advice: lexapro and wellbutrin SR - Personality Disorder Message Board

fiddlestick5 · 10-02-2003, 11:00 PM

i was perscribed lexapro and wellbutrin SR and was wondering if i should be worried about long term side effects?
i took zyprexa a while back and ended up with a leg twitch that hasn't completely gone away.. so i stopped..
would marijuana mixed with either of these be a potentialy dangerous combination (not driving or anyting, just chilling in my home)?

any information would be nice.. anything. even if you dunno for sure i'd still like to hear your input..

staceyy · 10-03-2003, 12:14 PM

All psyc Meds have potental side affect some go away when I took wellbutrin it made me cry every day all day long I Quickly go off it now I take celexa which is a newer med than wellbutrin. I have no side effects from it and I have been taking it for about two years but it took about 6 different anti deppressans befor I found a good one if one dosen't work try one untill it works we are like ginnin pigs no med works the same with every one allso when ever you use any kine of street drug it affects the meds you are on. Hope this helps.
Blessings
Stacey

fiddlestick5 · 10-03-2003, 02:15 PM

thanks for your reply, that's mostly what my dad sais.. i'm just really really paranoid that my artistic abillities will suffer from use of such drugs..

i took the lexapro last night and it really messed me up.. my pupils were the size of saucers and i was even red eyed.. i was jittery and i had also been forgetting things really quickly.. i just didn't feel right.. i was all wide eyed and i just looked like i was tripping... i smoked some pot to calm myself and it only made things worse.. it's like i was on mushrooms w/ out the hallucinations... it was horribal.. still feeling the effects.. damn lexapro..

i'm wondering.. is this a common side effect? if so... does it go away? or is this a sign that maybe lexapro and I are not compatable?.. can it damage my brain?
Anyone?

mistyone · 10-03-2003, 05:49 PM

i too a lexapro for 1 week. i had to get the f off of it as it made mde feel like i had ants in my pants. i couldnt stop moving around and very retlessness. that is a bad side effect from it. all anti-depressants are not the same try another one. zoloft made me wanna **** all the time, prozac put weight on me, lexapro made me feel like ants in my pants, now i am on efforxor which seemed to even me out so so i am gonna stick with that one-mistyone

fiddlestick5 · 10-06-2003, 01:56 AM

i took effexor a few months ago to deal w/ concussion/depression induced stress and whatnot.. i stopped taking it because i thought it worked TOO well.. my dad told me his doctor perscribed it to deal w/ depression but wouldn't take it because he swore off anphetimines or something long ago (ex speed addict) because as he puts it, is a legal version of speed... do you know if it actualy does any form of brain damage like actual speed? or is it just a really effective anti depressent w/ little to no side effects? because i might even consider going back on it..
i'm paranoid about damageing my brain.. dunwanna lose my drawing skills

oh, and i'm still feeling the messed up effects of lexapro.. i posted what happened to me on another forum and a bunch of people replied w/ their story's (some even used the mushrooms analogy).. it turns out i (probably) had an extremely rare reaction known as Serotonin Syndrome (i guess you could say i felt like i had an ant hill in my pants)...
which is more common among ecstacy users than poor innocent *******s like me that just want a little bit of sunshine in their life... seriously.. i've been acting like a meth addict for the past few days..

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