Hey everyone,
I just recently had my lithium dose raised by my psychiatrist to 1200mg a day. It's been a week and a half and I just started noticing strange things. I've been sering things that aren't there, like people and animals where they shouldn't be plain as day.
At work i kept seeing a cat following me around, and there couldn't have been a cat in my work. I also keep sering people starting at me. Like when I was driving I would see a person standing in the middle of the road. And last night i saw a person watching me from across the street when me and my fiancee got home, when i asked her if she could see them she gave me a weird look and said if I didn't smarten up she's take me to the hospital.
I don't think this is my bipolar because I've never had visual hallucinations before, just auditory. So I was wondering if this could be my lithium, I haven't had my blood levels checked and my doctor just noticed last appointment and scheduled me for this monday to get one.
I was also wondering if being on lithium can cause your episodes to be shorter. I've noticed since I started that it didn't get rid of them but just made them shorter, less frequent, and less severe. These are all good things but I was wondering if it's normal. Like, my episodes now last anywhere from 12 hours to 2 weeks. Before they were lasting 2 weeks to a few months.
Thanks for any replies I get!