I was on it for a couple years. Average dose was 900mg , But once popped up to 1200 and promptly went toxic. Hella scarey ! A few times I was able to pick up that I was heading to a danger zone and would D/C it for a few days to bring it back down.

I think at the time it did help, I was a real mess and I had to find stability so I could work to build coping skills, Meds can only do so much , Yanno

I was thirsty , even with increase in daily fluids. I broke out with terrible Acne , I felt like a 12 year old. I seriously had trouble finding words and spelling them? Eeeek even Dictionary . com was often useless as I could barely remember the first few letters at times. I mean the word " what" was a huge problem for me. I also got the lovely tremor... I seriously was concerned about my Kidneys and Pdoc understood my concerns , even with routine blood work I ran into trouble, so I stopped taking it.

I can't take AD's... flings me right into mixed.

Was Lithium helpful ? Yes at the time. I do still have the tremor and I stopped the junk 1.5 years ago.. pisses me off .. but it could be worse.