Lamictal was the first drug I was put on after my bipolar diagnosis in March 2012. I've found it more helpful for depression than mania; in fact, with only two notable (and brief) exceptions I haven't had a depressive episode in a year-and-a-half.

At first when I was titrating up, I got headaches for a day or so and was pretty sleepy, but all that went away fairly quickly as the dosage increased. The only problem I've noticed with Lamictal is that it does nothing for my mania, at least not that I know of. But then, I'm not about to experiment with any of my meds to find out whether or not an individual drug works.....