Lamictal starter pack, in a drawer, for over a month

My pdoc prescribed me Lamtictal and gave me the starter pack, but it has just been sitting here for over a month. Right when he gave it to me I started to go through one of of "normal" periods. I was finishing up three weeks of Lexapro withdrawals and I've had a very rough two years as far as medication is concerned-- I had been through Trileptal, Cymbalta, Lithium, Lexapro, and Seroquel-- and I really just wanted to give my body a break.

I am definitely starting to experience moods again (both depressive and hypomanic). I'm am sort of thinking of starting the Lamictal mostly because I am starting doctoral school next month and my goal was to find a medication that would stabilize my moods a bit so I wouldn't fall into a bad depression in scohol.

I know all about the rash-- I know that if you see a little bit of a rash, to just stop the med, call the doc, get it checked out.... but I do a lot of catastrophic thinking and I'm convinced that I will get the rash and it will spread and kill me within 3 minutes. OK. So... has anyone actually gotten the rash? What happened???

Ok then, I'll reframe the question....

How many people here got the rash from Lamictal and died from it??

No rash, no death for me.

I died... that was last life. no wait - that was from something else.

Ah, screw it. I took my first pill a little while ago. We'll see what happens.