Lithium, Circadian Clocks and Bipolar Disorder [A Blog Around The Clock]

I have been on lithium for 28 years.I had a ultra sound I've been diagnosis with chronic kidney damage . Do you know any lawyers that can help me? July 22, 2009

I have taken Lithium for 28 years.I had a ulta sound I have chronic kidney danage. 7/22/09

I had bipolar disorder several years ago and I cured it with light therapy and a high salt diet (isotonic). The light therapy has an obvious connection to the circadian clock – it lengthens daylight. But it took me a while to find how salt was connected. I discovered that in the evening my urine sodium level rose dramatically. This implies that my sodium blood level falls at this time, probably in preparation for sleep. When my sodium level goes below a certain level it causes a condition called hyponatremia which includes mental symptoms. The high salt diet prevents me from going below that critical level and the extra evening light therapy slows down the loss of sodium during the evening hours.

I was on lithium for abot a month and it made me so physically sick that I could not take it. My stomach became so bloated I could not sit down.