i was on it for about 8 months...the blood tests were nothing to worry about...honestly i didn't like the way it made it made me feel...i felt sick from almost the first day on it. the problem was my dr also started abilfy the same time and i had huge problems with that also..so it was difficult getting off that first and then the other drugs he tried after that. it seemed that no matter what drug my pdoc tried to comabt my symptoms the side effects were jsut horrific...i literally lost like 10 months of memory from all of this...a total nightmare! it took some time to finally get off the lithium and all the drugs with the exception of effexor and topomax. now things are much better

some folks do well on lithium some don't...i was one who didn't...i just didn't tolerate it well.