Posted by AMD on January 9, 2004, at 14:24:33
In reply to Re: Lithium, posted by fluffy on January 9, 2004, at 10:25:56
> Hi AMD--
>
> I also wonder what BAL is??
>
> As for your Lithium brainfog--YES IT WILL GO AWAY!! I promise you. It may take a few days,### That is so good to hear! I had been gradually
### decreasing the dose until yesterday, when I ### finally quit. Already my mind is a bit
### clearer, although I now fear I'll be obsessed
### with 'wondering' whether I am in fact
### back to my clear-thinking self. I will
### consider myself back to normal when these
### obsessions dissipate.back. (even if I was cycling again...at least I felt something, and I could write a paragraph!)
### They talk about the 'trade-off' -- for me
### I'd rather be a bit manic than unable to
### experience the highs and lows of life.> Don't you wish that the doctors had to take some of this stuff to understand how annoying it
### I think we need a directory of psychiatrists
### with mental illnesses themselves, organized
### by symptoms and medications used. I'd feel
### so much better talking to, and confident
### about, a doctor I knew had experienced
### the same symptoms I had, and that had taken
### the same medicines she's prescribing for
### those symptoms.### Lithium is the only medicine I've taken that
### really made me feel like I wasn't myself.
### And I hardly got started on it -- just took it
### on-and-off for one or two weeks at a time
### for two months.> (bipolar II, rapid cycling
> Currently on 250mg depakote, 25mg Lamictal,
> 2g omega 3's, Temazepam for sleep)### How is this combination working for you? I
### admit, I hesitate to take a lot of
### (prescription) drugs. I've now taken three
### in my lifetime (Celexa, Lithium, Lamictal)
### and I hope to be off the Lithium soon,
### gradually off the Celexa, and eventually
### off of everything.Adam
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