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Old Mar 14, 2019, 06:46 PM
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It's was kidneys. I was on Lithium. My dose was extreme though. My doctor didn't know wtf she was doing apparently and just kept increasing it. I had severe toxicity with 4.6 levels. I went in and saw her several times shaking like I had parkinsons and walking around looking like a drunk person hardly able to talk and her response was to increase it... anyway, it's highly unlikely for that to happen or get to that point. I just ended up calling an ambulance one night because I knew something was very wrong and she wasn't doing anything about it. I don't really have much memory of being in the hospital. Just a few brief flashes, having a seizure.

Not trying to scare anyone, just what happens when you have an extremely incompetent doctor, not necessarily a flaw with the medication
Yeah I was considering mood stabilizers and my pdoc was like well you’ll have to be much more careful with your bloodwork if we go that route.....it’s standard to get bloodwork when titrating those....
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