Hi all,

I’ve been on Lithium for around 10 years, it’s been a life changer for me. Aside from mood stabilisation, I feel it’s had positive effect on my mental health in general, odd little kinks and glitches ironed out.

However physically I feel like it’s been quite rough on my body. I’ve had various issues to do with inflammation (e.g. hospitalised for cellulitis), have developed horrible painful psoriasis on my scalp that turns into welts, and get incredibly itchy in my hands and feet especially so take antihistamines to get under control.

Does anyone else have experience like this or am I wrongly thinking this may be lithium related? My GP doesn’t think it’s necessarily related but may be.

I’m considering changing meds but not sure of the effectiveness of others, what the side effects may be and how they would make me feel.

Thoughts welcome 😊

  • rigatti
    2•1 year ago

    My wife was on lithium until last year when she was hospitalized for some kind of kidney infection or something similar, which may have been caused or exacerbated by the lithium. She also had Covid the week before this happened, so it was really tough to figure out what was going on. Needless to say, she got off lithium just in case and swithched to Seroquel. It took a while to get the dose right (and I’m not entirely convinced it is yet) but the side effects haven’t been terrible.