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What are your experiences with lithium target levels in the maintenance of bipolar 2 disorder?

Is there a preference towards the lower end of lithium levels or are mid range levels typically required? Have people also had success with “subtherapeutic” levels, especially with older patients or impaired renal function?
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Psychiatry · Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
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I prefer maintenance lithium levels at the 0.7-0.8 range, because I wish to provide a more rigorous test of lithium's ability to prevent recurrence in each BPII patient.

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