Posted by Christ_empowered on February 15, 2015, at 13:58:56
Less than 1 month in. I'm on the old school, SR Wellbutrin...just 100 x 2/day. I feel so much better! I'm smoking a bit less already, I'm more rational about my food intake, I can concentrate a little bit better, and...
...and its everything I liked about low dose Ritalin, without all the bad stuff.
So, I'm wondering...what gives? Like, my previous shrink (its a community health clinic, so docs come and go) was trying to get me on amoxapine, stat. I resisted because I'm scared of amoxapine, and she put me on Prozac. She also recommended a low dose of PRN Haldol (!). I don't get it...
...so, can you base a diagnosis on response to meds? I do well on Abilify (30mgs) plus I need a mood stabilizer. In my case, I'm on 1200 Trileptal and just 100 Lamictal. Now the Wellbutrin SR has recently been added, and I'm doing much, much better, or at least I feel considerably improved. To be fair, I wonder if maybe I need wellbutrin because of the meds (especially the 2 anticonvulsants).
If the AAP is the main medication I absolutely must have, and the anticonvulsants are secondary, I didn't do well on Depakote, Trileptal alone didn't control the agitation...is that schizoaffective? And if Wellbutrin SR is a huge help, is that depression? Negative symptoms? Counteracting the ill effects of other meds?
My PRN meds are low dose Neurontin and low dose Risperdal.
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