I SHOULD MAKE T-SHIRTS!

Yes. Yes you should.

I gained 100 pounds after I was put on SSRIs.

I gained weight after going on SSRIs. But I also got older, and stopped exercising as much as I did in my 20s. So it's hard to say if I can attribute 5 pounds to SSRIs, or 50.

And in extremely rare instances, sometimes it can cause seizures. That you keep having for the rest of your life, unless you take meds. For the rest of your life.

Wow, seriously? That's awful. I had no idea.

I cut my dose in half because I was so jittery -- shaking hands, racing heart, sweating. Not pleasant. Tomorrow I get to tell the doctor I did, too.

I cut my dose in half because I was so jittery -- shaking hands, racing heart, sweating.

It made me feel like a huge speed freak. Plus I didn't sleep for, like, 5 months. So I stopped it, because I like sleep.

I'm still sleeping, but I have other ... aids to help with that. I was also beginning to feel Murderously Irritable all the time, which was not so pleasant.

Also? I saw it gets prescribed to help people quit smoking, and I don't know how that works, but I'm certainly not tempted to smoke any less.

I was also beginning to feel Murderously Irritable all the time, which was not so pleasant.

Oh, yes. I had that, too.

Hah--whereas being murderously irritable about EVERYTHING was a sign to me that I needed some meds to start with. God forbid they'd made me WORSE! (I have not, however, had magic weightloss or new stronger focusing powers or anything. Sadly)

Wellbutrin gave me a 24-hr mania/anxiety attack, so i wasn't on it long enough to judge if it was helping anything else.

Steph, what birthday is taxidermied frogs?

Steph, what birthday is taxidermied frogs?

That would be 36. The creepy birthday. (I also got him a t-shirt with Cthulhu and H.P. Lovecraft on the front, so it really IS the creepy birthday. Not on purpose. But it's as good a theme as any, especially for him.

Wow, seriously? That's awful. I had no idea.

Yeah, apparently it's incorrect to say that Wellbutrin caused my epilepsy. Wellbutrin lowered my seizure threshold, and in individuals (such as myself) who are vulnerable to having their seizure thresholds lowered in such a way, it can cause seizures, which then opens up pathways in my brain which makes me more likely to have seizures all the time. OR SOMETHING.

Maybe I would have had a seizure at some point in my life without the Wellbutrin, but no one can say for sure. Nothing on my EEGs, C-T scans, or MRIs point to any reason why my brain was particularly vulnerable in the first place. All we know is that now, if I miss a dose of my meds, or get too little sleep, or drink way too much, or some combo of those, I might (in the case of missing my meds, almost definitely will) have a seizure. YAY.

Luckily for myself and everyone, I am freakishly anal about taking my meds every twelve hours, and I don't drink to excess, and I treat sleeping like it's my second job. Because seizures are no fun. For me, or anybody in my vicinity.