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Re: No immediate benefit from Wellbutrin?????

Posted by katekite on June 1, 2002, at 11:55:40

In reply to No immediate benefit from Wellbutrin?????, posted by Anyuser on June 1, 2002, at 11:21:49

Well, he's wrong. Of course sometimes there is a predictive (hey this is great) response to wellbutrin or anything else, many times there's not. Even so, it still most likely takes 5 or 6 weeks for a drug to cause the upregulation/downregulation thought to be responsible for most alleviation of depression. Plus even if you have only a partial response to it after 6 weeks that is an important finding and information to carry around for later: worth waiting it out to find out.

As to switching docs, there seem to be a lot of benefits to this one: he is interested in drugs and he prescribed the first thing you asked for. So he is willing to work with you. That can be hard to find in itself.

Find out if he will work with you. Tell him you want to give it the 6 weeks you think it deserves before switching.

My pdoc is excellent: he says, "there's no way to predict response to any drug and drugs always need to be tried for at least 6 weeks to see what effects they have... I don't do that much here, its a crapshoot".

kate


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