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Old May 07, 2019, 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by MsSunflower View Post
I agree. I'm always thirsty after I take it but I think the Lithium plays a part too. You took 1500mg? I'm on 300mg at night and find it quite sedating. Can't even imagine taking that much. Or does it work differently at that high of a dose?
I think it is less sedating at higher doses. I took part IR and part XR to help me sleep which worked at 1200 mg until I had a severe mixed episode and then it did nothing for sleep (neither did anything else). I do thinkk the hope was that 1500 mg would sedate me more than 1200 mg but it didn't work that way. I was on 1200 mg for a few years and 1500 mg for only a month or so.

Lithium definitely increases thirst. I was always thirsty when I was on it no matter what the combination.
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