Posted by Else on July 4, 2001, at 16:15:40
In reply to is it the effexor or wellbutrin?, posted by Roxk on July 3, 2001, at 11:03:35
> First let me say thanks for the help i've received so far I don't know where else to turn.
> I stopped effexor xr at 150mg about 6 days ago. I had three days of no meds and i was a wreck. That all too familar dizzy fuzzy, electric feeling but i also had the most horrible nightmares! I had strange dreams while on effexor but none like when i stopped. I started wellbutrin three days after being off effexor and i almost instantly felt sick and like i wanted to bite someone's head off. My doc didn't do any gradual dosing it was staight to 150mg 2xday. I've felt sick a couple hours after taking each dose to the point of throwing up. I haven't taken the wellbutrin this morning and i am not irritated but still feeling a little sick. Are these symptoms withdrawal from the effexor or are they from the wellbutrin. Honestly i think i feel better without any of this in my system.I had withdrawal effects from effexor for over a month but it was mostly muscle pain and migraines. I've been on Wellbutrin on and off many times (right now I am on). I first used it as Zyban to effectively quit smoking. The second time I got on it it made me hypomanic, I didn't sleep for several days and practically wrote a novel in a week-end. My thoughts were racing and I was positively ecstatic (BTW I am not diagnosed as bipolar). The second time, I also went completely insane but this time I almost became psychotically depressed, spent several days in my room, crying, not sleeping, my mind racing but thinking about how worthless I and my whole life was. I wanted to crawl to the nearest clinic and beg some doctor for sleeping pills but I didn't think I would make it. Other times I gave up because the shakiness was too much for me. Finally I did start at a low dose (100mg a day), went up to 200mg for a few weeks then 300mg, all along taking clonazepam and temazepam to controls the shakes and the insomnia. I'm not sure if the insanity I went through is actually hypomania or rather, related to some form of seizure activity but it was pretty heavy anyway. Now Wellbutrin actually helps me sleep and I have no side effects but I do recommend asking your doctor for some benzodiazepines to make it through the first week.
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