Posted by brender on January 22, 2004, at 10:34:42
In reply to Re: Are these seizures? (Wellbutrin), posted by laurenn on January 22, 2004, at 0:45:33
Thanks so much for your feedback. It's pretty scary to have strange things happening in your brain, isn't it?
>>I have also lost most of my peripheral vision
>>as a direct reaction to ssri's. These meds are
>>dangerous for some people.That's terrible about your peripheral vision. How long ago was it that you quit paxil? Maybe it will come back over time. I had vision problems from tegretol that didn't fully resolve until I'd been off of it for months. I can't take ssri's (or at least I'm unwilling to) because of the risk of mania, but wellbutrin is not an ssri; it's in its own class of antidepressants (works on dopamine more than seratonin, from what I understand).
>>I hope your Dr. calls you back. Mine was
>>terrified when he finally figured out what
>>happened to me.He did phone me back after I paged his answering service. He seemed to go with my assessment that they were seizures without asking too many quesitons. He told me to stop taking the wellbutrin, and I guess we're going to try strattera next. I wish I knew if they were really seizures because I'd be willing to try wellbutrin at a lower dose if it was just a normal side effect that might go away over time, but seizures are dangerous, I imagine.
>> it's very intersesting that thousands of
>>people are reporting similar problems of Brain
>>freezing, or or zaps. Just food for thought.I think "brain zaps" is the phrase they use to describe one of the side effects of abruptly stopping effexor or paxil or one of the short-half-life ssris. I don't think this is what I was experiencing. I didn't have any kind of electric or shocking sensation, or any sudden sensation at all. It was more like repeated feelings of "coming-to", out of a zoned out state, and continuing the interrupted thought I was having before, but getting more disoriented and disjointed as it wore on.
>>Hope you do better off med . It might be worth
>>the money to schedule an appointment with a
>>good psychopharmacologist.Thanks. I'm still on other meds because I'm bipolar and if I went off of all of them, I'd be in even worse shape, but the symptoms I described went away after I stopped taking wellbutrin. I still have a headache 2 days later, though, which can't be a good sign. My doctor is a psychopharmacologist, and I believe he is very knowledgeable, but he's also very busy and rarely returns phone calls.
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