Posted by reluctant on January 3, 2004, at 20:59:08
In reply to Lexapro effects/adding Wellbutrin?, posted by qtr-horse girl on January 3, 2004, at 17:33:37
Hi 1/4 -
too soon to give you much detail, but I had been on wellbutrin & zoloft for a couple of months (the wellbutrin alone for several months previous)and the zoloft made me really sleepy and slow and, well, kinda dumb. My pdoc has switched the zoloft to lexapro and kept the wellbutrin - it has only been a few days but so far so good. getting out of bed is hard (not painful - just takes a while to get around to it) but once I'm up I feel good. better than I've felt for a while, actually. fyi, the ssri was added to the wellbutrin because although wellbutrin alone increased my energy level & got me up and around, my head was still a pretty dark place & I was having a lot of cyclical negative thoughts. zoloft made the energy vanish and didn't do much else.
wellbutrin is often added to ssri's to counter their side effects (like sexual side effects & sleepiness - though adjusting the time of day that you take it might also help). I wrote elsewhere on this board about Bedtime Tea (from Yogi Tea co.) which has some pretty powerfull herbs in it and has been a godsend for me - when I'm stressed, I don't sleep, regardless of medication. bedtime tea does the trick, for me. presumably if you were getting good sleep at night it would help with your tiredness the rest of the time.
best of luck to you. there are lots of people on this board who have lengthy experience with these medications and who can give you more input - but remember, it works differently for everyone, and the same drug can have totaly opposite effects on different people . . .
-r.
poster:reluctant
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