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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LITHIUM CARBONA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | sexual harassment | Extremely suicidal. Constant terror. Strange obsessive thoughts. Never even liked cops shows until lithium when I suddenly started obsessing on serial killer documentaries. So glad that is over! Horrible nightmares. Weight gain. Incontinence and often peed myself. Bed ridden for many months after quitting. Panic. Depression. Completely disabled me. Tongue swelled up. Teeth grinding. Tongue rubbed teeth until roots exposed. Nerve pain in legs. General stupidity. Unquenchable THIRST! Horrible body odor. No joy. no creativity. No sex. Ruined my life. Off for over a year but still trying to get some joy and feeling back. Will never trust a shrink ever again. | The doctors told me it is natural. They don't want to hear that the reason I came for counseling was to deal with sexual harassment. They just want to shut women up by any means! | F | 59 | 6 months 100 mg 1X day | 5/9/2022 | 1 | Bi-polar I | Always fatigued, feel full, slight nausea | Forced to take this med. Would stop right away if I could. Still dealing with invega sustenna traces in my body. Lithium side-effects more tolerable than invega sustenna side-effects (panic attacks, restlessness) | M | 34 | 10 days 600mg 1X day | 6/8/2021 | 1 | Bipolar, severe depression | Daily nausea/vomiting, SEVERE derealization, weight gain, acne, loss taste, nightmares, SUICIDAL | The 6 weeks I endured this were torture. I wouldn't go thru it again for anything. I'd rather die. And can you imagine, I told the Dr and nurse and they insisted I increase from 300mg cuz I wasn't yet at therapeutic dose??? For me it was like literally taking poison every day. | F | 53 | 6 weeks 300 | 9/16/2018 | 1 | Bipolar II Disorder | extreme thirst and bloating, weakness in hands, poor memory, dry mouth, weight gain, headaches, extreme anger, worsening anxiety and depression | Lithium made me thirsty to the point where I would retain so much water that I had to change clothing sizes. While taking it, especially during the first two weeks, I felt like I had an unexplainable rage inside of me and also had violent urges. Even after the anger subsided, my anxiety skyrocketed and I felt more depressed than I did before taking the drug. My hands became so weak that I couldn't even write the way I normally do. I stopped being able to focus in class. Immediately after lowering my dose and tapering off of the medication, these occurrences started to dampen and go away. I will never try this medication again. | F | 20 | 1 months 300mg 2X day | 3/7/2018 | 1 | Depression-Dr was messed up | Suffered serotonin syndrome, neuroleptic malignant syndrome. Basically your life is finished when this happens. | My Dr was absolutely a fool. No other words can describe him more perfectly. He prescribed this with a old school tricyclic and two weeks in I suffered brain, muscle, nerve and kidney damage. Safe*** pharmacy admitted not checking for interactions and the hospital I was taken to during the reaction left me in a wheelchair and ignored me for over four hours. They made a fake triage report and tried to cover this up and my fiance threatened breakup if I sued. After taking this two days I told her it was making me sick and wanted to stop but she got violent and demanded I keep taking it. My life is finished. Do you think Dr's would give this junk to their sons or daughters? Absolutely not. People talking about how this saved their lives but their thyroid or kidneys are finished are out to lunch sorry...you think destroying your body in order to exist is worth it? They have bigger problems than what this stuff supposedly helps. Ask your Dr what meds their son or daughter takes...the answer won't be this stuff. There has to be something else to take besides this organ destroyer. After I nearly died and the Dr admitted it was his fault he tried to change his notes to fend off any repurcussions. When I caught him he dropped me as a patient...thanks Dr Sloan. This was the absolute worst experience of my life. | M | 42 | 2 weeks | 2/14/2017 | 1 | Serotonin syndrome/neuroleptic malignant syndrome...I think that should say enough right there! Yep, Dr Sloan was a fool and just pushed a combo of meds on me and never asked a single question like, how are your current meds helping? | A combination