Posted by pellmell on June 19, 2004, at 13:47:50
In reply to Re: Wellbutrin/Zyban (Bupropion) warning, posted by Megs on June 15, 2004, at 15:43:10
> After reading that I was thinking about how my 14 year old sister is on 300mg/day of Wellbutrin XL. I've only been home for a little over a month, but since i've been home shes turned into a completly different person. She has so much anger now, and completly doesn't care about the consequences of her actions. She also has no sympathy for anyone. My family is going through a really bad divorce right now and so im sure that some of her new personality is because of this, but I miss the old her. She used to be happy, nice, and compassionate and it makes me sad to see her like this. Do you think that the Wellbutrin has anything to do with the change? Or is it just the situation she is in, and that shes 14? Any thoughts would be helpful. Thanks.
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A day or two after I worked up to 300 mg Wellbutrin, I was a total mess. I got terribly irritable and anxious -- I would snap at anyone in my family who provoked me even slightly. Of course it was all made worse by the fact that I'd just come home from school for the summer...
On the other hand, I was seriously driven and bursting with (anxious) energy, which was kind of nice... I'd always been really short on both of those things! I dug up and replanted our vegetable garden myself, etc.
The anxiety got the better of me, though. I'd always been pretty easy on my pdoc -- almost never calling between visits, etc. During my trial of WB, though, I must've called him four or five times! Eventually we switched me to something else, but that's another series of stories.
So anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if your sis's behavior had quite a lot to do with the Wellbutrin. It takes years of experience with these drugs to understand what they do to you even after you have a fairly good idea of who you are, so I imagine your sister isn't even sure what's going on with her.
-pm
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