Posted by barbaracat on June 23, 2005, at 22:04:11
In reply to Re: Barbcat, I've read past posts when you've drop, posted by ravenstorm on June 23, 2005, at 21:42:15
Thanks, Ravenstorm. I appreciate your concern and alarm. Yes, I know what you mean entirely, I gladly crawled back in the past. This is just going to be a time limited test that will stop immediately if I start getting weird. Please see my post to Yesac for the reasons I'm trying this.
One thing that will be different this time is that I won't be going off all at once like I did every time before. It's going to go very slowly and with as much common sense as I can keep together. My husband, bless his heart, won't let me get too far out.
But in a nutshell, I need to know how bipolar I really am, or how much of it was my severe hormonal imbalance that's been corrected. Maybe I need less lithium now that my hormones are normalized. We'll see. Don't worry, I'm not into needless suffering, more like mad chemistry. - Barbara
> Barbcat--
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> Noone but you can decide if you are going to continue to take a med that, according to past posts by you, is a god send.
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> As an impartial observer, and someone who used to visit this site more often, I have to say that I have read of at least two other occassions where you decided to discontinue your lithium with disasterous results. I particularly remember you describing a nasty mixed state you descended into for quite a while upon stopping the drug. You were so grateful for it once you finally went back on. Why do you want to put yourself through that again.
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> Hope you don't find this intrusive. I am going solely on what you have previously posted about your experiences off lithium and how horrible they have been. Hang in there and love to you no matter what you decide to do.
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