Posted by TemporarilyBob on October 29, 2012, at 2:27:21
In reply to Paxil withdrawal question., posted by Martha Courtney on October 28, 2012, at 15:06:28
Take this for what it is --- a one-time experience. Who knows if it was just me or what should be typical or what. Quite frankly, single drug therapy on either of these scares the bejezub out of me so I will never be willing to try either of them, even in combination, again. This is pure, arm-chair back-seat psychofarming.
Paxil was an absolute nightmare for me. My pdoc at the time, wanted to try something different than SSRIs (since they had failed so miserably for me ... still checking out single drug therapies at this time). He wanted me to try Wellbutrin, but he wanted me to wash the Paxil out of my system first. Well, withdrawal from Paxil for me was worse than being on it -- and being on it including hallucinating that NYC highrises I was walking next to were starting to curl over at the top and getting ready to fall on me ... thank god for subways!
So, I demanded we start the Wellbutrin earlier than my pdoc planned. We titrated up the Wellbutrin as we titrated down the Paxil. As some point, we reached this "golden moment" when my depression and anxiety were both gone. Vanished. Truth be told with 20/20 hindsight, I could have been manic since I have a history of SSRIs inducing mania. But if not, I had some combination in my bloodstream that really really worked. In the end, the Wellbutrun got me through my Paxil withdrawal astonishingly well. What wellbutrin did on its own to me, once the paxil was out of my system is a completely different scary story, best reserved for telling on a night a few nights from now (yes, that spooky). Even tho I may have felt the most relief in my entire life with both in my system, what they do to me own their own is enough for me to never want to try it again. But just wanna toss out my thought on the subject.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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