Thank you, WC. I hope you tolerate Lamictal much better this time around too, and it sounds like your pdoc is steering you in the right direction as far as still being cautious, while keeping in mind all the potential benefits. So sorry to hear you had a bad reaction, and that your aunt did to a different medicine as well. Why do so many meds that are helpful carry so many risks? It's no fair!!

I guess since I have not had a problem with it after so many years of being on it, things should be fine.... although there's always that chance on my mind. When the imagination gets going, fears feel so real, like I'm picturing my death! My mom has bad medical anxiety and tends to jump to worse-case-scenario (I guess that's who I inherited anxiety from), so I think I should stick to trusting my doctors.