Posted by atmlady on January 27, 2008, at 11:30:55
In reply to Re: Trivastal and Ixel - Questions and Comments » atmlady, posted by bleauberry on January 26, 2008, at 19:24:58
Hi, Bleauberry! I too have the runny nose with ixel! Funny, huh? That's too bad you couldn't continue with it; I know how you feel - I have the same relationship with Lexapro.
I was frightened to take the Trivastal, too. I took my first dose at night because I was afraid of the nausea and sleepiness that some others had reported. I had taken my 450mg of wellbutrin that morning, so I was also afraid of what the the interaction might be between the two drugs. I took the dose with a slice of bread and some cheese and a glass of water about 9:30pm. Laid in the bed reading, trying to relax, but hyper-alert to any twitch, itch, pain, or ghostly movement out of the corner of my eye. Was afraid I'd get super sleepy really fast, kept waiting to feel sleepy but never did. Kept waiting to feel nausea but never did. Kept waiting to feel confused, irritable, crazy, weepy - whatever, but I never did. Still, I was afraid. Told my 14 year old daughter to sleep with me that night - thinking if I had a seizure or started sleepwalking or something strange, she would at least be around to help call 911. So yeah, I was totally anxious and paranoid about taking the mystery pills. I stayed up for many hours, just thinking about stuff and things, quite alert, but finally calming down, eventually fell asleep about 3. Up at 5:30 feeling fine.
In the morning I thought, man, this stuff must be sugar pills - it must not be working because I don't feel any different. But I kept plugging at it - I was running out of wellbutrin and did not want to buy more, but the ixel had not yet arrived. So I decided to wean off the wellbutrin and replace it with trivastal and if my mystery pills were genuine, not sugar pills, then I should be able to switch over with few problems - that was my hypothesis. And it worked. That day I took 300mg of wb, the next 150mg and the next zero. And increased the trivastal from 50, to 100 to 150 per day. And no withdrawal symptoms. So that's what told me that the trivastal does indeed work on dopamine. If it was a sugar pill I'd have been sick from dropping the wellbutrin so abruptly. During that first week of Trivastal, I took at least one nap a day, and I mean really great naps. I never slept well on wellbutrin, and felt like I was making up a lot of lost sleep. I started dreaming again, good dreams. In one dream I heard my mother (dead 10 years) talking to me as if she were right there. In another my boyfriend made love to me and it seemed real! So, good dreams. Which I think might be because my unconscious and well as my conscious is beginning to experience pleasure and joy. Mind you, it's not like I'm bounding around in a joyful mania. In fact, the amount of pleasure and joy I'm experiencing on trivastal is probably still less than a normal person feels, but it's more than I've felt in a while. And really, for an anxious person like me who (really, I swear) does not like to take pills, it's just perfect. I prefer mild over wild, because I feel a little more in control.
Also, I kinda feel like it's working better as time goes by. Like maybe the blood levels had to be at a certain level for a certain period before it really began it's good works. Maybe my dopamine receptors needed to learn what to do with the new chemicals floating around. Then again, it may be the addition of ixel that seems to make it feel like it's working better.
Anyway, Bleauberry, I wouldn't be too afraid of taking that first dose. If you are paranoid like me about how it might affect you, take it in the morning on your day off, so you can putter around
and won't lay in bed worrying about whether your heart is still beating correctly, like I did! It does not make me sleepy at all. But if it makes yo sleepy you can always take a nap if it's your day off.Hope this helps you take the leap!
ATMlady
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