Anyone not take antidepressants? - Page 3

BrianKosh · 09-24-2004, 05:36 AM

hey, I asked my psychiatrist about mood stabilizers, technically we refer to the part that contols the mania and/or the drugs that soften the ups and downs, but his comment was they are all mood stabilizers.. Anti-depressant stabilizes the depressive part and lithium and such that controls the mania part is a stabilizer.. makes sense, sense depression and mania are not a normal state of the mind and body..
It is true, what works for some fails for others, been there done that.. this is why the doctor or all drs. do not just have one pill as in one pill fits all.. no offense intended by my comment.
which brings me to I am off welbutrin, and on Lamictal alone, and am doing better than mixing the two together.. kinda weird, I pulled myself off the Welbutrin and then the doctor agreed that it was a good idea.... uhh, in a way that is a bit scary.... if he didn't think it was a good idea to be on the welburtrin, why did he leave me on it?

*music23* · 09-24-2004, 02:59 PM

Among some other stuff I am on Lamictal, a mood stabilizer that also has antidepressant qualities. That was mentioned.
I didn't see anyone mention Anafranil (generic is called clomipramine). I am also on that. It, like Lamictal, is a mood stabilizer with antidepressant qualities. Years ago, when I started it, I was in a depressive phase. 48 hours later, it felt like a cloud had lifted. Yet it caused me no mania. Worth checking out.
Kristina

mjss · 09-24-2004, 09:23 PM

Lamictal works great for me. I'm also on Wellbutrin. BrianKosh- why did you feel you needed to go off the Wellbutrin? Do you feel better without it? I'm very interested because sometimes it's hard for me to tell what is working and what should be changed. Thanks!

mudhound · 09-25-2004, 08:10 AM

the wife was just taken off the anti D. I wonder if this will cause her to be depressed? I sure hope not.

BrianKosh · 09-25-2004, 07:10 PM

I keep typing something out and then erasing it, I am not sure if the outcome of what i did was good or bad for me.. And although I did start again... I was on two AD's. First I pulled one off, weened myself off, but was off 99.9% of it for about 4 weeks.. (consumming of the pill itself) I then stopped the other one, knowing I was running out I reduced the dosage slowly.. I actually did a cold turkey for 2 days, but ... every have a really bad case of the flu, and I don't mean head cold.. but really bad stomach case, where you turn white and get faint.. the minute I to the AD again, at a lower dose, I was fine... ANYWAY..

I was off the second one for a little over 3 weeks... I felt gretaer than great, I hadn't felt THAT good for the last 2/3rds of my life.. This is why I start questioning stuff... I know, full well A LOT of people have to take meds.. When my Ulcerative colitis is really active, I am not going to be the one to experiment at THAT point in time for an alternative.. But ever since I started taking newer AD meds, I start to wonder, I even doubt my own judgement when I am on them.. AND THERE IS fine print that drs are not telling you about the med. because it only happens to 1% but what if you're that 1%...

ANYWAY.. is it a good idea to pull off, I do it as experimentation... I could have felt better because of the lesser dosage, or it was the wearing off, or it was a fluke and there was still enough in my system to leave me happy....
( I WAS VERY HAPPY for those 3 weeks..) BUT... possibly by guilt or restarting the med.... one monday morning, I paid for something... SEVERE depression.. ( so bad I cheated w/ something just for the feeling of the side effects.. weird, my dr knew I did THAT once before, but said noting about it..) So now I am back on one of the two meds.. I wish I could tell u something that would be more positive, but I can only give u a recent experience.. I don't know.. maybe the meds cause depression, maybe they actually do good. (makes one wonder 5 years after the fda approves a med they then say it's not as safe as they were made to believe..but then the base that one 1% of the population whose drs may have been quacks..) Maybe the chemicals in our bodies don't play well with others or we just plain lack something and never know it.. the med I am off was wellbutrin the one i am back on is Lamictal.. (why did I actually restart...i got freebies to take,... it umm.. it keeps my restless leg issue quiet.. as expensive as the drug is.. it's better than taking darvocets.. it doesn't have the buzz that the narcotic had, but it's not a narcotic is it... it ALSO still keeps the crying and weird thoughts of a gun, away.. I guess I should have added that too.. seems a bit more important vs. cost....)

good luck..

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Originally Posted by mudhound

the wife was just taken off the anti D. I wonder if this will cause her to be depressed? I sure hope not.