Posted by bleauberry on July 27, 2008, at 17:19:28
In reply to Extremely depressed, advices needed!, posted by Maximus on July 27, 2008, at 13:38:53
How were you feeling with the reduced dose of lithium? If it wasn't good, I can see why you went back to the higher dose. If was ok, maybe go back down again?
Lithium is scary to mess with. I've heard many stories of people who were stable, changed the dose, and then it was like a completely different scenario when they tried to get back to where they were. Knowing what I know from pbabble, if I were a pdoc and had a patient stable on lithium, I would tell them that is one thing we cannot take a chance on messing with. If there is weight gain, we'll have to figure out something else to deal with that.
Hopefully things will settle down in the coming days. In the meantime, you should definitely call your doctor and let him know you are in trouble. Don't wait till September.
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