Thursday, March 31, 2011
When you first start taking lithium, you may experience tiredness, thirst, urinating more frequently, drowsiness, weight gain or mildly shaking hands. As your body adjusts to lithium, these should go away, but if they continue or get worse, talk to your doctor and pharmacist as soon as possible.
Les...
Hi Marcia
This is Merely Me from MyDepressionConnection. Thanks for writing about this topic...I know a lot of our members on the depression site will be interested in this information.
I have a question for you...I have a friend who has a son with Bipolar Disorder and she was telling me that there is some sort of shortage of Lithium medication right now. Is this true? Have you heard about this?
I got parkinsonian systems with Lithium after taking it for at least a year. It got so bad that I was staggering at work. The shitty nurse practioner threw her hands up and sent me to a Neurologist. The Neurologist wrote a report that said my meds were all wrong and that I should be taking Lamictal. I fired the pdoc, now I'm with a really good pdoc who got me off the Lithium and on to Lamictal.
Sleep is a struggle for me. We are trying to tweak this. I wish I could bring myself to smoking pot, as it always puts me to sleep. But it's hard to find a dealer when your yuppie and 45 years old.