Posted by BLPBart on May 9, 2002, at 19:51:55
I am currently taking Wellbutrin SR 300 mg/day (depression) and 40 mg/day dexedrine SR (ADD). I had been combining the wellbutrin with prozac but I had SEs that I couldn't tolerate-muscle and joint pain, extreme fatigue, weight gain, you've all been there. Anyway, my doc still thinks I need to add some type of serotonin-type drug back into the mix since my moods are pretty unstable. I'm very reluctant, though after my prozac experience. I'm still trying to lose the weight I gained on it. He has mentioned Remeron but I understand it's supposed to be very sedating. He thinks that maybe since I reacted the way I did to an activating AD like prozac, that maybe I won't get sedated on Remeron. I don't know, that would just be experimenting. I've been trying to do some research on what type of drug I could take that I could tolerate. I was thinking zoloft, but then I read something that I thought was interesting. I believe it said that at low doses Remeron was sedating but that as you increase the dose the sedation SE often goes away. What I read even said that most people will gain weight initially, but that if they stick it out they'll become less sedated and lose the weight. They made the point in the article that most clinical studies don't last long enough to see this effect so it's never reported - only the sedation at the beginning. Does anyone have any first-hand experience with this?
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