Posted by 4mygrls on May 29, 2004, at 16:10:03
to death. i have read all about the side affects and it scares me half to death. I have been on many ad's but this med scares me to death. also, how often do you have to draw blood? do you have to test weekly? Does it mean that i can never go to the gym again because i can't break a sweat? summer just hit and i love to do things outside. i don't know what i'm going to do.
i started on it on thursday evening. i spent the day yesterday pampering myself. i got a pedicure and went to tan. i got pretty burned on my belly and chest. today i took my dose in the morning and we went to eat a taco bell. we then went to walmart. everything was great till all of a sudden bam, it hit. my stomach was cramping. i felt so weak and tired. i could barely walk. my vision was blurry. it was kinda like being way to drunk. by the time we got up to the register, i asked my daughter to get me some water and i had to sit down. when we walked out, my husband and daughter were walking in front of me and i felt like i was going to fall. i felt like i wasn't
there. the fealing you get when you're just about asleep. i can hear everyone but the world seem to stop. if i hadn't managed to call for my husband, i would've fell. i got worse then we got home and i laid down. i asked him to help me get undressed so i could get in bed and when he saw my chest he gasped. the burn got alot worse. we were thinking maybe the sunburn could be part of what was going on in combination of the lithium? i'm so depressed at the thought of having to worry about so much with the side affects and what to and not to do when taking it. it makes me mad that none of the other mood stabilizers worked with me.
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