Ok, I feel more alive already but I am not sure my anxiety and impatience which I have now are normal. Now I cut seeing even my mom after an hour and she is worried about my lithium… Its a pressure to me cause I was desperate just on Zyprexa and Depakote. Its been a month and a week that I am on the lithium but I have anxiety now which is quite bad. Dont tell me its not the lithium, it can happen cause lithium increases serotonine and we schizophrenics, have problems when it comes to serotonine…
My last hope is that ill get used to this med and ill have some benefits from it. Were you impatient too in the beginning of some of your meds, or anxious?
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Sup anna1…!!! Give it a 3 months and tally ur symptoms…
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You are always positive far, but my mom doesn’t like my current behavior. I am too anxious to even listen her sometimes and she is worried. I dont know if ill calm down after 3 months, should i wait really?
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Have patience anna… i think u will improve …!!! Take care…!!!
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Ask your doctor if lithium could be increasing your anxiety.
I don’t know if it might, or might not, but your doctor, not your mom, is really the one to say.
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I never ask my mother about my treatment, its just that I see mostly her and now, I cant stand long conversations and she is mad to me because of this…
Were you able to have long conversations before the lithium? Are you sure you’re more anxious in general, or just had a bad day?
I was staying at my moms house longer before the lithium, yes. Now, I avoid her… I was anxious before the lithium but now I express my anxiety which I am not sure if its better… My mom sees the difference and she doesn’t like it. Me, I am desperate cause I was ultra depressed and stuck in one place with my meds before so I would like to give a chance to the lithium. It increases the serotnonine, maybe I need time?
sorry guys to be such a mess but I still look for a trt. My mom said me again today that she doesn’t believe that ill recover after 15 years of isolation, wow. It puts me just anger for the moment, idk why she is like this wow. Maybe she saw too much with me.
I took one akinetone now cause I was shaky etc etc and I think its a bit better now.
I did a quick search and it looks like lithium probably decreases anxiety, not increases it, but some people do not respond to it.
"For example, two people with completely different underlying causes of anxiety may benefit equally in terms of subjective anxiety reduction after taking lithium, yet one individual may have benefitted primarily from the upregulation of serotonin, whereas the other may have reaped most benefit from a reduction in norepinephrine – despite the similar outcomes. A third individual may benefit most from decreased neuroinflammation and/or epigenetic modification. On the other hand, a fourth person may derive no benefit from lithium because it failed to significantly target neurobiological causes implicated in their specific anxiety disorder. "
it’s a mood stabilizer and takes a good month or so before it really starts working. Just what my Pdoc told me last appointment as he’s probably going to put me on lithium soon. I have bad anxiety already but I take klonopin for that.
'‘Some medications for depression also increase the brain chemical serotonin. Taking lithium along with these medications for depression might increase serotonin too much and cause serious side effects including heart problems, shivering, and anxiety. Do not take lithium if you are taking medications for depression.’'
ive read this, @twinklestars. I am impatient now but more alive if you see. Maybe I need time, idk. I am not lying, I am really a bit more anxious and impatient. Lithium increases serotonine, its risky for sz… Maybe I need more than a month, idk… idk what ill do if lithium doesn’t work. The other aps dont help me either…
I’m not saying it’s not possible for you to have anxiety. You should report that to your doctor. But that paragraph says not to take it with antidepressants, are you doing that?
no, I dont have an antidepressant. you know, everybody can react strangely. I just say that its possible cause lithium increases serotonine and you know that some sz are too sensible when it comes up to serotonine. Ill pray that it will settle down. maybe I should give it more than a month. I guess some of the meds were tough in their beginning too no?
Yes, sometimes people can have odd reactions to various meds.
You should report this to the doctor and see if they say to keep taking it.
Ok, ill wait a bit and if it continues ill talk to him. I have troubles seeing him but I can talk to him on the phone. But I hope that its just my hypochondria cause I wasn’t living on the Zyprexa and the Depakote.
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Are you drinking lots of water? Lithium is a mineral, and you’re supposed to drink a lot of water with it. I’ve heard that the dose required to be effective is very close to the dose at which it becomes toxic. Treat lithium with respect.
I take 2l per day, crimby. Dont make me guilty in something please… Its the chemistry, that’s all.
Sorry. I didn’t mean to do that.
Ok, dont worry. Its just that I start to run out of options and my mother keeps saying that ill never recover after my years of isolation. She says that I dream when I want something in my life. she doesn’t believe in me anymore and believe me, she is quite authoritarian on this… Never saw another mother like this 