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Want to vomit

deleted_user
deleted_user
This lithium is making me sicker. And I take it with food.
*puke*
dancingd
dancingd
Yeah,and the Pdocs will say it may take a week or 2 ,for the upset tummy settles.

I was sick for weeks.
Luck to ya hun!
deleted_user
deleted_user
But I've been on 600mg for 2weeks and I am just now getting nausea
deleted_user
deleted_user
hard peppermints to suck on used to help me while I was on lithium
deleted_user
deleted_user
Does Lithium make anyone else have to go to the bathroom alot? I never get sick on it.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I have been on lithium for two yrs and never had that happen am on 900mg. Is this normal or what?
deleted_user
deleted_user
Yup just call me piddling Pete.
Hapless
Hapless
Seeking Peace

if you are just now getting symptoms -- call your doctor. You may be taking to much. That stuff works on a blood level.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Hi. I just started on Lithium a week and a half ago on 750mg a day. Since then I have felt nausea every day and find myself running to the bathroom alot.
deleted_user
deleted_user
BTW I find it helps me when I DONT take it with food or eat food in little increments throughout the morning. I have lost 3 kilos (about 6 pounds) in one week from this :P
deleted_user
deleted_user
Lithium I found in extended release tablets like lithobid tablets. Theses tablets are manufactured to disolve in your intestines not your stomach. You feel upset stomach due to stomach absorption. Take one of the extended release, cures the stomach problems. The increased urine production "stay close to the toilet"
Community Leaderacuriousfish
acuriousfish
I'm now on 1000mg.

the peeing is apparently because your kidney function, you pee and then need to drink, rather than the other way around. re feeling sick, it was worse at a the point I was on a medium dose, I was never actaully sick. Someone told me to drink a big drink of water if i was feeling sick.
deleted_user
deleted_user
It gives me the constant shits.....you would think that would help with loosing weight..lol!
deleted_user
deleted_user
Sooooo, the groggy, foggy, tired,pissy,nausea feelings were too much. She said to just stop the med all together.
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