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Lithium user survey.

Chuggernaught
Chuggernaught
A friend put this in my head. I'm overly curious about the correlation between Meds and blood type, so I am surveying effects lithium had on certain blood types.

So what is your blood type
and how did/does lithium effect you?

Either post it here or send it to me privately, but I truly want to know.
deleted_user
deleted_user
O+ 10 years now and still going strong. Lost a little hair and gained weight but it could be worse.
deleted_user
deleted_user
O+ works great, no side-effects (interesting topic!)
cb72
cb72
I'm A+, after a year, lithium maybe helped ~50%, but is definitely not working great.
cb72
cb72
No side-effects though.
deleted_user
deleted_user
A+ Lithium was the first med I tried and it works well for me.
Chuggernaught
Chuggernaught
nice bump position :)
deleted_user
deleted_user
O+ and when I took it I felt awesome. The best drug ever for me.. Then my kidneys were damaged and I was almost put on dialysis..
Damn side effects..
deleted_user
deleted_user
i'm Apositive. lithium made me feel like i was stoned all day. and not a good stoned either...
deleted_user
deleted_user
I'm ABpositive.. i went from 1800 of lithium to 600 a day and replaced it with neurontin... mainly cuz my doc thought it would help me lose weight... and he was right!

Don't think either way that it has/had a correlation with my blood type though. It has to do with your brain chemistry
deleted_user
deleted_user
40 yrs later, I've not clue what my blood type is.
deleted_user
deleted_user
A negative...I never responded to lithium at all, quickly became toxic and had to be taken off.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Blood??I have been drained of mine long ago! I thought I was being kept alive by BP meds. Which also explained my transsformation to SLUG.
deleted_user
deleted_user
B+ and very finicky
deleted_user
deleted_user
O+ Thought lithium was going to kill me. was so very sick and shaking and weak had to stop...managed to lose another job though.
Chuggernaught
Chuggernaught
bump