Posted by MedStudentSouth on July 27, 2004, at 21:02:01
Hello all... Having found many postings concerning the differences between lexapro and wellbutrin I'd like to give an account of my own experiences. While having been moderately depressed last fall I started taking 300mg of wellbutrin. After the 2nd week or so, I found myself feeling paranoia, experiencing obsessive thoughts, and thinking acutely of suicide. Yes... Wellbutrin definitely had a negative effect on my mood. B/C of the fact that it was also prescribed to me to treat mild symptoms of ADD, I decided to stick with it (I was in the process of completing my first year of medical school). After having 3 months of hell, I decided to lower my wellbutrin dose to 150mg and to add on 20mg of celexa a day. My negative symptoms went away and I began to sleep better and to come out of my depression. Once I had to study for finals, however, I upped the wellbutrin back to 300 and switching to 10mg lexapro (basically same compound as celexa). I've been mostly great. I think that the brain definitely needs a good bit of time to get adjusted to wellbutrin, esp if one suffers from GAD.
I'm currently starting a relationship. This has me on edge, I must say... Sometimes the anxiety is horrible.. but I've upped my lex to 20 mg/day. This takes the edge off. I'm definitely medicated though. Is there anyone out there who's taking both medications as well? It seems to be a rather common cocktail.
MedStudentSouth
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