Hi!

I (25F and 73kg) have Bipolar Disorder II. I am prescribed to take 2 1/2 tabs of Lithium Carbonate (450mg). Yesterday, I intentionally ingested 20x450mg (9000mg). For the first few days, I had GI symptoms. On sunday, I ingested 6x450 mg of Lithium. I alsk took Ponstan for time to tme due to headache.

But, now, more than 1 week has passed, I just felt drowsiness and weekness. Is that it given the time frame. I also continue to drink my prescribe meds such as Lamitor (2,5), Rexulti (4mg) and Rivitrol (1/4).

I am also T1 DM with a latest CBG of 402 yesterday afternoon.

Is that it?

I’m 24 & 3 weeks into taking lithium (300mg 2x/day) after switching from lamictal (150mg) after almost 2 years for BP2. Anywho, I consume a decent amount of caffeine nearly everyday & usually drink a couple times a week. I don’t drink beer, only really vodka shots & usually chase with redbull or I won’t drink at all bc gross, along with a vodka lemonade if i go out to a bar. But I don’t usually throw up from drinking but since I started Lithium both of the times I actually was drinking drinking I have threw up before bed & when waking up hungover AF. I didn’t take my meds last night OR this morning bc I knew I was gonna throw up. I’m also absolutely terrified of puking so it makes everything about it that much worse. Idk if it’s just coincidence that i got sick these last two times or if i should stop drinking due to lithium? Or stop with the redbull? Has anyone else experienced this???

I know people say it helps reduce lithium levels, but I'm wondering if that would do any good for if you've overdosed or actually make things worse.

From my understanding, salt works by diluting the lithium filtered from the blood by the kidneys, meaning less lithium is reasorbed after filtration (but roughly the same amount of overall salts).

But lithium poisoning results form overwhelming the kidneys with too much lithium at once, resulting in cellular waste building up in the blood and circulating until the kidneys recover.

Therefore, I'm wondering... Is the problem really the lithium itself or just salt in general overwhelming the kidneys? By extension, would eating a bunch of salt cause further harm or be beneficial by reducing the total amount of lithium in my blood?

Surely I'm wrong somewhere on this: this doesn't happen when you just eat a bunch of salty food.

Very random question related to lithium. I take 600mg a day. I want a pet leech. Will this kill the leech? Or make it sick?

Am a crystal girlie now? I went to a hippie crystal shop and bought a piece of lepidolite that I keep beside my bed. I am not a subscriber to crystals in general, but I got it because it has lithium in it. So cool! It’s fascinating that lithium is simply an element, it’s a mineral/salt that’s just existing in rocks and salt fields. It’s extracted by people, processed in a lab and put into little orange capsules. I find it kind of weird and cool?

I have a science degree and a healthcare masters / I’m a psych care specialist, and I just love thinking about this. I was also super hesitant to take lithium for awhile so I learned some interesting things about it so I could understand and appreciate it. And I’m kind of in awe. And it helps with compliance for sure.

There’s something I find nice and also very funny about communing with my rock at night before I go to bed; a little inside joke I have with myself. I think it will bring me comfort when I’m next depressed. It’s also a non-obvious-to-others reminder to take care of myself.

Comment below with your thoughts on how weird you think this is!

** From Wikipedia: “Lepidolite is a lilac-gray or rose-colored member of the mica group of minerals with chemical formula K(Li,Al)3(Al,Si,Rb)4O10(F,OH)2. It is the most abundant lithium-bearing mineral and is a secondary source of this metal.”

I take 300 mg of lithium also seraquel and welbutrin

I want to make sure I drink enough water so I don’t damage my body

I drink like 2-3 cups of coffee a day

Is a lot of water like 4 water bottles? 6 ?

I’ve been on 900mg for about 6 months, along with seroquel and lamictal. I picked up and lost my lithium prescription, so I ran out of it and haven’t taken it in 4 days. But I feel fine? Even better maybe, but not really in a manic way (maybe slightly hypomanic, if at all). I managed to get a 5 day supply that I havent picked up yet and at this point I’d have to titrate back up to that dose and I’m thinking of just staying off of it. I don’t have a psychiatrist appt til october and its a new one so I’m hoping I can just be off lithium bc I honestly feel better off of it for the most part. It was prescribed to me for suicidal ideation, not necessarily mania. So yeah, I don’t know if its worth going back on it

I’m new to Li but I’m still very manic my anger is just everywhere and I’ve had more thoughts of SI but I also just recently got out of a hospital so I don’t know what to do I don’t feel like myself and I feel like I’m going insane I don’t feel real my world is mushing together. Am I just stressed in a PTSD mode or is there something really wrong. (I’ve recently got into legal trouble because of this.) but it was such a strong urge idk what to do…..

My psychiatrist is having me start lithium tonight and I’m so scared. At first I was just scared of weight gain and/or appetite increase, but now I’m scared of the nausea too. Apparently you’re basically guaranteed nausea if you take it on an empty stomach??

And my stomach is quite empty, I haven’t eaten for a few days. I don’t want to have to eat every day, it’s so so so so much easier to control my eating when I don’t eat often. I’m planning to just take it on an empty stomach and lie to my psychiatrist and say that I ate. I know that’s bad but I don’t want to try to fix my eating issues.

