When I first went on it, I went manic for maybe the first week, in which time I wrote a novel. Whether the novel is any good or not, doesn't matter... the fact is I was completely manic.

Of course, I still think it was a reasonably good novel.

Since my body got used to it, it seems to have stabilised me. And when I got a rash, it turned out to be shingles, not the med.