Comments on: real life experience: bipolar and medication http://www.moritherapy.org/article/bipolar-medication/ making lives better, making better lives Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:02:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Robert Gagnon http://www.moritherapy.org/article/bipolar-medication/comment-page-1/#comment-677610 Robert Gagnon Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:45:21 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/bipolar-medication/#comment-677610 many years ago i had a short few weeks experience with lithium prescribed by a psychiatrist whose behavior and talk seemed odder than mine. Since my body had very negative side effects, I stopped the medication on my own. When I visited the psychiatrist one last time he admonished me that I should have come to him to get a prescription that would have countered the physical side effect I had experienced. My last word to him was that I didn't believe in medication that would offset unacceptable side effects of the primary meds. I did not seek a second opinion and I have survived well enough these last 12+ yrs without lithium salts. Yes I experience mood swings and do my best to work thru them and avoid any crazy behavior. Right now I want to reduce the meds I take for Diabetes 2 and High BP. I don't want more meds. I want fewer meds and must do the work to get there! .-= Robert Gagnon´s last blog ..<a href="http://robertg69.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/the-image-of-scientists-celebrating-the-lhc-restart-got-my-attention/" rel="nofollow">The image of scientists celebrating the LHC restart got my attention</a> =-. many years ago i had a short few weeks experience with lithium prescribed by a psychiatrist whose behavior and talk seemed odder than mine. Since my body had very negative side effects, I stopped the medication on my own. When I visited the psychiatrist one last time he admonished me that I should have come to him to get a prescription that would have countered the physical side effect I had experienced. My last word to him was that I didn’t believe in medication that would offset unacceptable side effects of the primary meds. I did not seek a second opinion and I have survived well enough these last 12+ yrs without lithium salts.

Yes I experience mood swings and do my best to work thru them and avoid any crazy behavior. Right now I want to reduce the meds I take for Diabetes 2 and High BP. I don’t want more meds. I want fewer meds and must do the work to get there!
.-= Robert Gagnon´s last blog ..The image of scientists celebrating the LHC restart got my attention =-.

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