Posted by tessellated on March 1, 2006, at 11:58:20
In reply to Re: Does Wellbutrin have methamphetamine properties?, posted by Islomania on February 28, 2006, at 22:47:32
No offense islo but you speak with forked tounge.
Wellbutrin has been known to cause a false positive test for amphetamines: google this stuff peeps...it takes 5 secs.
Wellbutrin is thought to effect the reuptake of serotonin, norephinephine, and dopamine.
In ways it is a distant cousine to tenuate the weight loss stim. With a similar though different mechanism, and is much less potent.It's thought to be helpful for nicotine wdrawl and other stims because it mimics some the similar activity (though vastly lower and less abusable) but in a more controlled way.
One can test positive for amphetamines from the metabolism of other substances. The chemical is not in the original pill, your body can turn it into something similar which then a test can pick up in error. Tell your doc and they can retest to filter for wellbutrin. And tests can also be flat wrong.
Using wellbutrin with another stimulant would do a coulple things: one it would likely increase the stimulant properties as it does with coffee, and two it would also increase the probability of having a seizure. Not fun.
Just Had
> Wrong. Wrong. Wrong, folks. Quite the opposite of Wellbutrin having any meth-like properties, some preliminary studies have shown that Wellbutrin actually has properties that moderately reduce physiological cravings for both methamphetamine and cocaine (as well as that other stimulant, nicotine, for which Wellbutrin is cross-marketed as Zyban to treat.)
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> Also, for patients prescribed Wellutrin who also abuse methamphetamine, the Wellbutrin actually reduces the quality or intensity of the high from methamphetamine.
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> > If this is true, is this necessarily a good thing guys? And if true, how in the heck does a methamphetamine - type ingredients get put into an antidepressant - but more importantly why? To give depressed persons a kinda like 'high'?
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