Posted by Dyane Harwood on November 19, 2013, at 10:29:55
In reply to Re: How much lithium do you take w/Parnate?, posted by stargazer2 on November 18, 2013, at 16:05:03
Hi stargazer2 and thank you so much for replying to my post. Doctors do *not* know everything, especially about an illness as baffling as bipolar. All I know is that my taking 600 mg lithium/day seems to be working well in tandem with the Parnate. I have absolutely no signs of hypomania or mania. I did have heightened energy the first week, but then fatigue (one of Parnate's notorious side effects) set in big-time, and in a way I feel it has kept any hypomania from settling in. I had a blood level done a couple weeks ago and my Li was .5 - low, I know, but technically within the therapeutic range according to Wikipedia and my pdoc. I hope with all my heart that you and I will beat this illness...you never know, but bipolar scares the %&^*&&* out of me - always has, always will.
poster:Dyane Harwood
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