Had a really fun trip to Mexico with my husband. It was fast and exhausting. We saw Chichen Itza, Palenque, Tenochtitlan and Teotihuacan. We got back really late at night on the 4th and the next day I started a temp job which is going until the end of this week. So I've been super busy. I think I've settled on which psychiatrist to work with for the whole pregnancy thing. I've started to taper down as of 2 days ago. She's planning to taper me off Lithium really slowly, 150 mg/2 weeks. I'm nervous about being off of Lithium, but I'm starting to take better care of myself and planning to keep it up religiously to minimize the bad effect of being off of my medication. It's going to take around 3 months to get completely off and then who knows how long to get pregnant. I think I"m going to get back on a lower dosage after the first trimester, but even so I'm probably looking at being completely off of Lithium for something like 6 months minimum. Have lots of fears about being a good mom, having a healthy baby, losing my freedom if I do get pregnant.
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