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Anyone have probs with Li and thyroid?

Posted by Emily Elizabeth on December 2, 2005, at 0:22:42

Hi gang,

Sorry I have been scarce lately, my depression has been acting up again. I was having success augmenting my antidepressants with Li, but I seem to have slid backwards a bit lately. One explaination is some of the yucky stuff going on in my life, but also I'm a little concerned about thyroid stuff.

My pdoc is good abt checking up on these sort of things, but I just wanted to make sure that I'm in the know. We've checked my TSH and T4(I think that's the one, right?) a few times over the yrs and TSH has always been right around 1. I've been taking Li for like 2 or 3 months and a few weeks ago my TSH was 3.3. She said we'll keep an eye on it and she is going to draw labs next time I see her (10 days).

The more I think abt it, the more I wonder if my increasing depression is due to the Li supressing thyroid functioning. Recently I have had very little appetite, which is not usually part of my depression, although I read that it can be part of hypothyroid. Anyone have any experience with this sort of thing? Any thoughts? Am I going to have to stop the Li?? :(

Sick of depression. Sick of meds. :(

Best,
EE


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