Posted by Jackie Black on August 3, 2001, at 9:59:46
In reply to Re: Wellbutrin, Quit Smoking, Weight Gain, Prozac Help, posted by pellmell on August 3, 2001, at 8:11:30
> I overeat compulsively when I'm feeling especially anxious, and Wellbutrin made me so anxious I was stuffing my face constantly. More than once I left my friends for a few minutes without much explanation just to walk to a convenience store for a candy bar! Fortunately for me this didn't continue long enough to cause significant weight gain.
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> So, anyway, do you think Wellbutrin might be making you anxious? If it is, anxiogenic start-up side-effects of Prozac might be making it even worse (though both times I was on the stuff I lost weight in the first month). Or maybe there's just some effect of Wellbutrin that makes certain people want to eat all the time? I don't know. I've never tried to quit smoking myself (I only smoke two packs a /week/ anyway), but I've heard stories of people switching from compulsive cancer-stick sucking to compulsive carbohydrate ingesting as they try to quit. One of them said something about needing something in her mouth to replace the cigarette.
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> Anyway, I might try going off the Wellbutrin completely and seeing how that goes. Just a question: why'd your pdoc take you off of Prozac in the first place? As far as I know fluoxetine and bupropion don't pull each others' hair.
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> Good luck,
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> -pmThanks pellmell - I think I might just go off Wellbutrin and see what happens. I started taking it to help me quit smoking and it really worked for me! It allowed me to stop thinking about wanting a cigarette every moment of every day. I was smoking at least 2 packs a day and I had smoked for 25 years -- so I really needed to quit. BUT - this weight gain is so devestating I just want to cry, and hide from everyone, and now I'm starting to think smoking wasn't as bad as gaining all this weight!
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