Maybe it will cure your parathyroid disease. Lithium works, period. Later on, I think it will prove to be a safer mood stabilizer than lithium. (15)    Tondo L, Baldessarini RJ, Floris G. Long-term clinical effectiveness of lithium maintenance treatment in types I and II bipolar disorders. Never listen to doctors when they say “the rewards outweigh the risk”.

Perhaps you want to add my account to the non-existent “evidence”. A few months prior to stopping, I noticed that I was becoming fatigued, which I never had before.

Research other alternatives. The antipsychotics are necessary for psychotic episodes in hospital. The consequences of suddenly stopping psychotropic medication in bipolar disorder. While I understand the importance of bringing to light the dangers of all medications, I think its also dangerous to call a life saving medication “poison”, or to imply it is a placebo.

In my view the evidence that lithium helps prevent episodes of manic depression is far too weak to outweigh the harms it can cause (which commonly include thyroid damage, kidney damage, and acute neurological toxicity at doses very close to those used in … It works for me.You might want to add some CBD (cannabidiol), to further reduce your anxiety and to help with whatever depression still persists. Long ago, Schou tested equivalent levels of lithium orotate and carbonate in rats, and found that the had equal access to the brain. I spend many years suicidal and my mother and grandmother both died at 55 from self medicating this illness. She’s been on CBD for 3&1/2 weeks and 2&1/2 weeks on Lithium orotate. Do not take lithium if you are taking medications for depression.Lithium increases a chemical in the brain. I would happily make my books available free, but I am bound by copyright law, and the publisher has to make a living.

Parathyroid disease, if not cured has a survival rate of 22-24 years. I just want to get off lithium more than anything because of the emotional blunting which is so severe and inexplicable.

Where can we buy your book?My reply to George would be the same as my reply to Shannon. However, as I explain below, once someone starts on lihium, there is evidence that there is a high risk of having a relapse if they stop it.

Even once you and your psychiatrist feel you have established a predictable baseline, and you’re cruising along confidently year after year, changes associated with age may put your kidneys at risk. Fran has been on Lithium since that time, she is now 62 yrs. A high salt diet and propranolol corrected my low blood pressure. But it’s not my life, my mind. They could have dropped her lithium level way down and have kept her stable with certain antipsychotic medications which can also hold down mania.It used to upset me greatly when the psychiatrists at our hospital stabilized young women on depakote, an inferior mood stabilizer, just because it was easier to manage than lithium in the first week of a hospital stay.

Report of the Veterans Administration and National Institute of Mental Health collaborative study group.

Doses of orotate starts from 5-40mg in compare to pharma 100-300mg ions of Lithium. They could pass through objects and there is no hiding from that…The two times in life i havr been the most manic at that stage of my life (gradually worsened) to the point if psychosis has been after being on lithium for over 2 months at a therapeutic level. Even if you are sure it will do no good for your parathyroid disease, you will worry less about it.Fortunately, most people don’t get parathyroid disease, but it can happen and does.