Major depression, apathetic

That's what I've got. (Unless I'm bipolar without mania or have some ADD tossed in. Okaaaay).

Celexa was actually making me worse. I thought my "I don't give a crap" attitude was a good thing in some aspects, so I never gave it a second thought. Thought I actually needed a higher dose. I actually need a mood activator, not a mood settler.

This could be a scary couple of weeks. Going from a "yeah, OK, whatever" state to who knows what type of Energizer bunny state.

He said I might get snappy on the Wellbutrin XL 300 mg dose. I already get snappy, but because I get interrupted when I'm working (I shouldn't even be working at the times I'm getting interrupted in the first place). If the med helps me get my work done in a decent time frame, that will take away my biggest reason for getting irritated, so it could be a fair trade off. And Wellbutrin is used to treat ADD too.

I'm looking forward to seeing some positive changes for a change, hopefully enough of them to outweigh the possible side effects.

FWIW, I've had considerably less side effects on the Wellbutrin than on any other med I've been on. I think the worst side effect is that if I take it too late in the day, it is hard to sleep that night (which is actually a beneficial side effect when I take it in the morning as I'm supposed to.)

Also no sexual side effects for me, as advertised. I am now back to taking it in combination with other things that do have those side effects, unfortunately.

Of course everyone is different but here's hoping you can find some relief from side effects and some relief from depression with the Wellbutrin.

I took it at 7:00 a.m. I'm actually a little sleepy, but he said the Ambien he gave me could cause that at first. He gave me 2 weeks of Ambien 5 mg to get me back on a decent sleep schedule.

The only side effect (if that's what it even is already) is every once in a while I feel like a get a little jolt in my head, almost like a muscle twitch when your eyelid or finger moves on its own.

Whooo hoooo on the sexual side effects. I felt like I was shot up with Novocain when I was on Zoloft. I sure as heck don't want to deal with that again. (Not like it matters at the moment).

What's the half life on Celexa? I don't even know. Someone once told me it was 36 hours. (going off to look). Yep. That's what Google says, and that it takes 6-8 days to clear out of the system.

My husband was even more irritable on Wellbutrin than when he was depressed. However, it did pull him out of his rut. He stopped taking it after 2 months (and then slid back into the rut, as one would predict) because the side effects, for him, were that he felt physically agitated and had splitting headaches.

In retrospect, he says that he knows that it helped him, but if he knew then what he knows now, he would have gone back to the PDOC and asked for something else instead of the way he handled it.

i rode my headaches and upset stomach out. i wanted it to work so badly and it has.

shirley, the sexual stuff isn't like Celexa. the B.O.B. is doing just fine.

xoxox pat

Good to know Pat.