Posted by KayeBaby on April 19, 2006, at 3:07:17
In reply to Still sluggish and unproductive -- anything help?, posted by Racer on April 16, 2006, at 15:40:40
Racer
Wellbutrin is one of the few AD's that help me.
I still take it from time to time.150 mg work well BUT 300 made me rather despondant. Too much Dex, I have found, does something similar. I just want to sit there and just cannot get myself in gear.
Did you take the Wellbutrin at 150 mgs for a time and how did it effect you at that level?
Meds seem to effect me differently from the norm.
It makes it so hard to figure out what will help.Luck to us all.
Kaye> Ugh. Even taking Dexedrine is not helping with getting me moving. I'm at the point where I am ready to stop meds again, because I just don't seem to be functioning very well.
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> For the record, I currently take Wellbutrin XL 300mg, Dexedrine 5mg bid, naproxen 220mg bid, and am ready to sleep half the day. And I'm sleeping pretty darn well at night, too. (And I am falling asleep about an hour and a half after taking the Dexedrine.)
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> The Wellbutrin doesn't alleviate my depression, but it does improve it. The Dexedrine does seem to help boost my mood a bit, and certainly reduces both anxiety and monkey brain. I can't tell if the naproxen is doing much -- still having a fair amount of joint pain.
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> I get into fidget fits, where I will sit with both legs going at once, just kinda bouncing in place. I also get a bit beyond my normal irritablity sometimes, although not to the point it frightens me. (I'm getting irritable about things I normally get irritated by, just more than I think is quite my normal level.) But if I try to get up and actually DO anything, I just get hit with a wave of malaise that slows me down to a crawl, and generally can't keep going. I'm also having trouble with feeling overfull after eating, often for hours. (As in eating a slice of pizza for lunch at 2PM, and still feeling uncomfortably full around 8PM.) I think the stomach thing is a big part of what's bothering me, really -- imagine trying to clean the bathroom right after a large meal? Doesn't sound so good to me...
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> And, there's just that plain old lethargy that I have gotten on pretty much all antidepressants. Maybe I just don't have the energy to be aware I'm depressed?
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> Can anyone offer any insight or advice? I've brought this up a little with my T and pdoc, which is largely why I'm trying the stimulants, but it's hard to get across just how distressing this really is. (And it's hard to get across that I'm not necessarily looking for the anorexic hyperactivity, too. If that's the only way I can get energy, I'm ready to go off meds and get back to it at this point. I hate this feeling of being half-awake.)
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> Thanks.
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