Posted by Squiggles on June 7, 2007, at 16:35:42
In reply to Re: The right to non-compliance » Squiggles, posted by linkadge on June 7, 2007, at 16:21:23
> Just a question.
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> How do you know that the lithium was botched? Isn't it possable that it was a perfectly normal amount of lithium and that you just had a breakthrough episode?
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> Or is there a concrete reason that you know.
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> LinkadgeI know because i opened the cap and it was a smaller amount, because it tasted chalky, had a different reaction with water; also it was a different company (won't mention it here) and at the time there was a Health Canada Warning about 300 caps of lithium being weak. I also know because my dr. complied with my report and the switch to the higher, older brand (after the 6th month when psychosis set in) brought me to stabilization.
I think there is little doubt, though i did consider the thyroid butting in at the same dose, and the possibility that reinstating a stronger (my old brand) dose jolted me. But you have to reinvent the length of thyroid effect, and explain how the psychosis set in before the reinstatement of the old, stronger dose i used to take.
One more thing-- my friend has crashed into depression after discontinuation, time varied.
And there were a couple of times i got off lithium and crashed.If you can come up with other theories that wont't fit the fascist psychopharmoclogy picture,
let me know.Squiggles
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