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Sir,
carbamazapine is a mood stabilizer, her duration of treatment depends on number of episodes in past and was she treatment adherent.

It is a mood stabilizer. It may be stopped after 5 years after consulting your psychiatrist, provided she is completely asymptomatic during this period and is on regular follow up.

See for to check for the kidney failure you need to check renal profile rather then the lithium levels .so please get your blood test done then consult me back ok.

OD prepartion has less chances of producing the fatal side effect of steven johnson syndrome. The quality of drug matters.

Dear Safraz,
By now, you know that your sister needs these medicines for whole life so that she will not be attacked by the disease again. How to make her take regularly after overcoming the problem? You need to discuss with her, your parents, if she is married with her husband and her friends. If nothing works out, you can request the doctor for long acting injectables. Oleanz is available as 2-4 weekly long acting injectable.

Dear Sir Many mental health disorders needs a long term treatment and for some the treatment may need to continuing for life. Its just like any other illness like high blood pressure where you need to continue medicines for a long term. The right way to treatment is not to stop or alter the medicines without consultating her psychiatrist. I am not aware of the details of her illness but I will recommend that you see her psychiatrist for a detailed discussion so that she and the family is aware o...more

Dear lybrate-user,
Are you taking both Celith and Epitic as mood stabilizers for bipolar disorder?
If so, please take both. Sometimes lithium carbonate helps well to control mania but not depression. Lamotrigine controls depression well.

Neck PainThis is cervical pain (neck pain) and that's the reason the pain radiates until the shoulder blades. If you keep ice that would help and along side you can do hot water fermentation. You shall use cervical collar which would help you to reduce the radiating pain ie. Due to the nerve compression.
Cervical spondylosis – chronic condition with radiating pain
As your rightly said you have to go for traction and also you can do IFT. Please consult the near by therapist for quick reli...more

Dear lybrate-user. Thanks for the question. Lamez 100 mg Tablet is used in the treatment of seizures and mania. Take this medicine in the dose and duration as advised by your doctor. Swallow it as a whole. Do not chew, crush or break it. Lamez 100 mg Tablet may be taken with or without food, but it is better to take it at a fixed time. Talk to your psychiatrist for more. Take care.

In the realm of sexual relations, Incest is one of the longing social taboos. In order to curb this social taboo, many governments have introduced law banning incest. Basically, this is a sexual relationship between those who are blood-related, which is also called as Consanguineous relationship. This is also called as Genetic Sexual Attraction (GSA) which can be between siblings, half siblings, donor children, adoptees, biological mother and father, nephew and so on. This is a social evil, and ...more