Posted by Waki on August 16, 2004, at 0:47:09
In reply to Re: Prozac Wellbutrin??? question WAKI » WAKI, posted by alesta on August 14, 2004, at 5:40:49
Amy,
Unfortunatly my experience with Wellbutrin has not had any diminishing anxiety. In other words, I have the same increased anxiety from week 1 to now week 20 of Wellbutrin.
Mind you, I have two types of anxiety. I have a cronic anxiety that I always feel anxious no matter what I am doing. I then have/had the anxiety that I preceived I could not control. The anxiety therapy I had nearly eliminated anxiety I preceived as "lack of control".
I can now relieve emense weight (anxiety) off my mind after I do the best I can, plan for contigencys and control what my body does when I stress. IE breathing, heart rate etc....
Short term I am compromising the side effect anxiety for the benifit of energy.
Although, I am also in a very fortunate person and in an extremely unique position. You see I am an "experimental rat" in a depression treatment research center program.
In a program like mine, I have at least 6 times faster response then going to a regular P-doc.
In other words, let's say i have anxiety and i share it with the center. I can try a med for a week. I can keep trying different meds every week instead of waiting 6 weeks until my next visit.
My point is, I have accepted the extra anxiety, but am working on not only anxiety but pleasure, drive, and concentration with my doctors.
You may encounter anxiety and at a rate of seeing your p-doc every 6 weeks it can take you years to medically treat it.
I think your best bet is to reestablish your priorities each time you encounter a result or side effect.
If you take wellbutrin and it increases your anxiety, then compare anxiety to the positive atributes.
If the positive attributes (results) are more important then the side effects of anxiety. You can change your priorities to work on anxiety as your next objective.
It's optimistic to think we will all be "normal" one day. However I personally believe an oxymoron phrase called "hopelessly optimistic".
I believe my future looks positive but inversly I will also suffer from some side effect the rest of my life.My task will be to keep working on my condition until I can safely accept certain side effects.
Good luck.
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