Oh, hah. I feel kinda stupid now. I had an awful visual of your skin melting off! I sat there thinking, "And here I complained about a mood swing." lol

Anyway, I'm underweight as it is, so I doubt they'll ever test me out on anything that may cause my losing weight (around 100lbs and will be 30 in a couple of weeks). That sure stinks, though. Lamictal seems to be different so far, I lose my appetite then gain it back with force. So I'm either starving or not hungry at all. I also had an aura increase, where you kind of hang there without having a seizure (which at that point I'd rather just have one and get it over with than hang for 3 hours).

Have you asked them if you could try something else?

I felt like that on lamictal. I get myoclonic jerks and i went a year feeling like I really really needed to have one and just couldn't. It made my absense seizures stop but by making me permanently absent really. I was a zombie.

I think that the medicine will be fine in the end. I just think it is funny. If a doctor was prescribing medicine for anything else those side effects would be unnacceptable but in the world of AEDs just losing your hair and all extra weight means "tolerated well".

LOL.