So I've been feeling really bad today with my stomach (diarrhea and nausea) and just general lethargy. H says he can hardly talk to me; I jump topic to topic.

I looked at my meds. OMG. I am prescribed to take Lamictal (well, the generic, lamotrigine) 200 mg 2 times a day. Maybe on Sunday I took it twice? Not sure, I refilled the meds that day. I looked at the meds for this week. I am supposed to take 1 lamotrigine 200 mg in the morning, one at bedtime. Since Monday morning (I think), I have only been taking lamotrigine at night if the rest of the week's worth of my pill box is to be believed. I have it there at the night dose but not the morning for all the rest of the week. I think I have only been taking it at night Monday, Tuesday, and then I did not take it this morning, but it's closer to the night dose, so I'm just going to wait that out.

So what happens when you start to miss Lamictal doses this way? Is it stomach issues, jumping topic to topic, racing thoughts, talking a million miles an hour? I have not skipped it entirely (have taken the night doses).
Do I need to bother pdoc or just put the missing morning doses in the pillbox for the rest of the week (that is what I'm leaning toward)?

It is super frustrating. If I have to get the lamotrigine from mail order, it is an oval pink/peach type pill. If I get it from my regular pharmacy, it is usually a blue pentagon shape pill, or sometimes a giant white circle tablet. OMG, can't they make it look the same? I think this is where I got messed up refilling. I had to switch from one version of the pill to the other, back to the giant circles, and I was thinking they were melatonin (which pdoc has me on, it is a largish white tablet, not as big as the lamotrigine though) and didn't put them in the morning doses because my brain thought they were melatonin and only for bedtime.

Ugh! Does this mean I'm going to be messed up a few days now until I get taking my meds as prescribed?

I can't believe I thought this med didn't do a thing for me. Obviously, it must have helped with the racing thoughts/talking a million miles an hour, I guess sort of manicky symptoms.

Just what does a mood stabilizer do exactly anyway?