A Rash on Lamictal

Last night I was thinking that I'd post in the morning that I had no rash so far, but lo and behold this morning, before I even look, I'm idly running my hands over the area just below my neck, and above my breasts, when I feel bumps.

All of a sudden, I think, "Rash!!" and I call my husband into the bathroom to look; he says maybe it's a rash, and that it looks sandpapery. That relieves me a bit, because the sandpapery rash is supposed to be the "innocent" of the two rashes you can get on Lamictal. I went and got my glasses on and then I had a look; to me it's got some reddishness scattered around, but I don't THINK it looks like a sunburn; I don't know that it looks like sandpaper, either, but this rash is very . . . inconsistent and spread out and like it's not fully formed yet, like it's just starting to appear.

So I'm going to go to therapy this morning, and then get some Benadryl and take it, since it's far too splotchy to look like a sunburn to me, and it DOES have a few sandpapery bumps. Going to watch it closely, to see if it starts looking like the dangerous sunburn-looking one, but will tentatively "diagnose" it as the other one, for now, since my psychiatrist instructed me to self-diagnose if I could and told me how to tell one from the other. If I can't tell or it definitely looks like the sunburny one, I'm to contact her immediately on her phone.

I'm a little nervous about this. Here I'd gone twice as long as last time without a rash, and was starting to think I was out of danger. I think I remember from the first time it was prescribed that I was told the first 6 weeks were the most likely to get the rash; I believe I'm in the sixth week.

If it develops welts tomorrow I'll know that I've diagnosed it wrong because she told me the bad rash gets welts on the second day.

I'm also feeling a little itchy all over, so maybe that Benadryl will be a good thing. Oh, this rash is in the same exact area it was in the last time. I don't know if that means anything. I had also just bumped the Lamictal up to 200 mg yesterday (It's supposed to eventually be 300mg in a couple weeks.)

Here's to playing with fire! (said sarcastically.)

Edit: It's a few minutes later and the splotchiness is gone, it may have just been from me rubbing at it. I see alot more tiny pink dots that feel lightly textured, so I'm more confident in calling this one the more benign rash; it's definitely NOT looking like a sunburn.