Titration Ward (Reanna)
Monday, 18 October 2021 10:51![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mint_phalanxOur headspace has a better psychiatric system, so the psychiatric hospital here has a titration ward. It's for when a patient would have an easier time doing drug titration in the same place than making appointments all the time. (When your headmates have in-headspace mental disorders, you need some sort of system for treatment.)
Chaz is there for titration on lithium carbonate. It's (for him) 75mg twice every three days, but a blood test needs to be done in twelve hours before the next dose. He's taking 150mg total because relatives in his backstory have a history of lithium toxicity. (That's when there's too much lithium in your blood.) Once that's done, Chaz takes lithium twice a day, every day (probably 150mg twice a day.)
He's going to be fronting for two weeks without anyone but me fronting. (I'm the static host.) I have have to take medication three times a day, so he can simulate the second dose during titration. Like I said, after this, he might take 150mg twice a day. After that, he gets a blood test once a month. That can be simulated by our monthly appointments. (I take Concerta, which is a controlled substance in the U.S.)
In between those three days, Chaz gets psychoeducation on BP1 and other coping strategies.
Chaz is there for titration on lithium carbonate. It's (for him) 75mg twice every three days, but a blood test needs to be done in twelve hours before the next dose. He's taking 150mg total because relatives in his backstory have a history of lithium toxicity. (That's when there's too much lithium in your blood.) Once that's done, Chaz takes lithium twice a day, every day (probably 150mg twice a day.)
He's going to be fronting for two weeks without anyone but me fronting. (I'm the static host.) I have have to take medication three times a day, so he can simulate the second dose during titration. Like I said, after this, he might take 150mg twice a day. After that, he gets a blood test once a month. That can be simulated by our monthly appointments. (I take Concerta, which is a controlled substance in the U.S.)
In between those three days, Chaz gets psychoeducation on BP1 and other coping strategies.
