My pdoc won't prescribe lithium for me - but it's for a strange reason. Lithium requires blood draws and I have no veins! It literally takes 10-12 tries to get blood out of me every single time. The nurses at the local hospital won't even try to start an IV on me - they call an anesthesiologist to do it - and that takes about 20 tries. It is ridiculous. My pdoc won't put me through that.