Posted by Eric1973 on January 13, 2002, at 20:25:08
I've been taking Wellbutrin-SR for over a year and it helps me maintain a somewhat normal baseline mood (I'm dysthymic-- chronic low-level depression).
I starting feeling a depression "on top of" the dysthymia back in October. I went on Celexa and very quickly, for the first time in my life I actually understood what it meant to feel "normal" -- not an understatement at all. Well the Celexa pooped out after about 2 months. :-/
I then started on Effexor as 75mg/day. That didn't seem to be doing much after about two weeks, so my doc increased it to 112.5mg/day.
Two weeks later, on Dec 20th, I saw my doc again. The Effexor still wan't doing anything for me and I was starting to feel worse (of course that could have been due to the upcoming holidays -- plus my "mourning" the loss of my Celexa happiness), my doc increased my Effexor dosage 112.5mg/day to 150mg/day.
HOWEVER [here's the important part, drum roll please...]
That same day my doc filled a new Rx for Wellbutrin-SR (at the same dosage I've been at for a long time).
I went and had it filled at my HMO pharmacy. (My company changed to a new health plan and this was the first time I'd used that pharmacy.)
*They gave me a generic for Wellbutrin. When I saw what they'd given me, I paused for a minute (I didn't even know there was a generic) but said to myself, "well, it's an HMO and they're saving money and they wouldn't give this to me if it weren't the same thing."
Well, since then, in the last two week especially I have TOTALLY crashed: suicidal thoughts, lots of crying, low energy, zero productivity at work, you name it.
I wonder if basically what happened is that, as far as my brain is concerned, I quit the "real" Wellbutrin-SR cold turkey?
If so, wouldn't that explain this sudden dive?
Has anyone had this same experience? Do you know of anything out there written on this subject????
My new HMO is also making me change psychiatrits right now (BAD timing) so I am not going to have much confidence in my new one until I've been with him a while.
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