Posted by barbaracat on August 13, 2007, at 2:53:49
In reply to Re: Lithium Good Bad Ugly? - Very Good » barbaracat, posted by Squiggles on August 12, 2007, at 20:54:56
>I have always thought this but every time I asked for the dose to be lowered, i was told I was in the normal therapeutic range (0.8-1.2). I figure this is medical policy and any doctor would do the same thing, at least at a university hospital. It's the bloods that count. - Squiggles
I rather think it's how I feel and not the numbers that matter, although I understand they have to have some kind of reference point. I've had pdocs threaten to take me off it if I didn't get up to the range. Every time I did I felt terrible and so now when I get a new doc, I simply explain that I don't do well on a higher dose, refuse their attempts to increase, and they eventually give in.
Call me non-compliant, but we're all different and I don't fit into the pigeon hole of those standards. No doubt, they were determined from testing 25 yr old male college students which I definitely am not.
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