Posted by Mitch on January 8, 2002, at 23:43:19
In reply to Re: S.S.R.I. tolerance and other stuff. » Mitch, posted by bob on January 8, 2002, at 14:30:35
> How does Lithium work for you? Are you on it now?
Hi Bob,I was on Lithium for nearly twenty years. I am not on it now (not since 1998). It has worked reasonably well as monotherapy. I probably would be dead now if it had not been around. The biggest trouble I had with it was severely aggravated diarrhea (irritable bowel). That resulted in bad non-compliance-I didn't want to take something which made me dart out of classrooms unexpectedly, etc. It also didn't solve the fatigue and hypersomnia associated with my seasonal major depressions and my comorbid ADHD. Neurontin was as good as lithium as an antidepressant for me and didn't upset my stomach, it helps with my ADHD (which Lithium didn't do much for). The trouble is that Neurontin isn't as good an antimanic agent as Li is. What I need now to complete the "puzzle" is an antimanic agent (for about half the year) that I can tolerate (and Depakote worsens my ADHD). So that is the newest problem to solve.
Mitch
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