Posted by garnet71 on April 6, 2009, at 8:14:10
In reply to My life so far...what should I do?, posted by Dima on April 4, 2009, at 13:42:26
Hi Dima,
To respond to your post above asking me to comment about Buspar, I wanted to come back and read your situation. There is something odd about your situation (not you!); either your course of treatment or that you left something out of your story. It doesn't make sense to me-your course of treatment in response to your experience.
I wanted to try Buspirone because it acts more specificually on 5HT1A receptor and a bit of positive effects on dopamine, rather than SSRIs which seem to negatively affect my dopamine levels and it somehow acts on other 5H transmitters, whereas buspirone leaves some of them alone, so to speak.
It's odd that you started Wellbutrin if you have some psychotic syptoms of paranioa, because you normally would not want to increase your dopamine levels if that's the case. Really, I don't know much about this stuff, or whether your symtpoms are attributed to anxiety or a mild psychosis, but if your syptoms are anxiety/depression, it seems you should have stayed on the Lexapro longer than 3 days and if symtpoms like tiredness, sexual dysfunction persisted, tried the WB after a few weeks on Lexapro first, but not switched from Lexapro to WB like that.
Buspirone seems to work better for anxiety 'maintenance' and a bit on depression-those who don't have extreme anxiety attacks or a severe depression, though some say it doesn't work at all. It doesn't give me negative side effects at all, but some said (read other related posts on this page) it caused them weight gain. More than 2 doctors have told me Buspirone has the least side effects, and it's in a drug class of its own. I am still having soem anxiety episodes whie on it, so I'm debating moving on to something else.
But its normal to feel very tired while your body is getting used to Lexapro, so 3 days isn't much of a trial; WB normally is tried for the 4-6 weeks too, but i found after taking it several times in the past, I can gauge its effectiveness in just a couple week s(for me) becaues I've taken it several times.
In your case, you don't seem like you can tolerate WB at all, and it seems very strange to me your doctor chose that drug w/your symptoms and only 3 days after a Lexapro trial. Care to tell us more about your situation? Maybe there is somethign important left out. And you said *you* are thinking your depression may be a result of irrational fears, but what did your doctor say?
Let us know how it goes and sorry I couldn't be more helpful!
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