Anyway, Feb. 1, 2014 I had my 3rd lithium toxicity. That was the end for lithium. This one involved being violently ill to the point my mom almost called an ambulance but there isn't a good place near here for psych and there was no way to get me to my hospital so we waited and watched and I stopped taking lithium. Sometime after that I began to get depressed and wanted lithium back, even knowing it was a bad idea. So my Seroquel XR was increased to 1200 mg. That stopped the symptoms I was having then pretty effectively. So at that point my meds were:
- Seroquel XR 1200 mg
- Emsam 9 mg/24 hour transdermal
- Klonopin 2 mg bedtime, 1-2 mg PRN
- Gabapentin 400 mg
- Topamax 25 mg
- Amitiza 24 mcg twice a day (constipation)
- Singulair 10 mg (asthma)
- synthroid 88 mcg (thyroid)
- Vit. B
- multi-vitamin
- Vit. D
- Calcium
- Amerge (triptan for migraines)
- magnesium (for migraines)
- Vicodin prn for migraines that don't respond to Amerge or that Amerge won't work for as it has a window of opportunity that is minutes long)
- inhalers as needed (I choose to not use one for maintenance because it makes me hyopmanic)
In April 2014 an extremely stressful event occurred in my family and I was using all my Klonopin and still couldn't sleep so a low dose of Valium was given. I could use 1.25-5 mg and mostly was pretty good around 2.5 mg. It worked quickly and effectively and I got 8-10 hours of sleep and woke up refreshed. I tapered off that in late May 2014.
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