Hi everyone! Just an update. Thanks to your advice my husband & I had some good talks. He had an appointment with his pdoc and they are checking his lithium level (it was last checked in the spring),...
Hi Randy I am so sorry to hear what you and your family are going through. I have to say I agree with Ellie, you can't blame yourself. I hope he is going to be okay. Sooblue...
Nickie My kids are 6 & 8 and I think they both just at this point when he snaps at them think he is just in a bad mood like any other adult sometimes gets. Yet, in the past month or so my 8yr. old...
Hi Sue! I know when my husband started the lithium that was one of his biggest complaints, was he lost all of his willpower. The weight he lost this past year was pretty much the weight he put on...
Thanks Nickie for your input! We have 2 kids & I worry so much on how this effects them. I know when I have brought his attention in the past to him snapping at the kids & how they don't understand...
Thank you everyone for such a warm welcome! It is so nice to talk and get input on this. There are some days I feel like I just can't do this all by myself. I try to be as supportive as I can for...
Hi Sue! My husband is currently just on Lithium but has been for 10 years & in the past at different times been on different antidepressants & had gained weight too. Last winter he went on the South...
Hi Sandra! My husband has been giving me some mixed responses on what his doctor has suggested with the light therapy. For quite some time he told me they didn't think it would help (which I...
Hi! I'm new to this chat thing but not to experience of living with bipolar. Long story short, my husband was diagnosed 10 years ago with this and for the most part has done well on lithium....