"just started lithium 300mg daily, 5 days ago. i&#039;m hopeful it will help with the depression, i&#039;m just always so extremely tired (been like this since my teens, i&#039;m 42).  i by accident found out i was bipolar, i know sounds strange but it started when my doc prescribed tegretol for neuralgia. it didn&#039;t help for it but instead got rid of my migraines, lifted my mood and was taking me out of the depression, was working great but then became allergic to it, i&#039;m now on lithium and i pray that it works just as great as tegretol.  i currently take adderall, lithium, restoril and doxycycline. i&#039;m prescribed zoloft but stopped taking it because i didn&#039;t feel any better."