Oh Lithium, how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.
- You make me drink at least a gallon of water a day.
- With you I can only take tylenol—the most inferior pain med.
- You make me gain weight and prevent me from losing it.
- Your breakouts are super fun.
- Oh, and you didn’t cure my depression.
So, without my doctor’s supervision, I started to taper off of you. Only 300mg so far (I took 1,200mg), which I started on Saturday. Then on Monday, a headache started…and it still hasn’t stopped.
Could this be Lithium withdrawal? I thought maybe. So I called up my psychiatrist and broke the news that I went against her advice and perhaps had a resulting headache.
And what did she say? Am I drinking enough water? People get dehydrated in the summer, you know.
I drink at least a GALLON of water a day. If that’s enough, I simply don’t know what to do. She said she hasn’t heard of a headache being a side effect of tapering off Lithium.
Well, I think it is…so there. I managed to find only a couple people on the interwebs who mentioned a tapering headache.
That’s the only explanation I have for now, and if it doesn’t go away I’ll ask my general practitioner. But for now, hating on Lithium a bit more will have to do.
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