I might have taken on some extra rage
No, it was...I wondered if I was having a psychotic break. For real. It was not a good drug for me.
All I got from Wellbutrin was increased anxiety and shaking hands. Neither of which has entirely gone away, two years after I stopped taking it.
It took a full year after I quit taking it for the insomnia to let up, but I still have trouble with insomnia. It's a pisser. (I had occasional insomnia before the Wellbutrin, but not as badly or as consistently as I did while I was taking it.)
Wellbutrin made me horny and made me lose some weight, but it also made me VIOLENTLY ragey and gave me insomnia for about a year.
Geez, I"m with Ginger--I never get the good side effects! Heck, even benadryl doesn't make me sleepy. And topamax did decrease my appetite some, but didn't actually make me lose weight, so that was not helpful enough (apparently they are now marketing it as a weight loss drug, which...seriously? It fucked up my speech! Made me foggy!)
I still hear people sigh longingly for the days of phenfen and what a bummer it was that a few cardiac arrests had to take it off the market. Compared to that, what's a bit of fog and slurred speech?
Well, and if it were effective in weight loss, I might be into that. :) But since it didn't actually make me lose weight (more like it made me forget to eat lunch, on days when I was working from home?)...
Tramadol did NOT put me to sleep, but it left me feeling like a really decayed zombie. It was horrible. FWIW, I have been off Celexa for two months -- took it for ten, eleven years -- and have been on a new AD, Viibryd, for 2 months. It is REALLY helping! And no side effects. Except to my bank account, but crushing depression kinda makes it worth it.
I need to score me some clomid.
There is an entirely herbal, uh, remedy that very often produces those effects.
So I hear, I mean.
Geez, I"m with Ginger--I never get the good side effects! Heck, even benadryl doesn't make me sleepy.
I never get the fun side effects either. Not even from 'recreational' drugs...except for the one time...
sj, I had some pretty unpleasant experiences with Clomid when I was trying to get pregnant years ago. I had menopause symptoms and was wildly moody. It wasn't great for my depression, either. It definitely did not make me frisky. But honestly, it's not something you can predict, and the only way to know how it's going to affect you is to try it. I would advise having TCG on alert for symptoms, though, and have coping plans in place to get through that period. It sucked, but it would have been worth it if I had gotten pregnant.
My mom got the Phenfen heart attack and my dad got the Vioxx heart attack. Given my family's luck with meds, I'm waiting for the announcement that ibuprofen causes people's parathyroids to dissolve. Or maybe I'll be one of the initial data points.
