It was horrible. I don't recommend it, but I do understand why you'd choose to do so.


Lithium was killing me and pdoc refused to wean me off so I flushed the lot of them down the toilet.

This was back in October of 2011.


I had about 2 weeks of physical withdrawal symptoms. Cold sweats, fever, hallucinations, body aches...

It was honestly really horrid.


Then just when I got through those, my brain seemingly went into shock from not having any chemical support because I cycled 3x a day from one extreme to the next for almost 4 months straight.


It was exhausting, confusing and really disruptive. Honestly crazy making business, so I understand why most patients crawl back to their pdocs when that happens. It's so easy to confuse our brains re-adjusting to no meds with being worse off without meds... Idk what I would've done had I been working at the time.


Anyway, things settled down after that and I felt better. I was more symptomatic on meds, and the side effects of lithium were too terrible to bare.


So in the end it was worth it for me.