Son stopping Lithium, is this mania or just happiness?

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Hello everyone,

We decided that the lithium that my 13 yr old son has been taking for the past

two years hasn't really been doing much other than upset his stomach so after

seeing the psychiatrist we decided to stop it and try an antidepressant.

The pdoc seems to think that the majority of my sons issues stem from his

Aspegers and sensory integration dysfunction and that an anti depressant will

help with the constant anxiety and obsessive thoughts. He didn't deny that my

son does have some Bipolar traits (and also having bp'ers on both sides of the

family) won't completly dismiss the BP diagnosis.

My question is about the way he's been behaving the past couple days...I know

the antidepressants havne't kicked in yet so it's not them causing this but I'm

concenred the lack of lithium may be the culpret. He's been very active, like

adhd active (but still is able to sit and play his computer games) But...he's

been very wiggly, bouncing around, loud and basically acting happy. I never

thought the lithium changed him but now I'm wondering, I forgot about my bouncy

bippity-boppty son and on lithium he wasn't this way. He's even making his funny

little comments and asking silly little questions again. Yesterday he even

walked up to me, smiled and hugged me, completly out of the blue. I'm not

complaining one bit (even though the drumming everything in site is a bit

annoying) I just have that little voice in the back of my head warning me " WATCH

HIM CAREFULLY " He stillis having his periodical meltdowns over little things but

for the most part he's more bouncy and giggly. Has anyone else experienced

anything like this when stopping a mood altering medication?