Yeah, I'm going to talk to him about it next week. We'll see what he has to say. Hopefully he doesn't try to sell me an extended warranty package. That's what it feels like.

Lamictal dosage adjusting is difficult. I always have a pretty significant emotional see-saw when the dose level changes. Decreasing depakote levels is a joy. Your attentiveness returns, you feel more like yourself, and you lose the weight you put on. A regular dose of benzos sounds like a bad idea. I think they should only be used when needing immediate relief from anxiety. For example, during the onset of a panic attack. Benzos are a controlled substance in the US, for good reason. But doesn't it suck that they don't provide you with some sort of euphoric feeling? I suppose those who have never taken them before might get "high" if they took a higher dose. But it's like, if you taper up, you never get high. But you get to the same point that an addict does. An addict has to take the drug just to take care of the withdrawal symptoms that occur between doses. Doesn't the same thing happen here, except we don't ever experience an initial high, as the dose is low to start with? Then we develop a tolerance to it and need more and more, and eventually, people end up having to take the benzos just to prevent withdrawal symptoms that occur in between doses. I think I experience some sort of withdrawal when I don't get lamictal in the morning and then in the evening. I swear I start feeling fubar if that pill hasn't been taken by 6:00 PM.