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Old Jul 23, 2012, 09:30 PM
garden gal garden gal is offline
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Rohaq,
I'm so sorry to hear about your struggles! Sounds like an incredibly difficult experience. Prolonged, intense heat is such a difficult thing.

We recently had a long stretch in the upper 90's and 100's where I live. My apartment is minimally air conditioned (one little window unit), so I was sweating buckets all the time. I ended up going to urgent care because my feet/ankles ballooned up to double their normal size, and I was really dizzy... I was worried that it had something to do with my lithium level getting too high due to dehydration. No increase in psych symptoms for me, thankfully. The doc never did figure out what caused it. I have wondered, though, if those of us on psych meds might be especially vulnerable to the heat for a number of reasons.

I hope you can find ways to stay cool... it has been a really hot summer!

peace,
Garden Gal
Thanks for this!
depressedalaskan, Rohag