[vacantangel]

i'm barely eating a morsel these days. i think it's the wellbutrin. anybody else had this happen. how long did it last. i've been on it for manybe 7 wks or so. have to force myself to eat and somedays i dont even do that.

[sqrlb8]

Haven't had a non eating symptom myself, so can't help much there. It's something you want to give as much attention to as needed in order to maintain a diet that won't make you crazy. So to speak. What I mean is that if your blood sugar is unstable due to erratic eating, that condition alone can trigger psychotic like states. That's not something you need just now. Sleeping and eating have to happen, or the whole train derails. I hope you can start to feel better soon Angelgirl. take care.

I feel that way sometimes when I am depressed.

[vacantangel]

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Haven't had a non eating symptom myself, so can't help much there. It's something you want to give as much attention to as needed in order to maintain a diet that won't make you crazy. So to speak. What I mean is that if your blood sugar is unstable due to erratic eating, that condition alone can trigger psychotic like states. That's not something you need just now. Sleeping and eating have to happen, or the whole train derails. I hope you can start to feel better soon Angelgirl. take care.

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Thanks for your reply. Sleeping is another thing that has been erratic for me. In the last few weeks there have been several times where I haven't gone to bed at night at all and then staying awake for maybe 2 or 3 days. It doesn't always occur to me that I need to sleep, I don't realize that the day is over and another will soon begin. I know that probably sounds kinda weird.

As far as my eating is concerned, the last time I went to my GP, he was concerned about my not eating properly (although it is very much worse now) and he had dracular waiting for me in the very next room to take a blood test. Major phobia. I go back to see him on the 10th, so I'll get the results then. I'm assuming there couldn't be anything too alarming or he probably would've called me to come in sooner. I have to check in with him once a month so he can see how I'm doing. It seems I'm always going through a very rough patch at the time I go see him, so he usually sees me at my worst. Maybe that's a good thing?

Anyway, I lost 9 lbs during Christmas in a 1 1/2 week period between appts seeing him. I was shocked, since I hadn't even been trying.

What happens if you go into a psychotic state?

[vacantangel]

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I feel that way sometimes when I am depressed.

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I'm very much an emotional eater. Usually I'll eat more unless I'm taking up residence in the abyss. Then I don't eat. What I'm experiencing now is total lack of hunger since starting Wellbutrin.

[sqrlb8]

As a bipolar person especially, I need to pay very close attention to all the things that contribute to or detract from a stable brain chemistry. Nutrition is a big deal. If a mood swinger never embraces a moderate level of vigilance over their nutrition, no amount of medication or therapy has a chance of alleviating those swings. Or at least there would always be the compromise of diminished benefit to any success. I don't know if low blood sugar would induce an abiding psychotic state so to speak, but i am aware that it can induce psychotic symptoms like paranoia, auditory and visual hallucinations. Clicking on tabs on this site would be more informative about psychosis than anything I could probably say. LOL.

Ultimately, the only success I've had with living with this, BP stuff, had primarily to do with accepting that to a degree, this is the deal. My brain is like this. Some things aren't a good idea for me to get involved in which others may do routinely. Much of the life I created for myself prior to dx, was altogether unsustainable. As desperately as I believed that I needed to preserve every precious aspect of it, most of it was bad for me. I wouldn't have given up any of it, but my breakdown was sufficient in severity and duration to insure that I was spared the agony of choosing which treasure to jettison next. By the time I looked up it was all gone. LOL.

I'm rambling again, aargh, and I apologize. In parting, for some reason I want to say, each worst case scenario that I ever anticipated as being the thing I would likely not survive turned out to be the best thing that ever happened. Irony is the packaging the truth comes in.

I should probably finish my coffee before I do this, huh?

[vacantangel]

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As a bipolar person especially, I need to pay very close attention to all the things that contribute to or detract from a stable brain chemistry. Nutrition is a big deal. If a mood swinger never embraces a moderate level of vigilance over their nutrition, no amount of medication or therapy has a chance of alleviating those swings. Or at least there would always be the compromise of diminished benefit to any success. I don't know if low blood sugar would induce an abiding psychotic state so to speak, but i am aware that it can induce psychotic symptoms like paranoia, auditory and visual hallucinations. Clicking on tabs on this site would be more informative about psychosis than anything I could probably say. LOL.

Ultimately, the only success I've had with living with this, BP stuff, had primarily to do with accepting that to a degree, this is the deal. My brain is like this. Some things aren't a good idea for me to get involved in which others may do routinely. Much of the life I created for myself prior to dx, was altogether unsustainable. As desperately as I believed that I needed to preserve every precious aspect of it, most of it was bad for me. I wouldn't have given up any of it, but my breakdown was sufficient in severity and duration to insure that I was spared the agony of choosing which treasure to jettison next. By the time I looked up it was all gone. LOL.

I'm rambling again, aargh, and I apologize. In parting, for some reason I want to say, each worst case scenario that I ever anticipated as being the thing I would likely not survive turned out to be the best thing that ever happened. Irony is the packaging the truth comes in.

I should probably finish my coffee before I do this, huh?

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You really impress me. Even though in the beginning I fought my dx, it didn't take me long to accept it because there simply is no choice, it is what it is and no amount of wishful thinking is going to make it go away, no matter how hard I try. Old habits die hard and self-discipline has never been one of my strong suits. Eating healthy has always been difficult for me and I know my GP is concerned about that and that is why he sic'd Dracula on me last month to draw my blood. He knows I have a huge phobia to blood tests and I'm sure that's why he had her hiding in the wings, ready to catch her prey with the element of surprise. Included in the tests was to check if my body is lacking any nourishments. If can't imagine that the test will come back all that great but otoh, it can't be frightening either since he hasn't called me. I see him this Friday and I will find out then what the actual results are.

Since that blood test, my eating habits have deteriotated immencely. I attribute Wellbutrin to be the cause because it happened at the same time. Most days I have to force myself to eat anything at all and some days I don't even do that much. My GP is not aware of that, since it all happened after my last appt with him. I see him once monthly so he can keep close tabs on me. I know he is greatly concerned about me and hospitalization has been threatened several times. To me, that is the worst thing that could happen to me. Even when I was extremely suicidal, I would never go the hospital. I just don't want to be an inmate and the mere possibility of being locked up, scares the hell out of me. Well, looks like I too have digressed. Do you think this is a BP trait and how about rambling, I do both so easily and also quick change of topics. These usually drive people crazy? jk

Anyway, back to topic at hand, I wasn't aware that nutrition played much of a role in our mental health. I guess I'll have to give it more serious attention but as I said, part of it, or least all of it now, is due to my Wellbutrin. Since I need to lose weight, I've been seeing this as a bonus. Thanks for the info. Very much appreciated. Hope you enjoyed your coffee, I am drinking my Diet Pepsi, my current addiction.

Oh, I almost forgot, I've been dealing with paranoia since 2001.

Online i looked up wellbutrim and found that one of the side effects is appetite loss. Just thought I'd let ya know.

[vacantangel]

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Online i looked up wellbutrim and found that one of the side effects is appetite loss. Just thought I'd let ya know.

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thanks estherville for taking the time to do that for me. you're so sweet.

[vacantangel]

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Online i looked up wellbutrim and found that one of the side effects is appetite loss. Just thought I'd let ya know.

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thanks estherville for taking the time to do that for me. you're so sweet.

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Ooops!!! Guess it has also affected my eyesight. Gave you an entirely different name. My apologies.