I happened to stumble upon your blog because I googled the words “lamictal wrongful diagnosis deja vu”, (although I still can’t find the word deja vu in your site). And why was I googling these words .. I’m glad you asked… It’s because for two years now my life has been primarily about finding out how to reverse the effects of wrongfully being on both Lamictal and Trileptal. When I read just the first few words of your Sept. 4th blog my mind lit up like a forest fire as I my eyes eagerly scanned line after line. Kind of. The way I read, similar to both your typing and reteaching yourself to walk after waking up en route to rid yourself of morning breath, is not the way it should be. When I read my eyes, unfortunately, will not follow words on the page. Also this is simulatenously accompanied by a weird self-conscious “clikcing in and out” where my mind plays a type of deja vu-like game with me where it will take what I’m doing now and insert that picture into a memory of the past where I was doing the exact same thing, (like reading a computer screen), probably as a way of pointing out to me how wrong things are.

I felt compelled to write after I read so many things that I, too, experience. All I can offer is my experience to you. Just don’t undermine my authority. Nice Cartman voice by the way. I don’t know how to spell authority in a phonetically proper way.

I was misdiagnosed with bipolar II over two years ago and started experiencing symptoms of epilepsy, (although much heavier on the mental side: deja vu, depersonalization, derealisation, etc than physical), as the result of wrongfully being on both Lamitcal and Trileptal (anti-convulsants), which I took for about 6 months. It’s been two years since I last took these meds, however, I am still experiencing these symptoms. I recently had a SPECT scan performed, and, interestingly, I have massive temporal lobe damage from what the scan has determined to be a physical substance. I say interesting because epilepsy seems to be a temporal lobe disorder and it would be a logical conclusion that these meds go to work in that area; thus the explanation of this all.

I can tell you all sorts of weird stuff that, unfortunately, you might just relate to by personal experience.

Anyway, that’s enough for now. How have things been recently?

Jordan