Posted by SLS on February 19, 2023, at 11:19:58
In reply to lithium adjustments, posted by rjlockhart37 on February 17, 2023, at 18:02:18
Hi, RJ.
How are you feeling at this exact moment?
What symptoms are you targeting with lithium? What does a dosage of 1200 mg/day lack that you should want to increase the dosage of lithium from 1200 mg/day to 1500 mg/day?
Can you describe what symptoms / mental state you are using lithium to treat?
Do you experience depression?
Do you experience mania / hypomania?
Do you experience a mixed state?
Do you experience schizoid / psychotic / delusional symptonms?
Which symptoms do you feel that you need the most help treating?
- Depression?
- Mania / Hypomania?
- Mixed States
- Schizoid Psychosis?
- Manic Psychosis?
- Psychotic Depression?
- Rapid-Cycling?
- Generalized Anxiety?
- Social Anxiety?
- Obsessive-Compulsive thinking?Name the three drugs that helped you the most - regardless of for how long the improvement lasted - even if only 3 days. What symptoms did each drug successfully treat. Dosages?
Name the three drugs that made you feel worst. What symptoms did each drug exacerbate or generate? Dosages?
This is the type of information that would help guide a psychiatrist when developing a treatment regime.
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
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