Darkeyes is right on about how some will have side effects but we should not judge a medicine from what others say. Sometimes I don't even read the side effects of medicines on the leaflet and I just see how I react to it. I do not take Lithium but I see that Darkeyes, her brother and many others have had excellent results with it. I am one of the rare cases, I believe, that had bad intestinal problems from it and had to stop it as a result. I hope things improve for you tracyrip!

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