I'm on lithium and Iv'e been taking it for almost 2 years now. The dosage had to be adjusted becuase I was at a really theraputic dose, but I started having... GI issues, especially in the morning. When I was at work there was no way for me to get to the restroom in time, so I backed off the dosage to what I'm on now.

I was taking Seroquel but wanted to get off of it and try something else, something that might keep my weight stable. After going over the list of meds I'd tried and either weren't effective or I had side effects my pdoc started me on different meds. Which led to side effects that were intolerable. So he put me on lithium.

I get blood taken regularly -but I had to do that with Seroquel . And he did ask me what I would do if i took the lithium and then started throwing up an hour or so later. I told him I wouldn't take any more Lithium and he asked me why not , "because then I wouldn't have any at the end of the month!" I guess a stomach virus was going around and he had one patient or more than one patient (he was purposefully vague) who became toxic because they were throwing up but taking more Lithium and enough time had passed that it was in their blood stream.

Meds are different for everyone. And some people have really bad experiences, some have medicore experiences and some have good experiences.

Before the Lithium the pdoc tried me on saphris and it was a ****ing nightmare. I lasted less than a week because the side effects were so intolerable.