LAMICTAL HEALTH ALERT

I wish we could say we were that lucky with Lamictal.My son of 14 years had started taking it for petit mal seizures.The doctor gave him a small dose and gradually increased it.After 2 months of taking it,he woke up on the morning of Oct.4th 2007,with puffy lips.I knew something was not right so I rushed him to emergency and one look at him they knew he needed to be admitted to a hospital with an ICU.In the two days he was in the hospital his skin started to blister then come right off his body.He was in sheer agony they had to give him morphine to help the pain.Then his throat got all swollen and they had to put him on a ventilator,not able to breath on his own.His condition worsened and he was sent to a burn center to be treated like a burn.That night he had a fever of 105.9 and was rushed to pedi ICU where he stayed for 3 weeks.What he suffered is called SJS/TEN because he lost 80% of his skin.We didn't know if he would survive because both the doctors and nurses kept saying that it does't look good.Thank God he's okay know,but blind in one eye frome the reaction.His skin also has lesions that are slowly going away with vitaminE gel twice a day.I hope no one ever has to feel the horror that my husband and I felt that our son was almost taken from us because of some STUPID medicine that is supposed to help him.We will never be the same.
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