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Bipolar diagnosis--Starting Lithium
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<blockquote data-quote="jcox" data-source="post: 232264" data-attributes="member: 6583"><p>My son who is six began Lithium about a month ago. We have noticed that his moods have stabilized somewhat on it already. He shows less agression, less hyperness, and more overall baseline moods than he did before it. He is able to stay on one topic and hold conversations without his brain racing so much. He needs to get bloodwork done to check his levels. They said we need to be careful to watch him for diarrhea, vomitting, or trembling because those are signs of toxicity. From all I read about Lithium it says that the therapeutic level is very close to the toxic level. So far he has not had any signs of those things and his psychiatrist recently raised up his dosage again. We have to get the bloodwork done and then it might be raised again. They started him on the lowest dose. Now he is on 300 mg twice a day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jcox, post: 232264, member: 6583"] My son who is six began Lithium about a month ago. We have noticed that his moods have stabilized somewhat on it already. He shows less agression, less hyperness, and more overall baseline moods than he did before it. He is able to stay on one topic and hold conversations without his brain racing so much. He needs to get bloodwork done to check his levels. They said we need to be careful to watch him for diarrhea, vomitting, or trembling because those are signs of toxicity. From all I read about Lithium it says that the therapeutic level is very close to the toxic level. So far he has not had any signs of those things and his psychiatrist recently raised up his dosage again. We have to get the bloodwork done and then it might be raised again. They started him on the lowest dose. Now he is on 300 mg twice a day. [/QUOTE]
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