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    It is up to you to decide. You must know that many take lithium and it is safe.

    They tell us that Lithium is not a good choice. They tell us we will get sick, we will have to modify our diets, our lives and that it will anyhow not be successful. They colour horror stories about lithium in our minds and make sure we turn to the synthetic world.

    Why are they against something so occurring everywhere in nature?

    Element Number 3

    Lithium is a salt, a fundamental element of our planet found all over the world. It is natural like spring water and getting sick from it is for the same reason as sunbathing too long and getting sunburned.
    If you respect lithium as an element of nature then you will understand how to live with it and when you understand that, if it works for you, it is a wonderful « medication »

    The gift

    We can thank Dr. Cade in Australia for the discovery (http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cade...ck-joseph-9657 and many deaths mishaps while dosing patients in the 50's to the discovery that Lithium works on moods as a stabilizor. The ancients took long thermal baths, we have a thermal bath in the form of a capsule. Once our blood levels reached and stable, we've reached a land that doctors forgot to mention... an ocean of peace.

    Being sick versus being disciplined

    Yes you must be very disciplined when taking lithium, but thats just an advantage anyhow when you have a mental illness. You learn as you go along, but the rules are the same for everybody with lithium. Its just the dosages and the symptoms that might differ.
    If you take too much, you will get very sick ; if you stay in the sun too long, you will burn.
    Simple no ?

    Symptoms

    You can this information anywhere. Best ask a doctor or pharmacist. Or better, a manic-depressive. Some symptoms appear immediately, some after a few years but it shouldn’t stop you from taking it. It is always up to you to decide and measure. It is your life, your head, your moods and your symptoms. Talk to other people who have been on it and how to manage things like thirst or nausea and so on... Communicate your ill feelings.
    Remember that it is not because you feel ill that you will have to stop it. Some doctors might want you to stop it because you have symptoms. And they will insist!
    Specialists run their fingers down your chart, find the Lithium and blame it.
    Have regular blood checks at the beginning, after that you just learn the terrain.
    Learn and teach.

    Lithium or Valproic Acid (Depakote, Epival)?

    For those for whom Lithium does not work or makes them too ill, Valproic Acid is proposed. It is a synthetic mood stabilisor.
    I want to talk about the choice between Lithium and Valproic Acid (and others) which is often not even proposed because some doctors think Lithium obsolete. It is not.
    The “black box warning” of Lithium listed in the PDR Drugbook is that the lithium serum levels must be checked to prevent toxicity (thus damage to the kidneys)
    Doctors push Valproic acid more for first time patient even though the same “Black box warning”http://www.drugs.com/pro/valproic-ac...-solution.html for this medication is far more expansive: it has caused hepatic failure, life-threatening pancreatitis, and can cause liver problems.



    Please anyone on who is or has been on Lithium leave your footsteps.... communication is the key to health.
    I have been on it over 10 years, left doctors to keep Lithium, have gotten ill, had symptoms from the very start and still have.



    For more information http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/arti...ticleID=483678

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    Hello Lyxia. Good to see you post again. I enjoyed your comments. Take Care. paul m
    "Alone we can do so little;
    Together we can do so much"
    Helen Keller

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      I was actually feeling well when I wrote but right now I feel that my brain has been set afire and the ashes are drifting in the polar wind. Its like dropping 20 floors with an elevator. The dumb thing is that by tonight I will be singing and un wanting to sleep.

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        #4
        Hello Lyxia. Weird how that happens sometimes. I hope that you feel better soon. Take Care. paul m
        "Alone we can do so little;
        Together we can do so much"
        Helen Keller

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