Posted by neuroman on August 15, 2006, at 22:25:03
In reply to can you help me? Wellbutrin XL, posted by spriggy on August 15, 2006, at 0:34:32
Hi,
Sorry to hear your having a hard time. If SSRIs are a bust for you than it probably makes sense to give a dopamine/norepinephrine med like wellbutrin a try. I too suffer from chronic pain and a profound lack of energy. I gave wellbutrin a brief run last year and found that it did provide some pain relief within an hour of the first dose. Unfortunately, it didn't give me any energy boost. In fact, it made me more sleepy. In hindsight I think I may have thrown in the towel too soon. The sleepiness side effect may have passed had I stuck with it longer. Well I'm about to give it another run. I still have a bottle of generic bupropion SR 100mg tablets and I'm going to start taking them again tomorrow morning. I've been trying the "natural" approach and taking large amounts of the amino acid tyrosine (precursor to dopamine and norepinephrine) and that's helped some. But I can't lose anymore years. If the wellbutrin/bupropion doesn't work then I guess I'll reluctantly have to go to the TCA's again. But not elavil. No way...
Good luck.
Paul
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