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Originally Posted by gravyyy
Well cat... I am also bipolar II. I feel like I am reading about me in what you wrote. I also take Trileptal as my primary mood stabilizer. I also take Lamictal, Risperdal, and a small dose of Seroquel to sleep at night. I have been on Abilify but wasn't having good results so it was discontinued. I have been having problems lately after having reached a period of relative stability for a few months. My pdoc basically said to me that Lithium is my only option left to try to get control. What are your reasons for hesitating taking the lithium??? Just interested in your thoughts about it. I'm sorry you're having trouble right now. I know all too well that it's a horrible struggle every day. Hang in there!
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Indeed we are having equivalent treatments gravyyy. About the lithium question, I think that Depakote is the preferred choice of my pdoc but she said if I continue being sleeping so little, she will change it for lithium. I know that Depakote and lithium must be monitored as in how much of them we have in the blood. They must be withing certain concentrations in order to be effective and don't have problems. If we have more of them than a certain value, it can be dangerous (I haven't get to know what dangerous means). The difference between Depakote and lithium is that lithium has a narrower "safety concentration values", so it must be administered and monitored more carefully. Maybe that is why my pdoc prefered Depakote first, jmo. But as long as any of the two is within safety values one should not have any problem at all. I really hope you can get a more stable situation with lithium. Please let me know how it goes
. I'm just curious, how long have you been ill and when were you diagnosed as bipolar II? You too hang in there! I think there must always be a solution to this problem
