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LITHIUM users - how to stop agitation????

Posted by bipolarspectrum on July 22, 2005, at 22:58:04

Hi,
I'm on lithium for bipolar depression and it makes me very agitated and irritability but helps with my depression... Can anyone recommend anything?
bps

 

Re: LITHIUM users - how to stop agitation????

Posted by SLS on July 23, 2005, at 8:53:11

In reply to LITHIUM users - how to stop agitation????, posted by bipolarspectrum on July 22, 2005, at 22:58:04

> Hi,
> I'm on lithium for bipolar depression and it makes me very agitated and irritability but helps with my depression... Can anyone recommend anything?
> bps

Hey BPS.

You might be experiencing a mixed state. Lithium might be acting as an antidepressant, but doesn't always treat well the manic component of BP II, mixed-states, or rapid-cycling. This leaves you with a few strategies to treat the remaining irritability and agitation.

1. Mood-stabilizing anticonvulsants

- Depakote
- Trileptal


2. Anti-manic or mood-stabilizing neuroleptic antipsychotics

- Zyprexa
- Seroquel


- Scott

 

Thanx SLS (nm)

Posted by bipolarspectrum on July 24, 2005, at 23:24:21

In reply to Re: LITHIUM users - how to stop agitation????, posted by SLS on July 23, 2005, at 8:53:11

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