Posted by Leighwit on May 21, 2001, at 12:13:08
In reply to Mixing wellbutrin/help! » Leighwit, posted by CraigF on May 17, 2001, at 7:36:40
Craig,
Thanks for your comments about Serzone and WB combined. I'm not seeing any positive effects from the Serzone addition yet, maybe even some negative (mental confusion) so I think I'll probably move to something else next week at my next Pdoc appt.
I think I agree with your Pdoc about the WB not causing a deterioration in your depression symptoms. It's more likely to cause irritability. It's not likely at all to worsen depression symptoms, like melancholy. 75 mg. isn't much WB anyway. I took only 10 mg (1/2 tab) of Celexa at bedtime, along with 150 mg. of Wellbutrin 2x/day, and did quite well, were it not for the weight gain (not an acceptable side effect for a diabetic.) Do you know why your Pdoc is preferring to up the Celexa instead of upping the WB dosage? Just curious.
Thanks again for sharing the Serzone info. I took it alone for a couple of months a few years ago, and didn't accomplish anything. I'm not seeing much hope for it as an augmenter to WB, either (in my case, that is.)
Leighwit
> A couple of things...
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> I added WB to Serzone some time back to return some vitality I felt was missing with just Serzone. The initial effects were good, energizing, etc., but I eventually became aggressive, frustrated, and couldn't concentrate. Come to find out, a metabolite of Serzone that can cause anger is aggrevated by WB.
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> I'm curious to see how you fare on this
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> Also, more recently, I tried taking WB 75x2 per day so I can go down on my Celexa dose (50 mg). It made me cry a lot and feel hopeless (the same reaction I had years ago when I added it to Prozac!!)
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> I told my doctor about the reaction and she took the easy way out:
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> "It's your worsening depression and not anything to do with WB...increase you Celexa"
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> But I see a pattern, due to my past experience with WB and Prozac.
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> Can anyone relate to this SSRI/WB phenomenon? does it going away after several days? I don't want to make myself feel any worse than I have to.
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> Thanks
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