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Sad to hear that lithium didn’t work for you. I have zero side effects luckily, except hypothyroidism for which I take L-thyroxin, and have zero side effects again.

Have you found meds that work for you?

I tried many meds before lithium In order

• Quetiapine. Due to psychotic mania . Worked like a charm
• Aripiprazol. As a replacement for the Quetiapine. Because I had depression and no energy. Worst medication I’ve ever tried. I didn’t make it past the first 3 days due to severe akithisia combined with being really tired and sedated. Pure agony holy shit. Stopped it and back on Quetiapine again.
• Lamotrigine. Didn’t work at all. Even with 325mg daily my serum levels were way too low.
• Escitalopram. It worked a little bit against the depression, but my QT time was prolonged so I had to stop.
• Lithium. I was hospitalized, and we decided to try Lithium. First they fastly tapered me off of Lamotrigine. Then started Lithium. It works perfectly. I don’t wanna say it and jinx it but I really feel like I’m cured. Euthymia is nice.

Right now I’m on 675mg Lithium, 300mg Seroquel XR, and 50mcg L-thyroxin.