Posted by Vincent_QC on January 17, 2009, at 8:50:06
In reply to Re: No Motivation/Energy - What is wrong with me? » Phillipa, posted by Garnet71 on January 14, 2009, at 11:50:39
> Hi Phillipa, you are always so kind to respond. I haven't been taking Paxil,but the website, PaxilProgress, has great ancidontal information.
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> My last meds were WEllbutrin and Zoloft. Zoloft for anxiety and Wellbutrin for the constant fatigue I feel from Zoloft. They made me worse this time. Wellbutrin worked great in the past, but now does nothing. I keep reading about others' experiences with the generic types, and when I took it int he past, it was the brand. I have never had a bad experience from generic medication before.
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> My body has energy, but my mind is so unmotivated. It takes everything out of me to do anything and I don't know why. I am now tapering off the Zoloft and Wellbutrin--why should I take them if they do nothing but give me side effects?
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> I'm in school. I don't do any of my homework until the very last minute becaue I jsut can't get myself to do anything unless I absolutely have to.
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> I wish I knew what was wrong with me. I'm so angry about his. Thanks so much for askng.Hi Garnet71,
Well...you're not alone in the same boat. Last fall, I withdraw from Lexapro (Second try also) because I was always tired as hell, more than before I begin it, and the Wellbutrin, who was supposed to improve my fatigue and make me more energic fail to do anything this time...as well as the Ritalin...it's like I was on a placebo or something else...The first time I take the Wellbutrin-Xr, it was the true thing...not the generic one...last fall it was the generic version...anyway...I also had the Zoloft (Generic version) for a second try last winter and it did nothing for my anxiety and my social phobia...it was worse for my energy level and my weight also...I don't know a lot of things about the difference between generics and patented drugs...but I know that second tries is often a fail, in my case...What is your diagnostic exactly? Did you feel a lack of motivation and energy since a lot of time?...Normally, are you someone who like to move or just to sit and watch TV? ...
I'm like you since more than 1 1/2 years...mean that I don't have any energy to do anything...In fact, I have to lie in my bed several hours at daytime to be able to do something in the evening with my friends...It's a mental fatigue more than physical...even if on my last drug trail (Parnate) it was more physical fatigue...
I have to save my little (to non existent) energy level for the night. I have tons of things to do but I have no energy so I always say to myself, I will do this and this tomorrow...Before becoming completely invalid and unable to do anything of my life, I was studying at the university...I was not able to do my big works and respect the date of delivery of the works, so I had to walk to my doctor office and ask for a medical paper to have additional time to make my works...it was crazy as hell.
Now it's worse...each time I try a new drug...it's like my problems increased to a new level...I feel a lot like I will never be able to return to my "normal" energy level...Mentally, I fell like my cognitives faculties are completly gone...I was the type of guy who was able to do 30 things at the same time and keep the same focus and level of success...now I can only do one thing at the time and it take me severals times to be able to achieve it...(like writing messages here...)...
What make me feeling worse in that whole process it's the fact that i'm not a depressive person, so the lack of energy is not suppose to affect me like someone who have a major depression as a main problem... My main problem is "untreat" social anxiety and social phobia with too much comorbidities (General anxiety, panic disorder with agoraphobia, and depression because of my untreat state...). Also, I feel like the more time it will take before I will be able to make something good again of my life, and the lesser chances I have to healing or to achieve a complete remission and a return to my normal energy level...
Anyway, I hope that you will find the good solution soon and that the withdraw of the Zoloft and Wellbutrin is not too much hard on you... Keep the faith and I wish you're feeling ok ;-)
Take care!
Vince ;-)
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