Re: lithium (not the Nirvana song)

[Guest guest]

> That is so amazing Jacquie, it really is. Makes me wonder about me.

> I'm very much a " everything has to be the same " type of person, but

> I'm also the class clown. Mrs. Personality.........or is it the

> waitress face?

Well, waitress face is something you conciously put on. I don't think

that's the case with you!

And you'd really have to look back into your childhood to know the answer.

As an infant, I cried constantly and would not sleep. My mom had to

medicate me to sleep for two years. I was hyperlexic. I talked early and

precociously, using multi-syllabic words at two years old -- " the little

professor " Aspergers describes. I had no concept of danger and I was a

climber. My social 'coup' in kindergarten was to grab another girl by the

hair and tell her, " I'm Jacquie, and you are going to be my friend. "

Because of my extreme intelligence, they tried to skip me up a grade -- and

I kicked the new students and bit the new teacher in the leg. My mom says

the teacher described me as 'possessed'. They put me back in my classroom,

and I was fine.

Just a taste,

Jacquie

[Guest guest]

> That is so amazing Jacquie, it really is. Makes me wonder about me.

> I'm very much a " everything has to be the same " type of person, but

> I'm also the class clown. Mrs. Personality.........or is it the

> waitress face?

Well, waitress face is something you conciously put on. I don't think

that's the case with you!

And you'd really have to look back into your childhood to know the answer.

As an infant, I cried constantly and would not sleep. My mom had to

medicate me to sleep for two years. I was hyperlexic. I talked early and

precociously, using multi-syllabic words at two years old -- " the little

professor " Aspergers describes. I had no concept of danger and I was a

climber. My social 'coup' in kindergarten was to grab another girl by the

hair and tell her, " I'm Jacquie, and you are going to be my friend. "

Because of my extreme intelligence, they tried to skip me up a grade -- and

I kicked the new students and bit the new teacher in the leg. My mom says

the teacher described me as 'possessed'. They put me back in my classroom,

and I was fine.

Just a taste,

Jacquie

[Guest guest]

>I'm one of the lucky ones I think in that I don't have to deal with

lithium.

>

> Maggie

I think that's true! I talked to my doctor about switching to depakote, but

she told me it's a choice between " the poison you know and the poison you

don't " , referring to all the side effects. So I decided to just stick with

the familiar.

Jacquie

[Guest guest]

>I'm one of the lucky ones I think in that I don't have to deal with

lithium.

>

> Maggie

I think that's true! I talked to my doctor about switching to depakote, but

she told me it's a choice between " the poison you know and the poison you

don't " , referring to all the side effects. So I decided to just stick with

the familiar.

Jacquie

[Guest guest]

> I respect you both immensely, Jacquie & Kris, for taking the lithium.

> I don't know very much about BP except what little I've heard about

> it and Sally Field on ER, but the common thread seems to be that

> people who have to take it don't like taking it. Weight issues to

> boot must really make it a PITA.

>

> It's a sacrifice you make for other people, especially your children.

> I admire you!

Thanks, Karin!

Yes, it is hard to be compliant with lithium, but mostly in the early days

of taking it. The side effects are HORRIBLE.

Jacquie

[Guest guest]

> I respect you both immensely, Jacquie & Kris, for taking the lithium.

> I don't know very much about BP except what little I've heard about

> it and Sally Field on ER, but the common thread seems to be that

> people who have to take it don't like taking it. Weight issues to

> boot must really make it a PITA.

>

> It's a sacrifice you make for other people, especially your children.

> I admire you!

Thanks, Karin!

Yes, it is hard to be compliant with lithium, but mostly in the early days

of taking it. The side effects are HORRIBLE.

Jacquie

[Guest guest]

> I respect you both immensely, Jacquie & Kris, for taking the lithium.

> I don't know very much about BP except what little I've heard about

> it and Sally Field on ER, but the common thread seems to be that

> people who have to take it don't like taking it. Weight issues to

> boot must really make it a PITA.

>

> It's a sacrifice you make for other people, especially your children.

> I admire you!

Thanks, Karin!

Yes, it is hard to be compliant with lithium, but mostly in the early days

of taking it. The side effects are HORRIBLE.

Jacquie