Posted by SLS on April 8, 2023, at 12:01:34
In reply to Anti-inflammatories and lithium » SLS, posted by undopaminergic on April 8, 2023, at 8:45:25
> > A course of Prednisone did very little to help. Anti-inflammatories work better for me.
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> Prednisone *is* an anti-inflammatory, a corticosteroid -- an NSAID without the "N", so to speak.
Yeah. I realized my mistake after I posted it. I was sure that you wouldn't allow such an error to go unnoticed. I have come to expect that of you. This is a good thing. In fact, I am counting on it!
- Scott
Is stronger than the endogenous cortisol.
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> > What I learned with all of this is that NSAIDs increase lithium blood levels. I can't believe that I had never encountered this information during the last 40 years.
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> I've been aware of it for some time, but for most of the time I've been familiar with lithium, I didn't know about it at all. I had read the prescribing information for lithium and it wasn't mentioned, or at least not as prominently as warranted given the prevalence of NSAID use.
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