Psychiatrists hate her! One weird £5 trick for Mental Normality

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I asked the psychiatrist I last saw if it would be a good idea to have some lamotrigine with my phenelzine and he said no, that could push me higher up

How best to get something is to be really honest with your doctor.

Lamotrigine has become kind of fashionable - when I was on it back in 2006 or whenever it was, I felt like the only one

god no lamictal was awful

it was ok at first but things got progressively more chaotic, I look back and can only remember feeling very uncomfortable in my own skin

I just want my reboxetine back

or my mood to spontaneously go where it would normally be which is notch or two above this

Have you tried Madonna?

I can get a stimulant prescribed, but only because I have a diagnosis of ADHD. I choose not to take them anymore as while they made me feel so much better (and so much more focussed), I didn't like the way they made me feel (no pleasing some metals ;) ) I felt like a robot and I didn't really feel anything

When is your lithium being checked next? I've gone up to 1200 and then meeting with Freud again on Friday to see if that makes a difference.

I feel incredibly fortunate to have such a great psychiatrist who I see so often. You should all move up here, but to a different cmht from me, just the same city.

I was the first person in my trust to ever try it, I preached the gospel of it everywhere but ended up taking a shedload of antipsychotics on a regular basis, which I don't need with lithium

I think it just had an amazing effective campaign and seduced everyone even my crusty old chlorpromazine loving consultant

Metals = mentals. Daft phone

I'll have it checked maybe this week or next? Levels were 0.69 and they need to be above or at least at 0.8

Mine were still .4 except for one rouge week when it was .6something so still having to get it done each week.

I used to piss about with my Li. I calculated the dose I'd need to get plasma conc within acceptable levels and took enough to get the right [Li]
Of course, I had little therapeutic benefit from it. D'oh

I think the most stupid thing I've done with lithium was when I was restricting to under 500 cals a day and I kept popping extra pills to keep myself in a state of chronic mild toxicity so I felt too nauseous to eat

but I also kept keeling over everywhere and was risking all sorts of horrible irreversible problems

feel v sad for self thinking about that

I would do extreme things to get a consultation with the psychiatrist who prescribed me lamotrigine - I think he probably saved my life. Certainly made it bearable for a long time. But a) he's in Canada now and b) I suspect he is eyewateringly expensive even compared to other consultants as he seems to publish a lot of stuff and do a lot of talks.

Sounds like it was a tough time Mitchy. I have no clue what my Li level is as the lab lost my sample. It usually hovers around 0.8 on 1200mg.

Oh, and c), I'm not sure he does private work any more anyway.

That does sound a bit crap Polly

Mitchy, I was badly restricting at the time too and "they" were trying to get me sectioned. Not the best time in my life
I wonder whether just taking the Li might have achieved better results :/

Am I failing at being Mentally Disordered by taking the amount I'm prescribed? Should I be changing it about and using it as a way to eat less?

Feel like a massive fat failure, although I'm not currently wanting to be a dead fat failure so I suppose it's working, which is better than nothing.

You're probably doing better than I was, Caulk :)
I'm feeling like a fat failure too and I'm undecided on the dead bit, which is a huge improvement tbh
Up, are you ok?

I'm the fattest person on this thread so stop it

just take it as prescribed, life is so much easier, I will never (I hope) intentionally poison myself with it again

(hope physio doesn't weigh me, they did before)

I decided that Li was knackering my kidneys (it wasn't, I was just being dramatic). I sometimes wonder if I'd be better on it, as I'm currently un-medicated, but I'm not sure if I want it (awkward, much?)

I'm only fucking about with the dose of my prescribed medications a little bit

Freud spends a long time going into detail about what will happen to me if I take too many of any of the medications. I'm also only allowed a weeks worth at a time from him

It would be a lot better if I had a history of attempting to End Things by swimming with sharks or parachuting without a parachute, then he would be a lot less textbook.

Lithium knackered my grandmother's kidneys. I think they used to prescribe doses closer to the toxic level then, though - they thought of the therapeutic window as being very narrow and quite high. It didn't help that when she was dying of the shit kidneys and delirious, they assumed she was just being mental again and shoved her in the nuthouse.