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Re: Bipolars on Wellbutrin? (Mania inducement?) » katia

Posted by Doug Saving The Team on April 3, 2004, at 15:24:20

In reply to Re: Bipolars on Wellbutrin? (Mania inducement?) » NG, posted by katia on March 11, 2004, at 15:46:38

Kat,

Please explain why good weather in Cal would cause problems for you? I am on WB and Trileptal and have found that going out and exercising is a good way to calm and get some release.

Thanks,
Doug Saving The Team


> > 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.
>
> Hi NG,
> Your tendencies above are like mine. I can get pretty wild though - hard energy to quell - hypomanic stuff I guess. I just started at 37.5mg of Wellbutrin for a week now. I also like to take it slowly with meds (plus 300mg of Trileptal) And I think it's caused me to go a bit hypomanic. It could be the weather though. In Cal. we've had summer-like weather and that always does me in - the spring fever. I'm trying to "tame" myself these next few days. I won't go out and see if it dies down. If it doesn't I'll probably have to go off of WB. It's my first go with ADs in addition to a mood stabilizer. I've had ADs alone prior to my BP dx and went hypo for sure.
>
> If your irritability persists, I'd reconsider staying on TWO activating meds.
>
> I may quit the WB and go back to Lamictal. It's just that I got the rash which was scary. But I guess I could try it again if this hypo *hit continues.
> keep in touch.
> Katia
> BPII
> 33 yr. old female - if you're interested. :-)
>
> > 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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