Anyone Tried Lamictal? HELP

I've been taking a massive dose of lamotrigine for years (600mg).. this is what I've experienced, having dropped off it from time to time..

Early side effects are headaches which go away, and sometimes excessive yawning. It will stabilize your brain and regulate some of the circuits, but I don't really think it's a strong anti-anxiety drug. It's a good drug for pulling the bottoms (depression) up to more normal levels, but it doesn't bring manic highs down.

It's probably a neuroprotective agent, and that's a good thing for PTSD, because I think glutamate may be part of it. I'm a cPTSD / chronic trauma survivor.. I think it evens you out quite effectively but there is a fine line between evened out and apathetic for me. I don't really like taking it but at this point I really shouldn't stop.

The weirdest effect it has on me, which is awesome because I am a musician and do some recording on the side is a perfect sense of pitch. I can tell when anyone singing is a tenth of a note off, when someone is subtly using autotune; I can tune a guitar in 10 seconds.. very very weird.. maybe it is stabilizing inner ear crap.

Watch out for double dosing. I've done that and gotten so dizzy I wished I was dead.. lasted about 7 hours. That might just be the dosage (that'd be like 900mg on accident).

As Redsoft said, stick with it. It's really got no downside that I can tell, and it will even things out. If the initial side effects don't ease up in about 2 weeks, call the doc.