Posted by SLS on February 29, 2012, at 14:25:27
In reply to Scary lithium questions PLS answer, posted by Roslynn on February 29, 2012, at 12:58:26
> Hi everyone, my lithium dose was adjusted downward
Why?
Depression or mania?
What is your current blood level?
If someone is to relapse, it can take up to 4 months after drug discontinuation for this to happen. It is possible that you wouldn't know how a dosage reduction would affect you for several weeks. It has nothing to do with lithium still being in your body. The lithium leaves the body very quickly.
There has been some debate about this, but there might be a danger of lithium not working again if you need to restart it after a period of discontinuation. However, I don't know how often this occurs. We do see this happen fairly often with the SSRIs, so this is not an untenable theory. I have a friend to whom this happened with lithium.
http://www.dr-bob.org/tips/split/Starting-and-stopping-lith.html
You are not discontinuing lithium entirely at this point, so I have a feeling that even if you did begin to deteriorate, you would recover very quickly once you increased the dosage again.
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