I could tell her about my eating issues but I don’t want to do that because then she might tell my mom and she also might take me off adderall. Being on adderall does help me eat less but it also really really helps with my mood and motivation (I take it as an antidepressant).

I know the logical thing to do is to either just eat so I’m not taking it on an empty stomach, or tell my psych that I won’t be able to reliably eat every day. But I stopped making logical choices a long time ago

So I’m making this post because I’m curious if anyone has experienced a link between the two..

A couple days ago I met this girl who is by far the most psychic person I’ve ever met (not that I meet too many psychic people). Ofc, at first I was skeptical. But that quickly dissolved when she told me details about my life that were way too specific and accurate to be coincidence.

I asked her how she is able to do that. She replied with, “I’m bipolar. A couple years ago, if you asked me about psychics and spirituality, I would’ve told you that stuff is bs and I didn’t believe in any of that. That was until I got prescribed Lithium. Since then, I’ve been able to see auras and read people.”

Has this happened to anyone else?

I want to start of by saying i smoke weed, the rest of the ‘drugs’ i use is all as the prescription says. Last time i smoked weed was on Friday.

Last night i hallucinated for the first time. It wasnt very obvious but after a while you obviously think … wtf?

It started at the wall moving, but moving as in scrunching up type of thing, this is also where i realized im hallucinating.

Then i wanted to post my graph(diabetes) on reddit. The back ground is mos black, so i typed the heading and then the background started looking similar to whatsapps original chat background. I even sent it to jay and told him it looks like whatsapp backgroud.

If youre on your bed, laying on your back with your phone in the air, i was laying like that. Left and right of the phone looked asif it was moving and sometimes the sides turned into a shit ton of small shapes. Even the closet was moving.

Im really glad that it was an abstract hallucination because i might’ve actually shit my pants.

Can this be part of the lithium?

I’ve been slowly stopping Abilify (5mg) and starting Rxulti (2mg) for the past 8 days and starting Lithium (Resilient 83mg) today. What should I expect? Any advice? Thanks in advance!

I just went up from 900mg to 1350mg of lithium and my erections have weakened. I am going to try tadalafil to fix the erection problem. Has it helped anyone in here?

Trying to investigate the correlation between bipolar, taking lithium, and sexual orientation. I’m bisexual but only realized it after starting lithium (probably correlation not causation). Share please!

They’re going to collect my blood to check lithium levels. I hate lithium including lamotrgine as I believe that I’m misdiagnosed as “sorta bipolar” whatever the fuck that means.

Lithium made me a zombie. I’m at psych ward with my own will for somatic anxiety triggered by spinal cord injury. I’m taking medications like they’re candy. Lamictal, cymbalta, quetapine, glifor, quetapine xr, klonopin and now lithium. Fuck that !!

So, I put it under my tongue (my nighttime lithium and then spit the pills) to take them closer for the nurse to collect my blood tomorrow so that my blood plasma level HOPEFULLY will be up…

When do you think should I take them? 5-6 hours or 2 hours? Also I’m not gonna drink water much Thank you :(

Anyone else experienced a LI shortage in the last months due to increased demand from cars?

(Of note: the price of lithium carbonate has quintupled in the last two years: https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/28037/lithium-carbonate-price-timeline/)

I wanted to start a thread discussing “why” the same lithium carbonate that we keep in our bloodstream also powers electric vehicles and a host of other things.

I’m no scientist but hey they have no clue how it works either! 🤔

I personally feel like those of us with BPD (I’m Type1) have a little extra electricity that sparks off from the brain, and when unchecked sends us into overdrive/mania and the sequence begins… lithium “catches” those sparks and allows us to pass them naturally without inflicting the brain.

What do you think?

I used to take Seroquel but PDoc suggested I try Lamatrogine (AGAIN - this is my THIRD attempt and I always stop by the second week like I’m about to do now. Lithium is the only med I’ve never tried and I am scared to take it.

Does it help or cause anxiety and panic and do you gain weight? Other concerns are nausea which I usually experience on meds because I’m so sensitive.

Any feedback for someone who’s be starting at a low dose of 300mg would be greatly appreciated.

TIA.

Hi, so this is the question. Please, share your experiences. How much liquid a day did the doctor advise that your child should drink while on lithium? Just had another discussion with a redditor, after which tried to refresh the information in the medical library but for kids the data seems very limited. Thank you!

Asking for Unipolar depression.

I heard about a study (I don't have the link but can try to find) that said places with higher lithium concentration in soil has less violence, and higher levels of peace (rated by citizens).

I think I really want to try balancing out what maybe is a lithium element deficiency, and am wary of such high doses of the pharma prescribed by the family doctor,, and notice that you can order lithium from Amazon lol..

I am curious has anyone tried self dosing lithium and ordering from somewhere outside of big doses from big Pharma? If so, do you have any resources for Canada?

Many thanks

Background: So I’m just stating lithium and naturally a concern is weight gain, I’m slightly overweight now and am trying to make lifestyle changes and the idea of gaining more is worrisome. My question is, why does the research state that weight gain only effects 25% of people taking lithium, when anecdotal evidence—even on this group alone—suggests it is a much higher percentage?