Posted by terra miller on July 10, 2002, at 23:17:10
In reply to Re: Any Wellbutrin users out there? » terra miller, posted by Leighwit on July 10, 2002, at 15:14:54
hi.
use your prescription :-)
i also have xanax. it's perfect for me. when agitation gets too much, i only have to take .25mg once (ie: as needed) and i always think to myself, "why didn't i do this sooner?!" then the agitation calms way down for days; even weeks. i have therapy stuff and other ways of dealing with agitation that i don't think is necessarily wellbutrin induced (the panic-thing). i can go a month without taking a xanax. i can sometimes go three days in a row. but i've never needed it more often then that. it's been just the little bit that i've needed.
i've tried ativan, and it was too much benzo for me.
i tried zoloft and got suicidal. i could only tolerate prozac for a week. i refused to go on paxil or celexa because i didn't want to gain weight. i loved serzone, but i got these weird eye-lightning flashes that preventing me from reaching therapeutic doses. i tried buspar and trazadone, which both seemed to painfully effect my bladder instead... meds went to the wrong part of the brain, pdoc said.
so now i've got xanax and ambien (for sleep, as needed.) for me the agitation has gotten less and less. i also dropped all caffeine and sugar intake, which did wonders for leveling me out.
it took me several tries to get my xanax dose right. i learned that getting sleepy was a sign that i probably took too large of a dose. it made me a little sick to my stomach and disoriented, too i noticed. (i was originally prescribed .5mg.) now i don't get sick to my stomach, but sometimes i get tired which now to me is an indication that i've been too stressed out. if i don't get tired, i notice that i all of a sudden am calmer and thinking more clearly and making better decisions. that's when i know it was exactly what i needed, and that i didn't wait until i was completely stressed out before i took it (ie: waited too long)
i definitely recommend cutting out the caffeine if you haven't done that already. that's the very biggest thing for me to contribute to the agitation.
~terra
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