of this and another med made me feel very sick and I had told my Dr that I was on natural supplements and wa's about to start another one and he said it was absolutely okay to take with this garbage. I was taking the combo for two days and started feeling very sick and I mean sick. I was on vacation with(my ex)and after mentioning that the pills were making me sick and I wanted to stop taking them...she demanded I continue taking them. Not wanting to deal with anymore silent treatment or anger I kept taking them because I had made a terrible decision to be involved with this person. Two weeks later was rushed to the hospital but the hospital never took it seriously and left me in a wheel chair for over four hours and at that point I suffered brain, kidney, muscle and nerve damage. A Dr finally saw me and said to go home it's a panic attack and wouldn't believe me that I was having a severe reaction. I ended up walking home at 3am and I could've taken a cab but I honestly didn't think I would work anymore so walking was good. I woke up in the morning urinating blood and my muscles had melted and atrophied and my nervous system was destroyed. The hospital later tried to cover up their malpractice and I had proof, my Dr admitted that he gave me bad advice and later changed his notes but I caught him red handed. My life was ruined, I stopped all of the meds in the morning and didn't realize I was going to go through massive withdrawals and did I ever! Ruined my l | M | 41 | 2 weeks | 12/1/2016 | 1 | Bipolar 2 | Vomiting, nausea, heat sensitivity, weight gain, frequent urination, memory loss and excessive hair loss. | Despite it being such a low dosage I felt the effects pretty quickly. It stabilized my mood but the side effects were too much to handle. I was losing my hair in huge tufts anytime I showered or brushed it and I couldn't handle my job anymore because I kept vomiting every time I felt hot which was always cause I work in a really hot place. The weight gain didn't help either. It happened rather quickly and didn't really cause a change in appetite. | F | 23 | 2 weeks 2X 150mg | 10/5/2016 | 1 | Bi polar 1 | Too many. Major memory loss. Excessive hunger hence weight gain. Dry skin and scalp. Insatiable thirst. | F | 62 | 2 years 875 | 8/16/2016 | 1 | Depression and anxiety | Extreme light headedness, nausea, diarrhea, excessive urination, depression, insomnia, racing thoughts, insomnia, increased thirst and acne | I could not leave my house because I wanted to keep throwing up and couldn't walk straight. | F | 20 | 7 days 600 MG 2X day | 2/23/2016 | 1 | Depression and anxiety | Extreme light headedness, nausea, diarrhea, excessive urination, depression, insomnia, racing thoughts, insomnia, increased thirst and acne | I could not leave my house because I wanted to keep throwing up and couldn't walk straight. | F | 20 | 7 days 600 MG 2X day | 2/23/2016 | 1 | Depression augmentation | Depression, anhedonia, feeling extremely cold, shivering, insomnia, diarrhea. | Took lithium 150 mg to augment antidepressant (which had been working, but needed a boost to work better); after a week started to shiver severely, felt unbearably cold in a 72 degree room. After this, depression instensified to a terribly low melancholic state with anhedonia. Doctor had me immediately go off lithium, side effects lasted 3+ weeks, even though lithium leaves your body after 5 days. I know this med is a miracle for some people, but it left me in a low I had never experienced before. | M | 46 | 12 days 150 mg 1X day | 1/13/2016 | 1 | Bipolar | Dry mouth. Metal taste in mouth. Hypothyroidism. Tremors. Confusion. Hallucinations once. Dry hair. Dry skin. | It does quiet a stormy mind no question. It also is guaranteed to damage your thyroid very quickly. Damage your kidneys slowly and put you at risk for permanent side effects like tremor and goiter.I discontinued 1 year ago and still have a tremor. I regret taking this drug. If you want to be fat, this is the drug for you! | M | 43 | 9 months | 11/30/2015 | 1 | F | 23 | 2 days 1000 | 11/19/2015 | 1 | Clinical Depression / suicidal | I've been on 800 mg of Lithium, 45 mg of Mirtazapine and 150 mg of pre gabalin twice a day. Just recently I have had unbearable hunger pangs continuously. My stomach won't stop gurgling. My psychiatrist told me it was the interaction between the lithium and mirtazapine. She is taking me off the lithium. So have just gone