Posted by Kath on August 13, 2000, at 9:55:01
In reply to diminishing results of wellbutrin, posted by amyw on August 12, 2000, at 20:47:25
Welcome
Welcome Amy,I have a 16 year old son, who has a different set of problems, but I know how hard it is as parents, when our kids are hurting.
Sounds like you're getting some good advice here. Please keep us 'posted'. I think it's really, really important that your son be really open with his doctor about what's happening & how he's feeling. I have found pharmacists also extremely helful & supportive.I'm taking Celexa & initially I feld WONDERFUL - spaced out to no end, but wow, great!! That levelled off & I though it wasn't working anymore. When I told my doc he said that alot of his patients experience that initially with anti-dep meds. He said that on Celexa the comment he hears most from patients when the drug has 'kicked in' (after 2 months or so) is that they feel like the used to feel, before they were depressed. The way I describe it for me is "I feel what feels like normal." My main symptom was intense anxiety all the time. If you imagine a radio with static all the time (the static for me, being anxiety) it's like my med took away the static. I still feel the whole range of emotions - happy, sad, angry, devastated, relaxed etc. but I'm on a basic "even keel". I understand from lots of sources that it really does TAKE TIME for the meds to do their work. It's very important to give them a chance. And that's SOOO HARD if you're feeling awful, especially if you get an initial "kickstart". I WANTED to feel like I'd felt those first few days. I would still LOVE to feel like that, but know that it doesn't work like that.
Best of luck. Keep in touch. Kath
> I am writing about my 18 year old son who sufffers from severe depression and lots of physical symptoms such as severe cravings for food. At times he has had binges, but has never thrown up. Because of his exercise level, he is actually still thin.
> He had a terrible year, was on homebound for a while, finally went back to school and graduated, but still felt awful. He had been on prozac and it was not helping much. Risperdal was added and that didn't help either.
> He got frustrated and went off all meds os he could start something new.
> Two weeks ago, he was prescribed wellbutrin SR 300 mgs and it was a miracle drug for him. He had more energy and could focus and felt so much better. Now two weeks has gone by and he feels like the effects are going away and he is really depressed about feeling so bad again. He had also been on adderall with his prozac and that stimulating effect also disappeared, but then it was after only 4 days.
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> Has anyone had this experience? I am really worrried about him. Three days ago, he was ready to start college and was so confident and now he is scared it has stopped working.
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> How could somehting seem so miraculous and then wear off? He did have a hepaptitis shot for school and wondered if that could have played a part, but no one seems to think so.
> PLEASE HELP with any experiences you have had.
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> I also suffer from depression and anxiety and OCD, but prozac 40 mgs works for me.
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