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Lithium side effects
Thanks Judy. I have been taking lithium carbonate 750mg daily for years . This dose is sufficient to keep my moods stable. It's only recently that I noticed very significant loss of my memory.
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Lithium side effects
Dear Pam, Like you, I have also accepted this illness...and I kind of LIKE it. It allows me to have lots of creativities and great ideas, it allows us to be able to look deeper into the true nature...
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Dear Donna, I am new to this forum too,and I find the people here friendly and very informative. Best wishes, Philip
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there is definitely a line between amusing and bothersome.
I'm actually quite happy with my pdoc. He's always up front about the known side effects and we discuss the side effects that I'm having. It's my decision which ones I live with and which ones I don't excet for the life threatning ones and he take...
In AA, we have a saying, Linda...we have to give it away in order to keep it. For me to maintain my sobriety, it helps tremendously to help others.
I do agree, though, isn't one problem enough? Whenever I ask God 'why me', His answer always seems...
Hi,Pam, yes I did know that Requip was also for RLS. Thank you for letting me know, though. I appreciate you looking out for me. At this time, the Requip is not working so well for the RLS or the Parkinsonism. I see my neurologist in a few weeks (...
My wife (also BP) used to be on *many* meds, some were indeed to treat the side effects of other meds. She went into the phosp and was weaned off *all* meds, psych and otherwise and then started on a new regime. This was about 2 years ago, and has...
To Linda: did you know Requip is for RLS also? Maybe it'll work for you, too, with the Parkinsonism. Also, you don't really have to be weaned off of lithium since it's a naturally occuring substance; my doc just told me to stop it. For me, lithium...
When I had the tremors and twitches from lithium, it was so bad that I could not operate a computer at work, and I had to change meds. A shame, as it worked quite well for me.
ive just got the tremors.
1) im not a surgeon
2) it amuses my friends
memory loss sounds like a deal breaker, though.
I lost a lot of weight on the topomax initially and everyone in my Ed support group accused me of restricting on purpose which I wasn't. The neurologist I was seeing, who knew I was a recovering anorexic) told me it was OK for me to lose weight, t...
I'm not very keen on Lithium right now. It does work for me, don't get me wrong. But my drug- induced Parkinsonism from Lithium is driving me crazy! My shaking is so bad that even the typing I'm doing now is excrutiating. I keep double hitting the...
Topamax for me caused extreme anorexia (which I already had anyway). Still amazes me how different meds work for different people.
No wonder docs have such a hard time treating bp's. I know we all get frustrated with meds that don't work and havi...
I have partial seizures on lithium and depending on what other medication I'm taking with it will determine what the sezuire is like. They only happen for short periods of time - ie. minutes but some of them affect my memory. The map in my brain t...
Thanks Judy. I have been taking lithium carbonate 750mg daily for years .
This dose is sufficient to keep my moods stable. It's only recently that I noticed very significant loss of my memory.
I sure agree, Philip, many, many of us are gifted in special and unique ways.
I do love the hypomanias as long as I can keep them in check and not let them get too high.
I absolutely despise the depressions, though. I don't think I can survive a...
hey Philip, I took lith. a while ago but I had a terrible time with names off people and even objects like phone. Even on different meds my memory is terrible short and long term. I am coming off trileptal and the doc was hoping my memory would im...
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