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Originally Posted by lolagrace
My husband has had trouble with both lithium and lamictal. He went into severe toxicity with lithium despite careful monitoring, went into kidney failure and had to be put on dialysis in the ICU for a week. Very scary time. Needless to say they won't be putting him on lithium again. (Note: he has complicated medical issues so his toxicity was probably tied up with those problems but we probably will never know for sure.)
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That's the exact thing that happened to me, my kidneys shut down and I was in the ICU for a week on dialysis and I had seizures. I was on 1800mg though and my levels went to about 4.6, I barely remember being in the hospital I was so messed up, they sent me home with a walker. Crazy experience, it helps some people but when it's too much it's dangerous as hell
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