Today is Friday, and on Monday, my therapist, and I, made the decision to take me off of lithium, because an overabundance of it in my blood, last week, put me in the hospital for two days with some weird side effects. I have been on lithium for approximately 25 years. It has done me well until this point for this bi-polar disorder that I have.

We are tapering me off the drug slowly. The first two days I took 3, not 4, 330 mg, pills. After that, for two days, I  took two pills, and, now, I am on one pill, until I get a lithium level taken, an liver enzyme check, and check back in with my therapist, again. My therapist has mentioned Depakote as a replacement pill.

I am doing well on less lithium. I have not gotten extremely manic. I have not gotten depressed. I do have more energy, and find that my writing is better, less forced than it has been on the pink pills.