Posted by Squiggles on September 26, 2006, at 21:27:45
In reply to Re: Lithium users (SLS and Squiggles), posted by johnnyj on September 26, 2006, at 21:18:40
> Yes, that makes sense to me too. If I am truley unipolar, actually more anxiety and ocd, it could cause apathy. I just "feel" things a little better. Today was a good day for me and it has been many months of feeling down.
Drugs are very hard to adjust to people's
conditions -- it's so common;
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> I was also thinking that since things tanked after about 6 weeks off of my AD (remeron) that the AD had lost any effect by that time and I was getting a "true" lithium effect that could have been masked by the AD. Since it was an adjunct there was nothing for it to adjunct no?Remeron is a very sedating AD; with lithium,
i would not expect it to perk you up at all.
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> I really hope this lasts. It was nice to be able to read a whole paragraph and concentrate better. I was forgetting what concentration felt like. I just lived today and thought "Even if this doesn't last I am thankful for today" We will see.That's good; always report the effects of
your drugs to your dr., so adjustment and
changes can be made.Good luck.
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> thank you for your thoughts
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> johnnyj
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