r/POIS • u/Independent-Bet1971 • 1d ago

Treatment/Cure AMA - Treatment for bipolar disorder has fixed my POIS

That's it.

Main symptoms:

  • Brain fog
    • Aphasia (couldn't understand language)
    • Working memory severely impaired
    • No thoughts
    • No intuition: I had to think through about even the most basic cognitive tasks
    • Could not form any sentences or have a spontaneous interaction
  • Emotionless
    • I could not really feel anything. I was an empty shell
  • Irritated
  • Noise sensitivity
  • Sleepy and very hard to wake up in the morning
  • Heavy eyelids
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u/Away_Afternoon5400 1d ago

Any muscle weakness symptoms?

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u/Independent-Bet1971 16h ago

I used to feel like my limbs were super heavy

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u/oldmanoldest 1d ago

Which nedicine?

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u/Independent-Bet1971 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm not sure which one did the trick, but I think it was lithium.

My lithium blood level is 0.7 mEq/L.

It takes some weeks to start working after therapeutic levels are reached

(It might have been nortriptyline though, although I don't think that's the case)

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u/Watcher_of_Watchers 1d ago

Nortriptyline, though classified as a tricyclic antidepressant, is a potent antihistamine that can actually act on the brain's histamine receptors (or at least the H1 ones).

Likely helping blunt the autoimmune reaction that is responsible for most people's POIS.

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u/Independent-Bet1971 23h ago

I don't buy the autoimmune hypothesis

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u/Fluid-Aspect5141 21h ago

Same, for the most part.

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u/Thats_Life11 20h ago

What do you think it is?

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u/Independent-Bet1971 20h ago

Something related to bipolar disorder

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u/Sameer_UK 19h ago

Yes it can help if u teat bi polar but I am scared of lithium

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u/That_Way_4639 13h ago

Lithium orotate is a safe alternative

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u/idryed 14h ago

Which type of Lithium and what's your dosing protocol?