Hi, BTR, This is great information!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks so, so much for sharing your experience with lithium. I'll save your message and take it with me to the old/new pdoc. (The one I used to see b4 they changed him to a different clinic. I'm working on getting switched to the clinic where he is now.) I take 600 mg generic lithium carbonate, lithobid extended release. The other doc, the one I've quit, said that the blood levels 2-3weeks ago were at therapeutic levels. How are you doing now? Do you have a good med cocktail now? And are things in your life okay?

Forgot to say that I just added 25 mg/day lamictal for 2 weeks, then raising that to 50 mg/day. I don't know if it's placebo or what, but I just added it two days ago,and I've felt better ever since. But I also had a great therapy appointment yesterday. I/we are working on ways to diffuse tiny irritants like customer service reps/techs on the phone that are hard to understand and have driven me into rages. Today I called a new phone company, and the sales rep talked SO FAST and spewed out all this technical stuff....I asked her pointedly to please (I said please....) slow down because I could not understand anything she was saying. You know what? She did! And I understood! She took the time needed for me to write down some key facts what she was telling me, and I ended up (1) complimenting her and thanking her; (2) she just glowed, I could hear and "see" her glowing at how well she pleased me; and (3) she probably made a sale. I asked her if, after thinking it over, I should decide to subscribe to that company's cell phone service, did they have a way for her to get credit for the sale? She said that the company isn't set up that way, but would I like her to call me back tomorrow? So that's how it all panned out. Very satisfying for h er, and she'll never know what it means to me!!!!!! or why!!!!!