Posted by terra miller on September 1, 2001, at 20:46:43
In reply to Re: shelli » terra miller, posted by shelliR on September 1, 2001, at 14:17:53
sorry for misspelling your name previously. :-)
> Okay, so it helps you with irritability and tiredness. How about your depression. This this your base AD or is this an adjunct for you?
this is the only AD i take. originally i wasn't presenting as very depressed because i still had lots of energy, so it was mostly the anxiety. but occasionally i would dive if therapy got rough and i'd hit some suicidal thinking, so that's why i went on an AD. went through lots of them trying to find one that worked. long story.... so when i was first using the wellbutrin it served to get me up and get me going and moving and more productive when personal life was hard, but i didn't notice any AD effect. about 3 months into it i all of a sudden noticed a calming inside and it's been that way ever since. i continue to be motivated, but the "rev" you get when first starting wellbutrin has subsided some. (that is: i no longer feel the need to clean my entire house the first thing in the morning. ha!)
> Wow, that is a really strange side effect. I've read on the board that other ADs cause cold extremities, but I didn't think about body temperature dropping.yes, it is different than just getting cold fingernails. i take my temperature and it has actually readjusted. my normal temperature is about 96.4 now i think. i don't really notice it much. when it dives under 96 i notice but that doesn't last more than a few hours anymore and serves to remind me that i've got medication inside working for me, so it's actually an encouraging event for me.
> I think I could (maybe) do the four pill at home thing, but I know I would either forget to bring pills, or forget to take them if I am out. I will be raising my SR to 300 starting Monday to see if I can handle it.
i still have days when i stare at my bottle and cannot remember if and when i took my last dose, because i took it out of the bottle instead of the pill container. someday i'll learn! but it's kind of unbelievable that i don't think i have messed it up yet... that is, i don't think i've missed or doubled up on a dose this whole time of taking the wellbutrin in this routine. i find that a bit amazing as i am normally quite forgetful.
i hope the increase goes well for you. my best wishes. -terra
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