Posted by Ponder on April 26, 2002, at 11:43:53
In reply to Wellbutrin for the long haul?, posted by ellen on October 23, 1999, at 18:03:47
Couldn't resist joining this thread. I, too, am a professional writer with concerns about intellectual functioning and word-find abilities.
I have been on Wellbutrin for decades (literally). It never occurred to me that WB might have cognitive side-effects. What I find frustrating is the difficulty of ascribing such effects. After all, my bipolar depression makes me dumb as a stump. Some people believe that ECT leaves you with some permanent impairment (maybe). Then there are the drugs.
I hate the thought of tampering with a combination of treatments that seem to be working at the time, but this discussion on WB is causing me to reconsider. My other treatments (Lamictal and VNS) are activating enough that DCing the WB may not be too bad an idea.
Does anyone else wonder about drug side-effects vs. depression as the cause of cognitive difficulties? I mean, not just during the depression, but a kind of ongoing alteration in brain function from the illness?
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