Posted by Squiggles on January 14, 2001, at 8:28:45
In reply to Re: Lithium success stories - Are there any?, posted by Todd on June 14, 2000, at 19:56:37
Hi,This is a new post. I have been taking lithium
(900 mg per day) for 20 years. I feel that
this drug has saved my life. I have had only
one adverse side effect - hypothyroidism, for
which I take Synthroid.Unless I am wrong, and there was a misdiagnosis
from an inadvertent valium withdrawal, the
deep despair, and irrepressible mania, which
followed each other like a roller coaster, was
put to a halt within a week of taking lithium.It did take me 3 months to get used to the drug,
as I felt very heavy and urinated frequently.But I have not had one day of depression with
lithium. The major complications came from
a screw up on the thyroid dose.Squiggles
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