Lamotrigine?

Anyone had any experience with this mood stabilizer? My doctor has suggested it to me and to be honest I feel a bit pressured into taking it :/ I'm so paranoid when it comes to medication. I'm not sure why this is but I always believe i'm going to get every side effect going and after taking something I almost convince myself I am experiencing them and I end up in a panic which sometimes leads to a full on attack. I think I just need to man up a bit! lol. I was wondering if anyone had experience with this particular med and wondered how they found it. Any feedback would be useful

Hello Ophelia:
I spend a lot of years trying different pills, and by accident i found Lamotrigine. I was in a bad period and my psychiatrist wasn´t avaiable so i went to another just to get me something to sleep and relax and we start to talk about it and i decided to take. She gave me something to sleep, but start to speak to me about lamotrigine. by the way she looks a little crazy wich for me it´s perfect because i don´t like doctors with an image of perfection. anyway...Lamotrigine is linked with humor disorders and as side effects like other meds. For me it´s working, but i don´t know why. It doesn´t end my disorder and make everything perfect but i don´t feel that awfull mood swings that i had in the past, so it´s helping me a lot.
First of all what can be good for me can be bad for you, or leave you unconfortable. I have done Lithium, Depakine, Zyprexa,.... All of them gave me secundary effects that i really wasn´t capable to cope with.
Lamotrigine also give me secondary effects. The first is that my mind it´s not so fast as it was and the other one is that i´m becoming less social, i speak much less with other persons and i´m not so interested in being with other persons, wich is dangerous because isolation.
I take 25 mgs in the morning and 25 mgs in the afternoon, and sometimes take another thing just to sleep if i needed too, like bromalex.
I increase my weight too, but i´m skinny and it wasn´t a problem. I gain like 7 or 8 pounds.
Usually people take over 100 mgs, but i´m very confortable with 50 mgs per day. It´s very important that you know that there isn´t any study that shows positive impact on bpd with lamotrigine, only with bipolar disorder, but is worth trying, but in the end the decision should be made between you, your therapist and psychiatrist.

by the way today i didn´t go to work in contrast with the racionality of this post, my emotions close me in my bedroom wich is not very pleasant.
I have to return to therapy and probably take some anti depressant too.

i am a fan and have been on it for years....from 100mg to 400mg, now to when i'm feeling *^#}]]#%}{. here's a great reference:
http://www.crazymeds.us/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Meds/Lamictal

Wineax thanks for the link. It's that bloody rash I'm most paranoid about! I know it's highly unlikey but still... :/

TioEntropia, thanks for your response. Glad you've found something that's working for you I know it's used most to stabilize bipolar symptoms, my doctor thinks it might be good for me because of my extreme highs and lows. If I can get over my anxiety about the side effects I think it might help. I guess it's just about weighing up the pros and cons or taking it and not taking it really.