After a lot of research, I finally 'believe' my bp diagnosis. I am most definitely an ultra rapid cycler - sometimes moods change multiple times a day ranging from suicidal depression to elation, or hypomania to extreme agitation...I think I used to have longer periods of depression and either hypomania or mania when I was younger and that things have sped up exponentially (but I honestly can't be sure I'm remembering correctly...)

Anyway, for the first time in a long time I am desperate enough to escape this rollercoaster (I'm about to fail this quarter, which, if you knew me, is crazy and shocking). My doctors are pushing lamictal really hard - and honestly it sounds like a great drug, EXCEPT the skin rash thing, which frankly terrifies me to the point I can't bring myself to pop a pill (I have a prescription). I have terrible health anxiety, so it's just not going to happen...

The problem is I don't see any real alternatives (esp. meds used more for treating the depressive symptoms, since I don't think I have full-blown mania).

Anybody out there with rapid cycling whose had success with something?