Posted by faith97229 on January 28, 2004, at 5:18:57
i have ocd and anxiety panic disorder, depression and have successfully been on paxil 40mg for 5 years, although the sexual side effects are getting a little old,(my poor husband)!i started welbutrin today. it is 3:16 am and i am wide awake i took it at 1pm! i had heard that welbutrin was good for quitting smoking, and increasing your sex drive so i asked my g.p. about it and she prescribed me to lower myself to 20mg paxil for a week and then quit and start 150mg of welbutrin 1x a day while weaning myself off the paxil. my problem is that after reading all of the information i could find on this board about welbutrin, i see it does not help with anxiety for the most part. should i really be discontinuing my paxil?i do not want to go through the horrible side effects of quitting paxil if it can be helped.at one point i switched from paxil to prozac without doing any weaning, i just quit paxil and started prozac with no major side effects like those pleasant shocking brain sensations! i did not prefer prozac and went back on paxil the same way, i was under the impression that i could do the same with the paxil to welbutrin, until i realized that they are for differant things and are not closely related like paxil and prozac.if i take these two together will it help the sexual side effects? while still giving me the benefits of the anxiety-panic control of paxil.what are your experiences with this? the welbutrin would also be great for me if it does induce weight loss and some extra energy sure would be welcome. there seems to be plusses to both. do these two work good together? i think i need to see a psychiatrist as my g.p seems not to know to much about the in and outs of each drug, but i would really appreciate anyone elses view points and experiences. thanks! tanya
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