So my dad ended up passing away. He had a second annurydm burst and second stroke while still in the hospital. I’m still in the USA handling his affairs. And I need to get myself ok I can’t function like this and there’s no one else to do all this. My brother was living with my dad when this all happened and he’s very disabled-more than me. He has a genetic disability and s severe learning delay. So I’m setting him up to live with my other brother but I have to get him a case worker and get him on social security and social services. I know how to do all this but my own issues are making it to hard.

The Lithium the German PDoc put me on has been holding my head above water and I had labs done that showed my lithium level was only .3 taking 450mg. So I added another half a pill like she recommended but it started really bad insomnia. I’m not severely depressed but am still mild to moderately depressed. The insomnia has been almost a week straight so I’m wonder did any of you get insomnia when raising the dose and did it go away?

I’m thinking of sticking to 450 mg lithium and asking the dr to add lamictal instead of more lithium. I didn’t take the extra half pull of lithium yesterday (225mg) and my sleep was back to normal last night.

Anyone else experience this?
Any of you using the combo of lithium and lamictal?
-Melissa