Posted by Lonely on September 24, 2005, at 0:18:52
In reply to Re: I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired!, posted by mellymel_d on September 22, 2005, at 18:03:41
It might just take more time or maybe this isn't the right med or med cocktail for you.
My hubby was on Wellbutrin and Lamictal together for about 8 months. He just got off Wellbutrin about two weeks ago (tapered) because I suspected it made him more hypomanicy. Antidepressants can do that in susceptible folks. Definitely in looking back at the last 8 years I would say that antidepressants alone sent him on all kinds of frenzied mood swings. The manicy part (anger and agitation) seems to cause bigger and bigger "crashes" into extreme depression. The p-doc said Wellbutrin doesn't have many of those antidepressant qualities but it had enough in my hubby to create at least some increased maniciness.
Interestingly, Wellbutrin alone also sent my hubby into severe depression 3 years ago after about 1 week of treatment. He was at at the time(about three years ago) on the regular kind (not time release) that you take 3 times a day. The time release that he took this year(1 every 12 hours - generic)that he took w/Lamictal was better but in his case no Wellbutrin is best of all. His p-doc is taking him up to 300 mgs. a day on Lamictal alone. The cost is making the increase very slow - he's at 250 a day now w/no problems as far as we can tell.
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