Same here, had I had it earlier, I would have now had a lot more money than I do. And possibly still married, too, but money for sure. I am glad you do not experience side effects. And I, too, have never been a zombie on it. My only hope is that in the next 30 years something equally potent is discovered, because otherwise when I hit 70 - the age at which they stop prescribing Lithium, for kidney reasons or not, I am not sure - and start living on SSDI, I would be in big trouble. When I was in hospital, I met a woman in her early 70s who had lived happily on Lithium without a problem until she was taken off it, and then it was in and out of hospital with mania.

But it is too early for me to worry that far .