Posted by Laurence on June 27, 1998 at 21:58:16:
In Reply to: Re: Have you tried this yet? posted by Beth on June 27, 1998 at 15:47:01:
Hi Beth,
To answer first your questions about Prednisone, I am due to take 50mg a day for 10 days (25mg in the morning and 25mg at night). I only started taking it just last Wednesday and I was thinking that so far so good as no side effects have shown up yet. However, I note your comment about sleep deprivation and I see that I am typing this at 2.55 am. So just maybe that is one side effect that is already beginning to show up.
On the Lithium front, I was taking 1200 mg a day (3 400 mg tablets, one every eight hours)and I have reduced this now to 800 mg which seems to work just as well. I find not too many problems with Lithium, although it may well be slowing me down a bit and my ability to concentrate may not be what it was. That loss of concentration might, however, just as easily be accounted for by loss of sleep, which happenend all too frequently before I got hold of Oxygen.
I do hope I haven't set a hare running on the libido front with Lithium. I felt sure that I had recently read about that possible side effect, it was because the comment explained how I felt (or perhaps rather more appropriately didn't feel) that I remembered it. However, in view of Patrick's remark above, I went back through the links and the paperwork with my tablets and I can't now find the comment. It may well be therefore that I am wrong on that point and it was the side effect of some other medication that I was reading about. Perhaps the Lithium was just screwing up my memory a little.
Like you, I am very fortunate to have an understanding spouse to help me through this. She has a similar sense of humour and could fortunately see the funny side of my dash for the oxygen cylinder the other night.
We obviously share sleeping arrangements! My wife is on the right and I'm on the left and as I have the cluster headaches, the oxygen is on the left.
Good luck to you.
Laurence