Jess,

I want to say to you that Lamictal can be used to control the tonic-clonic
and absence seizures, plus several other seizures as well. But for
yourself, there is no single person, not I, not anyone, and not even
yourself, who is going to be able to say that lamictal, will definitely
work for you. Even if you were to receive feedback replies from the over
50 million people with epilepsy worldwide, the only way that you are going
to find out the utmost truthful answer is by having your doctor to place
you on the lamictal itself. You will then need to go through the process
pertaining to what's called 'pharmacokinetics' in order to search for your
individual therapeutic range. Your therapeutic range may be high or it
might be low. It can also be wide or even narrow. The keyword on this is
*your*. This process may be short and quick, with the doctor's goal of you
having no seizures AND no side effects. But it’s also possible that you may
have severe/intolerable side effects. Now if it appears that there's no
noticeable change at all just yet, then you're going to need to increase
the dosage amount as many times necessary, which might be a long dragged
out process, until you become seizure-free. If you happen to come to a
certain point when it appears that the seizures have been reduced rather
well, but not fully, and that some intolerable side effects are starting
to creep in, then your doctor should either lower the dosage amount and
add-on another antiepileptic medication; or completely wean you off of the
lamictal and repeat the same pharmacokinetics process on a different
antiepileptic medication.

Something you need to remember is that if you do find out that lamictal
(or whatever medication) is going to be right for you, it may not be right
for you forever. Over time, our bodies change, this means that it’s
possible that some changes may need to be done on the medication. For
example, when we become older adults the medication in our bloodstream is
eliminated somewhat slower. So the amount of medication that is consumed
by mouth may need to be somewhat lowered, if necessary.

Hope this helps you.

Bruce