I'd been feeling achy with slight chills for about a week. My mother was feeling about the same and I had last seen her the weekend before this feeling. (About 2 weeks ago.)

The last several days my back on right side has been hurting and sleeping very uncomfortable when I turn over. I made the decision to resign my job and at the same time fearful to tell my supervisor PLUS not feeling well, so I hadn't taken a shower in a couple of days.

Last night as I was undressing for a shower, I found a rash on my body in the exact places that were sore: under my right armpit is the biggest cluster, then it extends back in smaller clusters to mid-upper back. There are various clusters there.

I called GP (pdoc is hard to get into and GP is much closer) and have an appointment this afternoon. I'm in a panic and have searched the web for the last two hours (probably not a good thing for me since I catastrophize).

A couple of points:

**I began Lamictal 11/29/05 at 25 mg and titrated up to 100 mg where I have been for approximately a month. Between the whole job thing and forgetting to call in my script, etc. I have been off Lamictal for about 5 days. (I've always read that if a rash appears while on Lamictal to go off immediately, but does that happen in reverse? If one goes off Lamictal suddenly can a rash appear?)

**I'm getting really scared of being on all the meds I'm on and don't see my pdoc until 4/14/06. So, I thought I would try to wean off at least one med slowly and chose Wellbutrin. Am prescribed 300mg SR daily taken in two doses. With each dose I've taken 3/4 the amount. This has been for about 1 week.

**The night after I called in to company and resigned, I was doing the "what ifs" and aggitated in general. I was out of Seroquel, my prescribed sleeping med, so took my alloted amount of Ativan (2 mg/day) since that usually makes me sleepy. It didn't so I ended up taking 10. (I know, that was horrible. I felt drunk for about a day...still didn't sleep all that well.)

So, now I'm sitting here waiting to get into GP to see what this rash is all about. I'm praying it's something an anti-biotic can address. And this is further reason for me to want to get off all, if not most of my meds. If my pdoc won't take me off them, I've got to find a tapering plan on my own.

Mainly writing to give my mind to do....searching the web has scared me. Anyone have any kind of situation like this before?

Thanks so much!!