Posted by Dinah on October 28, 2012, at 10:17:10
Judging from my experience with it, it should only be prescribed with the greatest of caution, to people who don't have a predisposition to anxiety and agitation.
I still think the pdoc from h*ll was grossly negligent in not only prescribing those things, but in assuming my poor response merely meant I wasn't taking enough of them. I do think my brain was damaged from his increasing doses. I finally put my foot down when he wanted to exceed the maximum.
My next pdoc, the best one I've ever had - as low a bar as that is, saw on our first appointment that a mood stabilizer was essential. And was not at all reluctant to drop anything to do with NE, and SSRI's as well. My current pdoc, as much as he scares me personally, has told me that he would never even consider putting me back on SSRI's, never mind Wellbutrin, Effexor, nortriptyline, etc.
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