Posted by grace b on March 26, 2000, at 12:10:54
In reply to Re: Tapering off Lithium, posted by Noa on March 24, 2000, at 15:24:39
I was on lithium and had to come off of it because it no longer worked for me. I was taking 900 mg. daily when a new doc that I stated with, (my old on retired), wanted to try depakote. The way he weaned me lithium was to replace a pill for a pill. In other words I stopped taking one lithium at a time and replaced it with a depakote. this process took a week at a time for eack lithium I dropped. I had no side effects. It took three weeks to be off the lithium totally. I now take 1500mg. of depakote daily and I am making out fine. I do take effexor and respirdal as well as the depakote but I am stable for the time being and have been since November of last year. Good Luck, Grace
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