Wellbutrin, Do I love you or hate you?

Ceara1010 · May 30, 2016, 12:57 AM

I'm on Wellbutrin for the second time in my life, and have never had any problems with it. But your pdoc is right. Wait and make sure these aren't just withdrawal symptoms. Frankly, I'm surprised she isn't weaning you off first before putting you on something new. Not only could it be withdrawal symptoms, it could also be that the two drugs are interacting with each other.

--Ceara1010

kecanoe · May 30, 2016, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Marilyn2016

Well, it's been about a month off Paxil, and a month or more on Wellbutrin. My mood is significantly improved. I'm nowhere near any kind of mania. YAY! However, the shakes, shivers, night terrors, and fear from all of that has kept me down to about 4 hours of sleep a night. I take zolpidem to keep me asleep, but it doesn't work for a full night, not ever. I always wake up so freaked out from some vivid nightmare, I'm way to scared to sleep again. I'm really pro-Wellbutrin for depressive symptoms, it makes all the SNRI/SSRI pills look like one massive waste of time. On the other hand, these physical symptoms, and the nightmares are enough to make me stop. I still have a couple of weeks until I see the pdoc again, but I'm really confused.

There is another issue, with having to occasionally take pain medicine for my spinal disorder, but...I'm not touching a single drug with the side effects I've had on this, no way! I wonder if there is anything similar to Wellbutrin? I wish I could stay on it, but this I'm worried about mania, only because of the low hours of sleep. I still eat like a human garbage disposal, but the sleep is slowly drifting away. So, next time at the pdoc, it's back to the drawing board! By the way, thanks to everyone who posted, I reread the comments, and it gives me enough courage to NOT change the meds on my own. I'm still going to wait for my pdoc to do anything. Ugh. Finding the right meds can be so frustrating. lol. Have a stable day everyone!!

My pdoc added cyclobenzaprine for sleep. I take Welbutrin, buspar and nortriptylene and was on those plus Abilify when I started the cyclobenzaprine. It helped some. Also hydroxyzine has helped me sleep.

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