My Anti-psychotic only helps about 80% of my problems. I thought about getting on Lithium but I am scared of it. I guess it can really affect your kidneys and thyroid and cause your body to swell…but it possibly could help my anti-psychotic work better.
NO. If you miss getting blood levels taken for toxicity of Lithium Carbonate by even 20 minutes, you will become deathly toxic and land in the ICU.
This is not paranoia. This is from experience and researched scientific facts. Try something else. It’s for Mood Disorders approved by FDA, NOT Schizophrenia.
Good Luck. Use at own risk.
It’s for bi polar but I presume those with sz aff take it. Be careful of advice on the internet and you should be talking to your psydoc about these types of things. It’s an early medication and they’ve others since then that probably have better side effect profiles.
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Lamictal is a good med in the same category. Much newer. I’m using it with an AP for just sz, not sza. So far it’s helping with my symptoms.
lamictal ruined my life
lamictal is also dangerous
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Lithium made me more stupid than antipsychotics which already make me stupid enough. I couldn’t focus at all on lithium and had very bad memory.
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It also made me very sleepy, have tremors and tingling.
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If you are manic, it’s supposed to be very effective.
I took it for treatment resistant depression / anhedonia / negative symptoms, and it blew my thyorid gland, so now i have to take hormones the rest of my life.
And it didn’t reduce my symptoms. Just made me numb and stupid.
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Lithium also blew my thyroid.
It’s a toxic drug, be very careful and please talk it over with your doctor.
Because of Lithium, I have to take Synthroid too now. Socks. And it didn’t help me in the slightest either.
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Sounds here like its a bit dangerous.