Posted by Squiggles on August 13, 2007, at 15:20:37
In reply to Re: Lithium, posted by becksFLA on August 13, 2007, at 15:10:14
> all thyroid and additional blood tests have been fine. I was at 1200 and noticed slight brain fog, huge apetite and the alcohol thing.....one drink would cause a nasty pain in my stomach the next day. I was at 1200, down to 600 now.
I think 900mg is the happy medium-- too high and you get dangerous and nasty side effects (nausea, tremor, foggy head, diziness, unstable walk, gastrointestinal problems, sleepiness, lethargy, etc.). Too low, and you get the effects of your illness, uncovered by a high enough dose (depression, anxiety, skin feels more sensitive, more energy, less sleep, etc.).
About your stomach -- are you taking the caps all at once? I never do that; also the blurb on the bottle says take with food. I rarely drink more than one glass of wine or beer and even that spaced by at least 3 days.
Maybe you can speak to your doc. about a dose adjustment.
Squiggles
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