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Originally Posted by QueenAccountant
If you take any medication for bipolar, you pretty much should not drink at all. Besides the mania/depression effect, it also kills your liver/kidneys. Alcohol is frequently used for self-medication when people don't have anything else.
I'm not saying that you're a horrible person for drinking, b/c I get the urge to drink every once in a while too. I have really bad skills at limiting the amount I drink, so I choose to not drink at all. (Alcoholism runs in my family, on both sides) I've had numerous times, where I've blacked out from drinking and can't remember what the hell I did. When I was younger 20-22, I would drink and do other dangerous substances, until one day when I realized that mixing all of that with my BP meds never worked out the way I had planned.
Have you thought about not drinking?
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I have thought about not drinking, but coming from a life where I was always drinking in college and now around my work environment it is just a huge adjustment. Not that it is not one that I am not willing to make, its just completely changing my life around.
I don't usually feel the need to drink, but when I do drink I feel the need to keep drinking and don't stop.
I am pretty to new to this, as I just started taking meds a few weeks ago, but I didn't even think to correlate the affects that the meds and alcohol will have on my liver overall. Does anyone have any experience with the combination of Lamictal and alcohol?
Tks everyone for the answers and support, it helps to be able to talk to people about this.