So my day was tough once again. I was paranoid and anxious on this lithium. Fragile and shaky too… I hate this. Cause its quite good against my negatives. Idk what to do with it. Been 3 months on it. Do I need time? is it always so tough with some lifting meds of yours?
for me its a bit alarming though…
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If you enjoy it when keep taking it.
I am not sure about it kerli, that’s the problem. I was paranoid on Zyprexa too, but now I am quite fragile also some days. so I am lost. I wish to keep it cause its quite good for the negatives. But I cant handle so much anxiety either…
I’ve heard that the dose required for lithium to be effective is close to the dose at which it becomes toxic. Are you drinking a lot of water with your lithium? Maybe you could talk to your pdoc about getting on some kind of antianxiety med. Anxiety is so draining.
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I love you @crimby , you are a dear friend
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I am definitely less in the dark of my mind. I was also quite limited in my head because of the illness and the Zyprexa. But I have my anxiety still and the physical sensations who come with it. I have even pain in my heart, its kinda of compressed… I have the weakness in my legs etc etc. Do you believe that the lithium can lower the anxiety? I guess some of the antidepressants work on this too, no? I guess its just hard for the lithium to replace my ideas in my head in order to feel better…
Hello, Anna, I have tried Zyprexa, Seroquel, Risperidol, Paliperidol and Amisulpride respectively. According to my experience, amisulpride is the srongest one for positive symptoms, also is the best for negative symptoms. But Amisulpride has serious side effects, one of them is huge prolactin level which causes osteoporosis, low sexual drive, no period, restlessness, fatigue… I felt much happier on Amisulpride…Maybe you should give Amisulpride a go.
I tried it. It made me agitated and deshinibated. I am not sure the aps will help my negatives and the anxiety to be honest… I tried around 10 antipsychotics and non of them didn’t work on my anxiety. I was just asking that maybe its normal to feel anxious in the start of some lifting med? cause its kinda of a schock to rediscover the reality after being so many time numb, no?
I felt agitated, too. But I just tolerated it . and the agitation subsides with time. Now 4 years has past since I started to take it, and I felt less agitated.
I need the Zyprexa more than solian, green I find… I couldn’t do it without the calming effect of the Zyprexa 
. But was your agitation accompanied with anxiety? Cause I feel better on lithium and I just hope that my agitation and the anxiety from it will fade away like it was your case…
In my case the agitation is accompanied with restlesness, not anxiety. I also think Zyprexa to be a good med, but currently I 'd like to adhere to Amisulpride for a period of time. What makes me unbearable is the fatigue. I have been extremely tired recently. So it is possible for me to consider a switch of med again. My next choice will be going back to zyprexa.
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In my case the Zyprexa pulled me out of the bed, but It worsened so much my negatives that I didn’t live for 10 years on it. It killed my will so I have even accepted that ill be alone as a dog like this and I didn’t complain to the docs. They didn’t search to help me more than this. I have really strange side effects from Zyprexa though. Plus, it never helped my paranoia or my fears at all… I was suffocating from fear when I was talking for example. Imagine… to suffocate… I was very fragile and scared… so my new doc tries to lift me with this lithium. But maybe I need time to see results on the anxiety… I was ill for very long time in fact. I smoked too much weed in the past while I was ill but before the diagnosis… I find solian better on the fatigue than the Zyprexa, but it could be only me.
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Hey, people, were you also anxious in the start of your antidepressant? Cause I find that I really need something to lift me. But now is hard… I am anxious, shaky, pacing at my house… I don’t know if this will settle down. How was it for you?
Have you started antidepressants now
Yes sometimes you feel worse before better
No, I am just on the lithium, but its quite lifting too.
Wow, I think today about my illusion with that guy who was seeing me in the past… what an illusion… I went so deep in this… He didn’t care at all for me. at all 
And I spent thinking about him for years, for god sake… That’s how are we the ‘‘negative’’ schizophenics… he left me used and destroyed. Ok, its not his fault but whatever…
Men are swines
If I were you I’d wait until summer comes
Time for recovery and settlement
The worst, shellys, is that guy really liked my ill friend more than me. While I was in the hell. wow
That’s a sad thing you said men are swines…
You clearly for some one sided hate