Illuminateur
Bluelighter
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Briefly,
My pet sloth is being forced to take lithium for something in the range of supposed bipolar/manic depressive/borderline disorder. The sloth has been on lithium a few times before, and everytime feels "completely sane" and calm while on it, but in retrospect is shocked at the things that she said, did, and thought. It has an opposite of "stabilising" effect and acts more like Xanax or Ambien, derailing her relationships and life until she feels like she is in a worse place than when she started. Since she has finally recently successfully broken both a Xanax and Ambien addiction, and finds life much more palatable when she can keep the people that matter to her, she does not want another repeat of this experience.
However, while she blames most of her ups and downs on a disastrous train wreck of withdrawals and relapses and being forced to take various benzos and sedatives and injected against her will with antipsychotics, she currently finds herself in the predicament of having her finally stable (as much as one can hope;p) life disrupted by forced hospitalisation unless she resumes lithium, for which she will be blood tested.
She has run out of lithium all this week, and it has been the best week of the month, except for yesterday where she found 1 pill, and became depressed and angry at everything several times, and got into 3 fights with someone with whom she'd rather not fight and had to run after and hug and apologise.
So the question, how does one fake a test? Could high doses just be taken the day of and then chelated out? (Other citrate or orotate salts?) Lithium has a very narrow therapeutic range and high doses can easily be toxic, and the sloth is rather sensitive as is, so would like to be sure chelation would work. Can other metals like Zinc give a false positive? Are there forms of lithium that do not easily dissociate in blood but would register on a test with their counter-ion?
My pet sloth is being forced to take lithium for something in the range of supposed bipolar/manic depressive/borderline disorder. The sloth has been on lithium a few times before, and everytime feels "completely sane" and calm while on it, but in retrospect is shocked at the things that she said, did, and thought. It has an opposite of "stabilising" effect and acts more like Xanax or Ambien, derailing her relationships and life until she feels like she is in a worse place than when she started. Since she has finally recently successfully broken both a Xanax and Ambien addiction, and finds life much more palatable when she can keep the people that matter to her, she does not want another repeat of this experience.
However, while she blames most of her ups and downs on a disastrous train wreck of withdrawals and relapses and being forced to take various benzos and sedatives and injected against her will with antipsychotics, she currently finds herself in the predicament of having her finally stable (as much as one can hope;p) life disrupted by forced hospitalisation unless she resumes lithium, for which she will be blood tested.
She has run out of lithium all this week, and it has been the best week of the month, except for yesterday where she found 1 pill, and became depressed and angry at everything several times, and got into 3 fights with someone with whom she'd rather not fight and had to run after and hug and apologise.
So the question, how does one fake a test? Could high doses just be taken the day of and then chelated out? (Other citrate or orotate salts?) Lithium has a very narrow therapeutic range and high doses can easily be toxic, and the sloth is rather sensitive as is, so would like to be sure chelation would work. Can other metals like Zinc give a false positive? Are there forms of lithium that do not easily dissociate in blood but would register on a test with their counter-ion?
