Posted by tom2228 on March 22, 2014, at 22:52:16
In reply to Re: Lithium, lamictal, posted by Beckett on March 21, 2014, at 21:28:12
> Lamictal XR? I don't know about this.
>Yeah, the steady blood level has made a big difference --, instead have a steady level that I don't notice as much but has chronically made a bigger difference in my symptoms than the equivalent dose in instant release form.
On the IR I was getting peaks with side-effects at night/morning and what felt like an abrupt, crude, and uncomfortable lack of coverage towards the end of the day.
> Lithium vanquished suicidal ideation when I was put on it last year. Within days it seemed.
>I noticed about a year and a half after being on lower doses (350-750mg) that I hadn't felt suicidal for a long while. However got bumped up at the hospital to 1200mg last summer and counterintuitively I had for a couple months the worst of those thoughts I'd maybe ever had. Getting on Lamictal in the fall helped
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