I went toxic on Lithium after 30 years taking it. My kidneys failed to excrete it and the build up gave me a stroke (2004). After that I have taken 600 mg. Seroquel and 100 mg. Zoloft. In 2006 my doctor found I had high calcium level. Went to endocrinologist - found that Lithium had enlarged my hyperthyroid glands and I had large nodules on the thyroid gland. I had all those glands removed. Lithium had thinned my hair as well. In fact, I look back over 30 years and I don’t think Lithium did much of anything for me. I WILL NOT TAKE ANTICONVULSANT DRUGS FOR MY ILLNESS! My Endo doctor added Vitamin D and now I have a nice head of hair! While I take Seroquel and Zoloft, my niece takes Abilify and Lexapro.

I’ve had spiderwebs on my face for 3 days, even in my eyes. I had a routine complete blood count today, via my psychiatrist. They’ll call me if there’s a problem with my LITHIUM level but I can’t tell her I have a drinking problem due to insurance reasons. My LITHIUM levels have always been in range… maybe not now? LITHIUM bad on liver. Booze bad on liver. Is it catching up with me or will these webs go away?

I was in one hospital for a month, and another psych hospital for 6 months. I was given lithium and another drug (I think was called consta). While I was in the hospital, I’d wake up in the morning and urinate into my pants. I complained to the doctor, He told me it was a prostrate problem and made no change in my treatment. I also noticed that my mental functions were limited, I could only read one page of a newspaper and that’s it. So the drugs are starting to make me a retard, when I used to be a systems engineer. I exit the hospital and start taking all drugs immediately. My frequent urination dissapperas, which is a sympton of taking lithium. But now I have sleeping problems. I sleep 12 to 15 hours per day, but still feel very fatigued and tired, as if I got no sleep. I keep waking up at 2:30 or 3:00 o’clock in the morning, and I can’t fall back asleep as if I run out of neruotransmitters. I can’t fall back to sleep unless I take a tryptophan capsule. Then when September arrived, my health problems got worse. I start getting sick every day, and I figured it out. The drugs I was taking messed up my body temperature, which was about 97.6 during the day and 95.5 after I would wake up in the middle of the night. I starting to get acupuncture in Mid September with only modest improvements, which is unusual because acupuncture usually gives quick improvement. My body temperature goes up to 98.1 but I still felt a little tired during the day, and I still woke up at 3:00. I know the drugs in the hospital messed up my health, but I could figure out why I still felt lousy. About 6 days ago I started to take an oral chelation product (EDTA) which I bought off of the internet to lower my blood pressure, which range between 150 to 180. I noticed after 6 days that I felt MUCH BETTER and last night was the very first night in over 1 year when I slept the whole night through without waking up. I decided that the oral chelation therapy discovery is an accidental discovery, because it is actually curing the health problems related to sleep and chronic fatigue, and now I know why. The EDTA is getting rid of all of the lithium that has accumulated in my brain, kidneys, and other body organs.
I am now detoxing. Chinese medicine states that the kidneys are the “pilot light” of the human body, because they produce the most heat. I did some research on the internet and it stated that the kidneys have a very high concentration of Mitochondria, which produce ATP, the energy molecule that powers the human body. I reasoned that the lithium was interfereing with the MItochondria’s abilithy do it’s job, because it was binding with one of the Coenzymes in the mitochondria. I also did more research on lithium on the internet and the internet stated that lithium is NOT CONSIDERED A ESSENTIAL TO THE NUTRITION OF A HUMAN BEING. To give a patient lithium is totally NUTS, because it severely damages the body. It makes you a retard and an invalid who can’t sleep at night. My sister in law’s father took lithium for many years. He was much smarter than me, because he had a Phd. in Chemistry while I only have a BA in Chemistry. Her father has such bad chronic fatigue from Lithium that he just laid on the couch all day and HE NEVER GOT BETTER. I know that that feels like, last summer I spent the whole summer laying on the couch watching TV because I was to tired to do anything else. WHEN I GOT OUT OF THE HOSPITAL, I WAS SO TIRED AND FATIGUED I FELT LIKE A 100 YEAR OLD MAN WHO WAS ABOUT TO DIE. It was from lithium accumulating in my tissues over a 7 month period. If you want to be a fool and feel like an an old 100 year old man, then continue to take your lithium. I bet you 1 million bucks that my sister in law’s father die due to a coma because his body temperature got too low, which is a sympton of taking lithium. One other thing, before I leave. I was misdiagnosed with bipolar, which was nonsense because I never got depressed. I had a panic attack that led to manic, and I should have given Xanax. All I need was 3 days on Xanax in the hopsital, and I would have been fine. I think Psychiatrists are quacks.