Posted by BarbaraCat on March 4, 2002, at 13:41:25
In reply to Re: Lithium, posted by Denise528 on March 4, 2002, at 6:06:45
Six weeks for each new trial seems excruciating. I hope he has you on klonopin in the meantime. It's helped alot of us here with smoothing things out. I don't know what country you're in, but I'm in the US and the managed health care system sucks. It used to be that a doctor would follow up with you much more frequently than 6 weeks and adjust meds as needed. Now, it's 'here try this and call me in 6 weeks'. Have you thought of upping the lithium to 300 mg? That seemed to do the trick for me. Again, not especially for a bipolar response, but enough to supercharge the AD. Good luck to you. - Barbara
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> I'm taking 200mg daily, I'm not sure whether I'm biopolar II or not as I I don't what the symptoms are. My Psyciatrist seems to thing I have mood changes, although they are not dramatic and in the past I have felt slightly euphoric on ADs, I guess I'm still chasing that feeling. I think the main reason for putting me on the Lithium is to augment the AD and kick start it into working as it doestn't seem to be this time round.
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> What concerns me is that the Doctor is yet again telling me to give it another 6 weeks and then I'll go and see him again and he'll just increase it for another six weeks, I hate to sound impatient but at this rate I'll spend the rest of my life trying to find the right drug.
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> Denise
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