I take lithium IR and have serious GI problems with IBS. I drink a lot of water and try to eat with my medicine to ease my stomach, but nothing has worked for me. Within thirty minutes of taking my AM dose I’m uncontrollably throwing up. I cant keep water down for hours and have to sip on pedialyte until the afternoon when I can have something to eat that’s light on my stomach. I rarely get sick at night though. I have had chronic nausea and vomiting for years before taking lithium, so I’m not sure if the medicine is specifically the problem. But only keeping down half my prescribed dose is a problem because it causes me to rapid cycle.

A few weeks ago, I started taking activia shots in the morning and at night with my medicine and went from constant vomiting to nothing. If you have trouble with nausea and lithium I really recommend trying it! It helped me so much.