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Posted by like water on February 27, 2002, at 11:47:41
Hi everyone,
One of my chief complaints was feeling run down and sleeping too much. My doctor first had me try prozac as it was an activating SSRI. Good news:no side effects, bad news: no good effects.
So after raising the dose and that not working we decided to try wellbutrin. Well for the first week it seemed to be helping as I wasn't as tired anymore. I guess this was only an initial "caffeine" like effect. Because lately I've found myself getting tired again.
What gives, isn't wellbutrin suppose to be one of the most activating AD's ever?
likewater
Posted by Rocket_Boy on February 27, 2002, at 20:46:08
In reply to Still Tired, posted by like water on February 27, 2002, at 11:47:41
Yeah I have the same problem and didnt get much effect from WB either. It slowly started to help a bit after about 3 months but not enough. I just got some "adrafinil" in today and am going to try that and maybe add an ssri if it hypes me up too bad.
Allen
> Hi everyone,
>
> One of my chief complaints was feeling run down and sleeping too much. My doctor first had me try prozac as it was an activating SSRI. Good news:no side effects, bad news: no good effects.
>
> So after raising the dose and that not working we decided to try wellbutrin. Well for the first week it seemed to be helping as I wasn't as tired anymore. I guess this was only an initial "caffeine" like effect. Because lately I've found myself getting tired again.
>
> What gives, isn't wellbutrin suppose to be one of the most activating AD's ever?
>
> likewater
Posted by BLPBart on February 27, 2002, at 22:11:05
In reply to Still Tired, posted by like water on February 27, 2002, at 11:47:41
> Hi everyone,
>
> One of my chief complaints was feeling run down and sleeping too much. My doctor first had me try prozac as it was an activating SSRI. Good news:no side effects, bad news: no good effects.
>
> So after raising the dose and that not working we decided to try wellbutrin. Well for the first week it seemed to be helping as I wasn't as tired anymore. I guess this was only an initial "caffeine" like effect. Because lately I've found myself getting tired again.
>
> What gives, isn't wellbutrin suppose to be one of the most activating AD's ever?
>
> likewater
When I'm depressed I get extremely lethargic and want to sleep all of the time. I started on prozac 20 mg/day which seemed to work well for a while. I also started an exercise program when I started the prozac and was eternally frustrated because I was working out a lot and gaining weight. My doc dropped the prozac to 10 mg/day and added 300 mg/day wellbutrin SR. This combination also worked well for a while and then suddenly around last November I just crashed. Suddenly I could hardly get out of bed in the morning and wanted to do nothing but sleep. When I told my doc he was surprised since prozac is supposed to be activating plus I was only taking 10 mg/day. I went off the prozac a couple of months ago and am feeling much better. Interestingly, I recently answered the survey on mindfixers.com which stated that I was probably suffering from a combination of depression and inattentive ADD. I took the survey results to my doc and he just added dexedrine spansules to the wellbutrin SR. I'm now up to 30 mg/day of the dex and I can't feel a thing yet. I guess what I'm trying to say is despite what the docs and the pharmacists think, a lot of people will be made lethargic on the SSRIs and some of us need an awful lot of stimulation to even feel normal.
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