from scratch. In the epilepsy monitoring unit, we're typically comfortable with restarting at-home doses without retitrating up to 14 days off meds (the lower lim...
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at Albany Med Health System I agree. Two weeks in the EMU would restart. After...
at Buffalo VA Medical Center Although I like lamotrigine as a good antiepilepti...
at University of Minnesota We are always influenced at times by a case (rathe...
I agree. Two weeks in the EMU would restart. After...
Although I like lamotrigine as a good antiepilepti...
We are always influenced at times by a case (rathe...