I feel wierd~ - Depression Message Board

sonic · 08-15-2004, 03:04 PM

Hi all~~ Just to let you know,,,Ive been taking wellbutrin for a few months now..(200 mgr). I havent noticed any change in my moods. anywho today I felt really "detached" I couldnt make a simple decision,,I just wanted to go to sleep!

Also im very restless,,I tried to sit through a movie,,I must have gotten up 10 times!

I want to go to my dr. & tell him im really sad,,& i feel horrid. He doesnt believe in taking Anti-depresants, & im sure he will lecture me as usual.

I dont know what to tell him. I havent been this depresed in a long time, I dont know what to ask for? Ativan?, Lexepro, Paxil?
~~~~~~~~~~ I was on Celexa, but i stopped b/c it killed my sex drive. Ive posted about that before.
But right now,,I dont even CARE about sex..I just want to feel human~
Thanks for listening....It helps..lol

enoch · 08-15-2004, 03:41 PM

sounds like some depresonalization going on with it being side effect of what your taking - the doctor works for you - fire him if you have too - let him know your not going to stay on something when hes not inside you head to feel the feel and all he goes by is what the drug companies give him to read about their products (if he even bothers to read) and most doctors spend little time reading because they don't have time - (to busy giving selves fat wallets) - if this med is not working tell him you want change and quick and if your next drug dont work tell him you want another change - and if he is right then you will tell him so but if hes wrong you will also tell him so.. and right now he's not helping you - and your left to trying to help yourself and you depressed and down and not dead yet and this is how it will be with you - your going to keep trying to find something that at least if nothing else keeps you even and doesn't add to your miseries as they are. my own experience is that I have down loaded stuff from good sources on internet and stuff still did not get read - and when you try to tell doctors they pooh pooh it either because their ego will not allow them to gain education from patient or because they themselves have read something just like we all have read something and it clicks with our own outlook - but when that becomes the case it dont mean the doctor is anymore right than you the patient - the bottom line is he works for you - not you for him. Cause him some stress next time you talk to him - make him feel unpleasant when your in his or her face - disrupt his or her day - sad fact this get quicker results than being polite in many cases.

volcomrxy21 · 08-15-2004, 04:47 PM

i was taking wellbutrin for about a year (300 mg a day) and I began having the same exact symptoms as you are describing, so i stopped taking it after telling my psychiatrist. Then about 2 months later, i began taking it again and suffered a grand mal seizure while at a concert after being on for another couple weeks.
Please do yourself a favor and stop taking it if you continue having these feelings....
these medications are powerful (as i found out the hard way) and 'not feeling right' is definitely not a good sign.
Zoloft seemed to help relieve the gloom for a while, but it made me really tired all the time so i stopped that as well.
Best of luck to you
~Sarah

sonic · 08-15-2004, 05:51 PM

Thanks so much 4 the replys! it really cheered me up.

Is there any A/D that DOESENT cause "de-personalization"? this side effect happened when i was on Celexa as well~
Are anti-anxiety meds the SAME as anti-depresants? Ive always wondered that..

You are so right about dr.'s..they DONT know everything,,in fact Most times i go,,,im the one that suggests the Kind of meds!
He had to look up "Wellbutrin " in the PDR..he didnt even know what doseage to give me..(thats not the first time)

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Just thinking of seeing him is causing me stress~~

enoch · 08-16-2004, 12:34 AM

remeron worked well for me when others did not - but could only take for 5 months - messed up my cholesterol and I gained 30 lbs - I lost all the weight once off (plus 6 to grow on) but cholesterol is still in crapper probably from seroquel - which also worked good to keep me even in the day - but now I have to say good bye to it too - romper stomper vomper vu - whats next? I have open eyes in anticipation of the joys yet to be discovered at the wrong end of a bad dose.. so if your cholesterol or weight is not an issue both of these worked well for me (remeron and seroquel ) except they would cause me to die many years earlier from a heart attack than I have planned. I have a fussy tolerance - zoloft sent me to the hospital and paxil gave me adverse reactions - doxepin gave me gerd and acid reflux and topamax depersonalized me and trazadone worked for six weeks then a major panic attack - amtriptyline and perphenazine gave me tardive to where I was biting my tongue in my sleep and waking up swallowing blood - and lorazapam lost interest is me after 6 years - klonopin has worked very well for me - and I like it alot - the search continues for something to keep me even with out wacking something else out..