I am writing this post to inform everyone that if you drink much water and tea that you can flush your meds out of your system. I just got out of the hospital for this reason. I kept getting more andmore crazy manic. Pdoc upped Lithium but my level kept dropping. She thought I was not taking my meds. I was religiously. The hospital pdoc figured out that It was not in me because I was drinking a gallon and a half of water a day on top of other liquids. I have been craving water for months. I also found out that I had water toxicity which luckly they caught. I have to have testing done know for diabetes incipidus which is different than normal diabeties. This type of diabetes in volves vasopressen and kidney function.

[Direction]

It's good you found this out ... that does sound like a large quatity...

[dkbear]

I drink a lot of coffee in the morning. I wonder if i am flushing my meds out too? I can attribute my meds. starting to not work again and having a lot of rapid cycling to when I started back drinking a lot of coffee in the past month. I had 5 different cycles of depression/mania on Saturday and 4 on Sunday.

Thanks for letting us know. Starting tomorrow, my coffee is getting reduced dramatically.

[justpassingby]

I found out today after reading the potential problems from drinking too much water can do to your meds, but also it takes away your sodium and potassium levels too. When I was in the hospital i had to take a large quantity of two pills to replenish my potassium, but they never said why. I always thought drinking water was healthy and never realized you could have so much problems from drinking tooo much. Go figure, even what's good for you is sometimes too much.

Actually if you drink too much water in a short period of time it can kill you. There was a case on the news where I live a while ago. Some teens had a contest to see who could drink the most water without going to the potty. The young girl ended up dying. Your kidneys can only filter so much liquid per hour at a time. If you drink too much at once it causes water toxicity. I read it does not matter if you drink much over a long time. Its if you drink a lot too quickly.