A few yrs. ago I asked my psychiatrist if it might help me to take lamictal along with my antidepressants. He started me out with 25mg twice a day and increased to eventually 200 mg and it's helped. Note that not everyone should take that high of a dose. Some people would probably feel extremely zoned out and that's not good. I have very wild mood swings due to a borderline personality disorder. So the dosage has to be right for individuals and there are other things that need to be taken into consideration like what antidepressants do you take and why you take them, etc. ..if you're even taking them. Sometimes Lamictal might help someone enough not to need anything else. So everybody needs to find the right fit that only a dr. can help you with. The average medical drs. shouldn't be the ones to make those decisions. Only a psychiatrist should be prescribing antidepressants and other meds like it, IMO. But of course there are some lousy psychs out there who overprescribe.

I don't have any serious side effects but I have some body acne which is bothersome but it's not the kind of serious rash people can sometimes get. The best thing is that like any other meds, you have to keep up with med checkups if possible.