Posted by yesac on June 13, 2005, at 10:34:24
In reply to Re: Lithium- too high? » yesac, posted by barbaracat on June 12, 2005, at 22:23:28
Your tremors went away? Oh that makes me so glad, because one of the biggest problems I have is the tremors.... I had been noticing a slight decrease in the shakiness during the past couple of weeks, and it actually had me thinking that maybe the lithium's not working as well anymore. I'm always afraid of that-- that some drug is going to stop working when it had been working okay. It seems like that's happened to me in the past, and then I'd just start to wonder if the drug ever was working in the first place or if it was just a coincidence or weird fluke that I happened to feel better.
> One thing very important. If you absolutely don't need to increase, don't.
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I think you might be right. Well, I haven't had my thyroid checked, and I know I should get the lithium tests done soon. But what I am thinking now is that maybe it was better for me at 600 mgs and added to Seroquel. For some reason, lithium seems to augment the Seroquel and make it work at a much lower dose for me. I thought it was making me too tired, so I decided to just go off it last week. But I think I felt better on both-- like, they worked better together than either one by itself. So I think I'm going to go back to that. I'm trying 750 of lithium and a low dose of S, maybe 50mgs or even 25.
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