So I got lucky... I'm almost 30 and just got diagnosed about three weeks ago. My doctor started me on lamotrigine then, and it doesn't take all the symptoms away all the time, but I feel so much different! I don't feel numbed, but my brain is... quieter inside, and I can make much better decisions because I can think easier. It isn't unachievably hard work to remember a list of three items at the store, I can plan my spending a month ahead instead of week by week, and the tools I learned in cognitive behavior therapy actually work now.

  It sounds good, like a dream come true! And it is, but it's also strange. I've never experienced this before that I can remember, so it feels like my brain broke. I actually called my doctor on day 3 to ask if I'm OK and this is what it's supposed to do, and he said it is. 

On another note: I noticed that when I have a migrane that even Sumatriptan doesn't touch, taking vitamin B complex helps a lot. My doctor said that when I hit depressive episodes I was using up so much vitamin B that I was becoming deficient in it because my diet is good, but it gets used up fast anyways. So I'd feel sad and irritable before a migrane, and assumed it was the symptom, but apparently it was the cause.