I’ve seen a lot of posts on tapering off of lamotrigine and wanted to give a warning. I’ve been stable for 10 plus years after original diagnosis and with help of doc thought it’d be best to taper off lamotrigine as was likely originally misdiagnosed (bad SSRI reaction). I was also taking concerta. I had tapered down from 200 mg lamotrigine to 0 slowly over three months and figured this would be mild since it was a long taper. Had body aches, night sweats, full body and brain zaps, with terrible insomnia with my body in constant flight mode. Previously, I had a great sleep schedule, worked out every morning at 6 am and focused all day in grad school but these side effects curtailed that. I have been going back on it after realizing the withdrawal symptoms did not go away and it has been a long go, with insomnia and brain fog continuing ( I believe the brain fog was somewhat counteracted by concerta before but now the concerta just causes anxiety. 

I just wanted to give others this warning and to listen to your body. If your body is that reliant on it it is not worth going off of it.