TLDR; Basically I’m experiencing a lot of shitty symptoms and I wanted to hear from those of you who have also taken Lamictal and experienced something similar.

I’ve been taking 20mg Celexa for my depression for a while now (since sometime last year, can’t remember exactly when), and recently my psychiatrist added Lamictal for my bpd. He told me to take one (25mg) for the first week, two for the second week, and three for the third week and continue on three. I started with the first week and felt fine. When week two came around...I held those suckers in my hand and for some reason my gut told me not to take them. But I’ve fucked with my medications too much in the past so I decided to trust the guy with the PhD.

Long story short, after taking 2 pills for 5 or 6 days, I feel like death. My headache persists even worse than before; my hips, spine, and neck ache; I have a fever of 101.3 two days in a row now; constantly nauseated; and on top of that, I have rashes. Everywhere. For those of you who don’t know this awesome (rare) side effect of Lamictal, it’s basically where you get rashes all over your body that can develop into blisters and can cause burn-like damage to your skin, make you go blind, and eventually kill you. *yay.*

So I told my doc (pre-rashes &amp; fever) that I was experiencing some shitty symptoms and he told me to stop taking it, and start back up with 1 pill this Tuesday. Now that the rashes have appeared, he can suck it if he thinks I’m taking that shit again.

Of course I also had to start self-diagnosing on google and a lot of my symptoms are similar to meningitis. Great. 

*SO FINALLY* my question: have any Lamictal users experienced this? What happened &amp; what did you do about it?