Posted by SLS on December 30, 2008, at 8:41:06
In reply to Re: Wellbutrin SR and XL - Use After Bariatric Surgery, posted by SLS on December 27, 2008, at 10:38:55
Happily, it seems that my friend has managed to recapture an antidepressant response using the Wellbutrin IR preparation. It took several weeks spent in a deteriorated state before her system returned to the state of remission accomplished previously by taking Wellbutrin XL.
I recommended to her that she take Wellbutrin IR every 8 hours to more closely approximate the steady blood levels produced by Wellbutrin XL. If it doesn't affect her sleep adversely, this strategy should prevent spikes and troughs in mental energy and mitigate the elevated seizure potential that Wellbutrin IR is known to produce. She takes 450mg: 150mg q8.
What a relief.
- Scott
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