Lithium

[Walilamdzii]

Currently just feeling perpetually tired. What's everyone's experience with this?

 

[jonward55]

Currently just feeling perpetually tired. What's everyone's experience with this?

As in batteries? Never heard of it even being me before.

 

[Walilamdzii]

As in batteries? Never heard of it even being me before.

No, the medication.

 

[jonward55]

No, the medication.

Oops sorry

 

[Eternal Sleep!]

I'm starting Lithium very shortly, I let you know how I react to it by then.

 

[Tesha]

Physical impact - Weight gain, very and I mean very thirsty, headaches. Psychological impact - none at all. Didn't do a thing for me.

 

[Walilamdzii]

Physical impact - Weight gain, very and I mean very thirsty, headaches. Psychological impact - none at all. Didn't do a thing for me.

Yeah I'm finding that either the mania stopped by itself, or maybe it does work for mania... but I'm no more functional now than I was then. For me it's just constant tiredness, they said it helps with the lows... well, it doesn't. I think the medical model of psychological illness is largely bullshit. I'm depleted from a variety of things like complex ptsd, lost friendships and relationships, missing out on life events. I don't really buy into "it's a chemical imbalance"...

 

[suicidaleeyore]

I take 1g lithium a day (recently increased from 750mg). I don't have any physical side affects or anything. I had really bad nausea when I first started. It helps alot with my suicidal thoughts, makes them feel less compulsive and urgenf