Lamictal worked well for me. I suffer mostly from depression and had hypomania as a result of medications and Lamictal evened things out most of the time.

I still had depression once in a while but my overall thinking was not as my thinking when I'm depressed. I was able to do a lot while I was on it.

After about 3 years on it I started experiencing severe stomach area pains. The pain would come in waves lasting about 12 hours and it came up every few weeks.

After a year of that, weight loss of almost 20% of my body weight, and increase in severity of pain, I decided it needed to be checked out.

After lots of tests it was found that Lamictal was damaging my liver. They considered it an allergic reaction. I had to stop it within 3 weeks from a 300mg dose.

I became really dizzy all the time but somehow I managed.

I became really depressed a few months later and have been that way since then (2 years). But the good news is that I'm finally starting to weight again after losing so much and my liver tests are almost normal.

If you're on Lamictal, ask your doctor to do a liver function test once a year, it's a blood test. Liver damage is a known side effect of Lamictal.