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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 113465" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>I don't know anything about Tegretol but difficult child has been on lithium twice. Of course, medications can work VERY differently on different people and we found lithium worked differently on him both times. The first time didn't last very long because he wasn't even stable enough to keep a regular schedule and I was concerned about the levels in his blood when he wasn't sleeping regular or eating regular and this was not a time release lithium. Plus, I wasn't seeing any change. psychiatrist took him off then for those reasons and we tried something else. Later in the year (last summer) after difficult child was back to a "normal" schedule of sleeping and eating he was put back on lithium. Raging completely went away the first couple of mos. He was switched to Lithobid (time release version) to try to help with side effects. I'm not sure if any other improvement was a result of lithium or not- depakote was added and has helped quite a bit with "hyper" moods. Now, psychiatrist said we'll try SLOWLY lowering lithium to see if depakote alone will do the trick. Apparent side effects to lithium difficult child has had: stomach problems for days after increase in dosage ( one dosage level left him sick the whole time until it was lowered), bad acne- even gets in his scalp, weight gain (not sure if this is lithium related). Also noteworthy, signs of raging are re-appearing, althouugh difficult child is "stopping" himself before it really becomes a rage- not sure if lithium (or depakote) is giving him a little more self-control or if it means that lithium just doesn't work long term for him. Of course, there are blood draws and LOTS of water drinking. These both taper off a little after a while.</p><p></p><p>Hope this helps!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 113465, member: 3699"] I don't know anything about Tegretol but difficult child has been on lithium twice. Of course, medications can work VERY differently on different people and we found lithium worked differently on him both times. The first time didn't last very long because he wasn't even stable enough to keep a regular schedule and I was concerned about the levels in his blood when he wasn't sleeping regular or eating regular and this was not a time release lithium. Plus, I wasn't seeing any change. psychiatrist took him off then for those reasons and we tried something else. Later in the year (last summer) after difficult child was back to a "normal" schedule of sleeping and eating he was put back on lithium. Raging completely went away the first couple of mos. He was switched to Lithobid (time release version) to try to help with side effects. I'm not sure if any other improvement was a result of lithium or not- depakote was added and has helped quite a bit with "hyper" moods. Now, psychiatrist said we'll try SLOWLY lowering lithium to see if depakote alone will do the trick. Apparent side effects to lithium difficult child has had: stomach problems for days after increase in dosage ( one dosage level left him sick the whole time until it was lowered), bad acne- even gets in his scalp, weight gain (not sure if this is lithium related). Also noteworthy, signs of raging are re-appearing, althouugh difficult child is "stopping" himself before it really becomes a rage- not sure if lithium (or depakote) is giving him a little more self-control or if it means that lithium just doesn't work long term for him. Of course, there are blood draws and LOTS of water drinking. These both taper off a little after a while. Hope this helps! [/QUOTE]
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