Posted by sheilac on May 18, 2012, at 13:49:41
In reply to Re: Wellbutrin yuk - old meds... » bleauberry, posted by SLS on May 18, 2012, at 10:19:55
I'm sorry if I didn't answer all your previous questions. But here are how things stand.
Yes, the depression was there before anything else.
The Lithium and Trileptal took care of the mania and and I guess I was left with depression.
My pdoc threw Wellbutrin into the mix and even at just 37.5mg Wellbutrin made me feel severely anxious. It was awful.
My pdoc doesn't have a lot of time to see patients anymore (1 or 2 days a week) because she is retiring.
Today went to see an old pdoc (and he chewed me out for stopping seeing him - I never really liked him, he was the one that kept me manic on 40mg of Geodon for a month and didn't see a problem with it, he felt I was the problem for not sticking with the Geodon).
Anyway, old pdoc said my thinking that Trileptal and Lithium are what is causing the depression is wrong. These meds are keeping me stable, it's just that the depression hasn't been taken care of. When I went to see him I was convinced that Trileptal was making me depressed.
Maybe he's right. Maybe I am stable, just depressed. So he suggested adding Abilify to the Trileptal and Lithium, hoping that the Abilify would help with the depression.
Any thoughts on that?
Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't just cut the Wellbutrin into quarters and try again. Or just throw Adderall at the depression (which only works at first).
What do you think? I need energy, motivation and to get out of this awful depression.
My sister says dump everything except Klonopin and use Tramadol!
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