Posted by jacquie on April 13, 2001, at 19:32:49
In reply to flat mood on Celexa and Wellbutrin, posted by bonnie_ann on April 12, 2001, at 11:22:36
> I originally was on 30mg Celexa and having Sexual problems so I added Wellbutrin 75mg 2x day.
> and decreased the Celexa to 20mg. Lately I have been feeling like I really want to cry. My mood seems to be not happy not angry just there- I'm not feeling positive anymore. It's also scaring me- Is this depression? I don't really know what it feels like. What should I do?
> Increase the Celexa again and stop the Wellbutrin
> or Increase the Wellbutrin?
> Decrease the Celexa?
> Thanks,
> BonnieHi Bonnie,
I saw your post and it made me think of when I was on
Celexa and when I got off it. I started at 10mg
and then to 20mg and then to 40. I had to get off it
because I got rare side effects. So, slowly I got
off it. Strangely I was feeling almost euphoric at
20mg, very strange, then when I was down to 10mg and
then the final zip, 0 ...I crashed. Cried and cried.
Just for no apparent reason. My therapist ( a newer
one thought I was manic depressive, which I'm not, but
he is not a med kinda guy-so he was a little stunned
by the extreme up and then the extreme down-can't blame him) Okay, so
anyway, I started reading and then I asked the
pharmacist and she only said what I had read and
thought all along, was that your body adjusted to
all that serotonin and now you are weaning it off and that
this was a classic side effect. I think your body may
need to adjust to the lower dosage. I am a gardener
and not a doctor, so my mere experience may not
be the same you are going through, but it sure sounds like
it. Eventually , I adjusted and was fine.
I take Wellbutrin now actually and was thinking of
asking the doc to augment with celexa, just a little
like 10mg because Celexa had some great benefits
for me. It was the first time I had taken anything really
for my depression and although it did make me
a bit flat (lowered activity in alpha and beta waves
I think is what it does...not 100% sure, would
explain flatness) I had little social anxiety,
no obsessive thinking, and just felt a bit better,
but at 40 mg it started to get weird for me. I am
very sensitive to meds.Well, if this wasn't a bit of babble. Sorry about that.
Maybe you can ask your doc to explain what
happens when you lower a brain chemical like
serotonin. The power of knowledge is sometimes
unfair when it is not shared or neglected to be
shared. Give a ask maybe? Good luck to you.Jacquie
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