Posted by amyw on August 12, 2000, at 20:47:25
I am writing about my 18 year old son who sufffers from severe depression and lots of physical symptoms such as severe cravings for food. At times he has had binges, but has never thrown up. Because of his exercise level, he is actually still thin.
He had a terrible year, was on homebound for a while, finally went back to school and graduated, but still felt awful. He had been on prozac and it was not helping much. Risperdal was added and that didn't help either.
He got frustrated and went off all meds os he could start something new.
Two weeks ago, he was prescribed wellbutrin SR 300 mgs and it was a miracle drug for him. He had more energy and could focus and felt so much better. Now two weeks has gone by and he feels like the effects are going away and he is really depressed about feeling so bad again. He had also been on adderall with his prozac and that stimulating effect also disappeared, but then it was after only 4 days.Has anyone had this experience? I am really worrried about him. Three days ago, he was ready to start college and was so confident and now he is scared it has stopped working.
How could somehting seem so miraculous and then wear off? He did have a hepaptitis shot for school and wondered if that could have played a part, but no one seems to think so.
PLEASE HELP with any experiences you have had.I also suffer from depression and anxiety and OCD, but prozac 40 mgs works for me.
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