Side-effects of Welbutrin discontinuation?

I would like to try psychedelics, too. If you could please share what you know about clinical use? I have PTSD which is why I take antidepressants, but the side effects are not pleasant. I think one or two time use of psych may be the answer vs. lifetime of antidepressants that don't really work well and having side effects. Take care!

Linda, I don’t know anything about psychedelic use for depression, maybe someone else on here knows more.

In reply to Lynda. My therapist recommended exactly what you are talking about there are two known types that are in use at least in my neck of the woods. Be careful and do your research. My psychiatrist at this point is a no for me but that is me stay safe safe and hope you find something that works for you

The states of washington and oregon have legalized them.
Some cities (not state) have legslized them near boston.
There are many instutes of higher ed in US AND AROUND THE WORKD STUDYING THEM. Johns Hopkins is one.
Also read michael polins book. I think its calked How To Change Your Mind.
There are places in boston and nyc thst will treat with psychedelic but they are fone in s controled setting with trained therapists.
Sorry i am inable yo offer anything more specific
also check MATS website.

I’m on 3, 50 mg tablets of Wellbutrin every morning only.
I never tried getting off it cold turkey as it could send you to the hospital ER I was told. Never stop taking your medication without your doctor’s permission. You and the rest of us have no medical or psychiatric training and some of these meds have horrible consequences if you just quit.

I presently have Covid and been vaxed twice then with a booster.
Unvaccinated people have an 88% chance of being hospitalized so I’m happy to report that I have a moderate case and should be out of the woods in 90 days as far as being contagious.

Vaccinated people get Covid like anybody else because there is no cure for Covid. Pavloxid was given to me for 5 days only. Can’t be taken back to back.

I don’t really care who does or who doesn’t get vaccinated. It’s a personal choice. I’m glad now that ,as awful as it was, I survived it. My sister never got vaccinated because “it’s a hoax”.
She never got covid despite the fact that she traveled to Arizona with 3 other people and all vaccinated people got covid but not her. She never caught it so far. My State is considered a “hot spot “ and I’m high risk because of underlying health conditions.

So I decided that being in the 16% that were never admitted to a hospital with covid due to vaccination verses 88% of unvaccinated people I went with the 16%. My sister and I are close but the vaccine talks kept getting more heated so I have learned to accept her decision and hope that she never gets severe covid.

Vaccines have been politicized and I realize that so I backed off.
She doesn’t believe in my 88% figure. So be it. I however am a vaccine advocate because 8 out of 10 Americans have now been vaccinated and covid hospitalizations are still high but nowhere near what it once was when over a million Americans died from it.

Let me get off my soapbox but I only mentioned my view’s because you brought it up somewhat out of nowhere.

As far as quitting cold turkey because you feel better is never a good thing. Let your doctor wean you off slowly. Be safe.

You’re feeling better because ur taking Wellbutrin.
Stay on it

As with most medications, they should be titrated downward under a doctor's supervision. Wellbutrin (Bupropion) typically is best taken in the morning as it does have an activation component. When taken later in the day it can potentially interfere with sleep.

Thanks

I feel silly because I don’t know how to taper off 75 mg. And if I’ll feel any type of withdrawal.
I’m so sorry about your symptoms. I wish I could help more.

In June I was on 450mg of Bupropion, that I had been on for fifteen years. I am now on 150mg and that goes in a week. I have had no discontinuation effects at all!

In fact in June I was on fourteen different meds, eight psyche meds with the remainder to deal with the side effects.

I am now on two, the aforementioned bupropion and 40mg of Latuda. Both will be gone before the end of the year.

All of this has been approved by my therapist, psych provider and primary care physician. I am monitored closely, weekly therapist visits, monthly labs as well as monthly primary care and psyche provider visits Oh, I am also on parole. I see my parole officer monthly as well.

How has this happened.

1. Research into my diagnosis, meds and all of the side effects and interactions of those meds.
2. Dietary changes: No sugar, no ultra processed foods, lots of veggies, whole grains and clean protein.
3 Daily exercise: fifteen minutes a day to start now two hours ( love moving)

That's it!

Let's be clear if I screw up I go back to prison! And prison sucks!

Initially my doctors were skeptical, no one gets better from major depressive disorder or bipolar disorder or whatever they said I had this week. I had to have the research to back it up. Fortunately the information is readily available on page one of a Google Search.

Yeah that's it type in your question and you will have high quality, peer reviewed literature from the Country's leading institution at your finger tips. I had more information about my conditions and treatments than my doctors did in about four hours. When they realized this they had to pay attention.

It took me fifteen years of hell, my wife leaving me and taking the children and going to prison until I was desperate enough to finally, type a question into a Google Search. If you can read and have access to the internet (pretty much everybody) then you can find answers your doctors haven't even thought up the questions to yet.

Are doctors bad people? No, I do not think so. The system does not allow them the time to ask the right questions let alone find the answers.

My parole officer said to me just today "you look great, I never knew when you came in if I was going to see you again, you where so suicidal".

I want to be clear: THERE IS NOTHING SPECIAL ABOUT ME!

I went to prison for assaulting someone who was breaking up my marriage. I had never committed a violent act in my life and never have since, it's been ten years. I was however on massive quantities of psych meds along with alcohol (sure you can drink on psyche meds just not too much is what my doctor told me.) Who knew!

I was a successful business man worth millions by forty. I was married to the love of my life with four beautiful children who counted on me. Fifteen years ago I went to a psychiatrist because I was tired, depressed (what I called depression then) and felt like I had nothing to live for.

I Had also worked twelve hours a day, slept five hours a night, ate garbage and never exercised for twenty years. I was I was one hundred and eight five pounds when I started my business, twenty years later, two hundred and fifty. I topped out at two sixty, four months ago. I'm now two thirty five without weight loss drugs, long way to go.

I was sick alright. But I didn't need 450mg of bupropion, 450mg venlafaxine and 900mg of Lithium. I needed to take stock of my life and what I had to lose. My wife told me you work too much, you don't sleep enough, you eat garbage and you haven't exercised in years. Her advice came from love and fell on my deaf ears.

The psychiatrist advice came out of the mouths of drug salespeople pushing magic pills to fools like me looking for a quick fix to the problems I had created for myself.

I have destroyed the lives of my my now ex-wife and my children. Am I at fault? You bet I am.

I went looking for a pill that would allow me to continue to feed my ego. While I tried to achieve more and more I told myself it was for my family; bullshit! It was for the greater glory of me and they paid the price.

Now I am sixty years old and a broken man. My only goal now is to live long enough to try to help my ex-wife and children heal. All I had to do was stop and listen long enough to the woman that loved me and I might have saved my family from years of horrible suffering. I failed them.

Deep inside there was a little voice telling me my wife was right but I snuffed it out.

Please, please, please if you ever hear that voice pay attention!

I wish everyone the peace you deserve. Remember you are loved.

P.S. I had to do one other thing. I had to be mercilessly and ruthlessly honest with myself.