Posted by franco neuro on April 2, 2005, at 13:58:14
In reply to Re: Please help me if you've taken Neurontin........ » franco neuro, posted by ed_uk on April 2, 2005, at 12:24:58
Hi again,
> Although Wellbutrin is a dopamine reupatke inhibitor, it is only a very weak dopamine reuptake inhibitor, its effects on dopamine reuptake might not even be clinically significant. Wellbutrin is a very mysterious drug, very little is known about its mechanism of action.
This is very true. Most of what I've learned about it I read here: www.preskorn.com
Right now it feels more like a muscle relaxant than anything else. I really need to try a stimulant and see if it wipes me out. I think I could learn a lot from that. And receptor profiling of my brain has pretty much become my life's ambition. (Right now it's about the only thing I have any ambition for.) I'd like to try a true dopamine reuptake inhibitor but there aren't any. Unless I can get my hands on some Survector. Unfortunately, because of the few knuckleheads that end up abusing them, the bureaucrats won't let us have any. Damn knuckleheads! Damn bureaucrats! (My apologies to any knuckleheads/bureaucrats that may be reading this post. But you know it's true.) Maybe I'll just down a couple of pots of black coffee. :-)
I'll have to talk to my doc about adding a stimulant. If I get a boost from it than I'd know that my DA receptors indeed are working, but that Wellbutrin just isn't enough of a DRI to stimulate them.
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