Posted by matthhhh on October 17, 2003, at 16:15:24
This new doc ive been seeing put me on 100mg wellbutrin for ocd/anxiety about 1.5 months ago. My OCD symptoms have returned around the same period that I started taking wellbutrin, suggesting that it has aggravated these symptoms. However, i seem more motivated and stimulated by this med.
A few weeks ago i upped my dose to 3 50 mg tabs day from 100. The wellbutrin is causing me to shake and my body to vibrate. My doc said it was probably the clonazapam withdrawal effects. However, I thought about it further, and I was on clonazapam about a month before the wellbutrin and there were several days in which I did not take any of the med at all. During these days off I did not have any shakes which makes me believe that it is the wellbutrin that is causing the agitation. But my doc still wants me too stay on 3 tabs/ day wellbutrin, even though its causing me to shake!
He also said he would refuse to schedule future apointments if I went to my family doctor for a prescription, which i did before my last prescription. I thought that was extreme and rude because:
I thought that he could only prescribe me meds on the apointments we had set up.
I informed him that I had got the prescription.
It was an emergency because I was out of the med and eliminating it that quickly would have caused withdrawal. I was also concerned about the shaking.
I also asked him if i could take tryptophan which I started just before my last apt with him. He said that would just complicate things. And since ive started the tryptophan its been WONDERFUL for me
Anyway, I think im going to tell this doc to take a hike, what do u think.
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