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Lithobid (the time release version) makes a big difference in my difficult child. How old is your son? It is the "tried and true" BiPolar (BP) medication and my suggestion would be to look at it like this- several mood stabilizers require blood draws so if it wasn't lithium, it could be something else. You are there and can ask (or demand) a blood draw whenever you have a concern and make sure the psychiatrists stay on top of this. It is the only medication so far that completely stopped difficult child's raging and sleeplisness for about 7 mos. Then I don't know what happened- we're still working on that. But, during that 7 mos., any effort to switch the lithobid to something else left us with raging and sleep problems again until the lithobid was back on track. Also, difficult child gets major stomach problems the first few days of a lithobid dosage increase. Once, the stomach problems didn't go away after several weeks, so this is why he takes lithobid instead of lithium and he gets 1/2 the dosage in the am and 1/2 in the pm.


Hope that helps!


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