Posted by MB on August 8, 2001, at 13:27:15
In reply to Re: Can you counter Wellbutrin anorexia?, posted by adamie on August 8, 2001, at 7:27:13
> hi. paxil is the med i tried earlier. it was quite bad for me and i felt pretty much like i did without meds except less caring towards everything. i did have some weight gain on it but i just cant take paxil evr again. i wish that amazinf effect from being one week on it lasted.
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> one week on paxil and i was starting to feel good! it didn't last and me was kind of like the typical zombie.You know...I remember you saying this now. I got so excited about my Paxil suggestion that I forgot that the whole point of the Wellbutrin was to switch off of Paxil. Sometimes I get so zealous about being helpful that I forget what the problem was in the first place!! < g > LOL
SSRIs do the same thing to me also...they help the first few days and then poop out and give me fatigue and I become, like you did, an emotionless zombie. Now, it seems, I'm super sensitive to them (I think from starting and stopping them so many times). The initial effects still assuage depression, but the stimulation is different...now it has an unpleasant manic/panic side to it. I don't know if this supersensitivity is from starting/stopping SSRIs so many times, or if it's because i no longer have alcohol to mitigate the initial speedy effects.
OK, one more parenthetical: I was just reading my babbling post before sending it, and noticed the "manic/panic" part and started laughing. does anyone remember a colored vegetable hair dye called "manic-panic?" A punk rock friend of mine used to use it to dye her hair green!! I think I'm having some kind of cyclothymic upswing because this seems very amusing to me.
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