Lithium question - for a begginer - Bipolar Disorder Message Board

JustDave4now · 06-05-2005, 06:12 PM

Hopefully we have some Lithium people here, I wonder if you have the same experience I have had, on the mediation. I have just started on the low dose, tomorrow I double the dose, go 5 days and double again. I also Take wellbutrin for my depression.

But I have notice a change already, which I though was a bit odd so soon (4 days). I have found my only two symptoms I have come accross, is I am really thirsty and second I am extremely calm and content.

I know that sounds wierd, but I am as about as anti anxiety as you can get. Is there some thing like the Lithium calm effect, or is tempory. OR is this what to expect, its rather pleasant. I am not up or down, but calm and well content.

Maybe as the meds go up, Brain fog will take over like the depakote, I hope not, I like being content. My life has always been a blaze of nerves and worries, up and downs, happies and saddies. Calm feels good.

Did you feel calm and content when you first tried your lithium? does it go away? I wasn't expecting calm, I was expecting, well that drugged feeling you get with depakote.

Zbaby · 06-05-2005, 08:13 PM

I never had much luck with Lithium, but it sounds like it's working out for you so far.

Thirst is pretty common with meds, and it's lovely when the thirst issue is multiplied the more meds you take. Lithium does require more attention to your body's need for water. Just make sure to have a supply on you at all times -- in the car, at the office, if you go to the park or out in the sun for more than 1/2 hour, etc.

Toby706 · 06-05-2005, 08:34 PM

I have been taking Lithium for several years and it is far better than the Depakote I was started on. The Lithium controls my mood very well, but I do drink alot of water and have developed a slight case of hypothyroidism in the last 2 years.