I was on it for years and it worked really, really well. When the maximum dose stopped working I had to do the med-merry-go-round and everything I took was awful. After about a year of that I went back on Lamictal and I love it.

The only side effect I have, and it's sneaky, is short term memory loss. I didn't even realize it was happening until a friend said that was why he didn't like it.