Posted by NG on March 10, 2004, at 21:38:35
In reply to Re: Bipolars on Wellbutrin? (Mania inducement?) » NG, posted by katia on March 1, 2004, at 14:16:37
Hey Katia,
It took me awhile to accept the diagnosis, and that was less than two years ago. I just started with pharmaceuticals in October--first the Lamictal and then, when I was still losing in a depression and anxiety sense, the Wellbutrin. So, I haven't tried anything else.
My tendencies are depressive and with bouts of irritablility (sp?)--the dysphoric kind--with some hypomania. And anxiety seems to be it's own thing.
After 6 weeks or more (I'm not great with time), I'm still on 150mg Wellbutrin. I believe in going slow with these things and would like to stay here if it works. I know it had some initial obvious effectiveness, because it stopped the depression.
I have had side effects of acid reflux (unless that was coincidence; my sister got that and she doesn't 'pop pills'.) And when the depression lessened, I was still very much dealing with anxiety--interesting to me because usually the two have been so closely tied that it was hard to separate one from the other. I have in my journal "depression does NOT equal anxiety" to mark this realization.
Wellbutrin may have contributed to a bit of agitation and anxiety, but not in a huge way. I mean, it was definitely there, I developed a new symptom of having my leg bounce up and down in an "I gotta move" kind of sense. But I've always been prone to aggitation and anxiety--including bodily jerks in the past couple of years--and this was no worse than that. My life situation has improved a little bit since then, and I'm doing better on the anxiety / agitation front.
cheers,
NG
(30yo guy living in the intermountain West, if your interested.)
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