down to 600 mg of lithium for three weeks, and then down to 400 mg for three weeks, and then 200 mg for three. Lithium didn't work for me. Wouldn't dream of going back on it...too toxic for the stomach. I'll take clinical depression over hunger pangs 24/7. | Do your research, but be aware that only about 50% of people have a positive response to this drug. It is not for everyone. | M | 51 | 4 months 800mg | 11/5/2015 | 1 | Bipolar | Extreme weight gain, Highly ineffective | About as ineffective as a placebo. It did nothing for my bipolar at all, no change in moods, in fact my family said I seemed to be twice as irritable and snappy while on Lithium than I was before. I couldn't notice it, but everyone around me did. Extreme weight gain, I was gaining about 11 pounds per month which is not cool. With my metabolism, it's extremely hard for me to lose weight unless I starve myself and gaining it is easy as cake, plus heart problems run in my family so the last thing I need is a medicine that doesn't work but makes me fat and unhealthy. I am 29 now, I took Lithium at age 21. | F | 29 | 3 months 100mg 1X day | 5/6/2015 | 1 | Bipolar I | Constant Tiredness | M | 29 | 3 months 1200 1X day | 4/20/2015 | 1 | Bipolar | Sexual dysfunction, increased obsessive thoughts, 20lb weight gain, other sexual side effects (I began to feel attracted to the same sex when I had previously never had these feelings), anxiety, depression | There is research that lithium in lab animals can change their sexuality and reduce fertility | F | 23 | 1 years 1000 | 12/4/2014 | 1 | bipolar | Dizziness want to throw up stomach upset hot cold hate it | F | 55 | 10 days 600mg | 10/11/2014 | 1 | Major Depressive Disorder (Add-On) | Initially caused nausea, hot flashes, hand tremors, increased thirst. | Dose must be slowly titrated and monthly blood tests are required during first several months to determine proper blood levels since their is a risk of lithium toxicity if improperly dosed. No increase in mood for major depression. | M | 26 | 6 months 750 1X day | 2/8/2014 | 1 | bipolar and borderline disorder | Severe shaking (not fine tremors) my whole body shaking and hands shaking like I am withdrawing from alcohol/drugs. My throat burned and severe dry mouth (must drink lots of water). "Medicine Head" feeling. But, the shaking is by far the worst! Cannot even put on mascara! Embarassing when paying at stores, the money exchange is very awkward. I feel like I should disclaim to clerks why I am shaking so bad, but what do I say? "btw, I am shaking like this because I was put into the psych hospital for 10 days as I was suicidal and having a bipolar episode, and my borderline almost got me killed in a road rage incident...." Yeah, that would help alot... | This medicine is apparently dangerous. I would think, anytime a medication regiment that required that "lithium levels" be checked, you are not taking something that's necessarily great for you. The psychiatrist in the hospital told me "Well, the "SIDE" effects happen, before the "GOOD" effects do"... BS! I cannot function like this. I quit taking it, now I am seeing that quitting cold turkey acts as an antagonist to perpetuate the side effects even worse. So, now I'm shaking all over my body. I wish I knew when this would stop - I know I have mental problems so this is likely a statement in redundance, but "I FEEL LIKE I'M GOING CRAZY!" DO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICINE!!! If you are one of the fortunate that this medication helps, kudos, but, if you've never taken it, I would not if I were you. Ask the doctor to give you something different - and, if you feel the shaking coming on... (it came on me gradual and progressively worsened)... call your dr. ASAP. | F | 37 | 11 days 300mg 3X day | 12/15/2012 |
LITHIUM CARBONATE (LITHIUM CARBONATE): This medication is used to treat manic-depressive disorder (bipolar disorder). It works to stabilize the mood and reduce extremes in behavior by restoring the balance of certain natural substances (neurotransmitters) in the brain. Some of the benefits of continued use of this medication include decreasing how often manic episodes occur and decreasing the symptoms of manic episodes, such as exaggerated feelings of well-being, feelings that others wish to harm you, irritability, anxiousness, rapid/loud speech, and aggressive/hostile behaviors. (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)