Posted by g_g_g_unit on April 13, 2008, at 22:18:11
In reply to Re: anyone ever had greater success on a generic?, posted by Dopamine123 on April 13, 2008, at 22:00:19
> >mild sporadic headaches, total sexual numbing, restless leg syndrome and memory loss
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> Sounds like your experiencing dopamine depletion due to the SSRI. I had similar symptoms to you when I was taking an SSRI.
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> Sexual dysfunction, restless legs and some of the memory problems may be due to reduced dopamine (an oversimplification obviously but that is the general idea). You might want to augment the SSRI with a drug that increases dopamine, like wellbutrin, ritalin, adderall etc. Otherwise those symptoms probably won't resolve on their own.
>i was considering adding wellbutrin to reverse the sexual sfx anyway. the thing is, though, i have a lot of engrained (and usually unfounded) 'baggage' that i've brought to the issue of taking anti-depressants, one strain of which is a fear that augmenting drugs will just cause a pile-up of sfx. if i'm feeling dumb enough on lexapro, will adding wellbutrin just compound the problem? or is its action on dopamine relatively independent from what the lexapro's doing?
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