Posted by Beckett on March 23, 2014, at 15:48:03
In reply to Re: Lithium, lamictal, posted by tom2228 on March 22, 2014, at 22:52:16
>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.
When I was at maximum lithium dose, it felt 'intense' in a full body way. I think I can see how your moods might increase in intensity. Since being off lithium, moods are vertiginous and. rapid again. Does this sound like how you were? Is this what you call borderline? I have wondered re: myself because I don't seem to fit a bipolar pattern except for a deeper fluctuation of depression dotted with hypomania. Oh well, maybe both. I am dx'd bipolar II. I am glad to hear that your moods have smoothed out and that you have found meds to work for you.
In January I was detoxed off Xanax after 15 years. I think it shaped my moodscape adversely, but being withdrawn might be contributing. Both Xanax and lithium were withdrawn at once, so it is difficult to say what's what.
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