Wellbutrin? That's not an antidepressant, it's for giving up smoking!

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**** my life. So I ran down to the GPs today full of joy and hope. "Hey, hey, I've found a way of lowering the effect of Citaloprams side-effects!"
"Um, no... there isn't anything that can do that"
"Yah lol srsly check out Bupropion"
"That's for giving up smoking"
"No really I've been talking to people and heavily researched it and it can be used as an antidepressant"
"No it can't"

So later I came home and read the paragraph on Wikipedia that I totally skipped last time round. Turns out Bupropion is only licensed for giving up smoking in the UK. It's been 2 years since an EU country last accepted it as an antidepressant treatment.

Also my GP wanted me to go up to the 40mg on Citalopram (am on 20mg) as soon as possible to get the side effects over and done with. Which means my sex-drive (which has practically disappeared on the 20mg) will likely die. It also means my somnolence is going to get worse. Plus there's a good chance that these side effects may not even stop.

Added to which I went to my local supermarket twice today. The first time I had a jolly old time. The next time it occurred to me that my ex-girlfriend often shops there, and I began looking out for her, and then her car as I waited for the bus, and then her car as the bus drove home, and then her car outside where I live.

I am now sad and feeling great amounts of pity for myself. The plan for tonight? My warm, warm, loving soft caring comfy puffy bed and some good Friday night comedy. Also chocolate.

[RockiNToM]

You will find that a lot here in the UK. Most GP's and Psychiatrists I have encountered are very ignorant about things like that. I've had my fair share of heated moments with them all in regards to medications. One actually telling me SSRIs don't cause sexual dysfunction. No really. This sort of tripe is why you see so many people self-medicating.

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Am looking into getting my nails redone.
Thanks Vini. xD

[Vini Vidi Vici]

yeah thats really irritating...i can totally feel your pain. Wellbutrin worked amazingly to take away the sexual side effects of SSRIs for me. it also was a great antidepressant and worked really good in combination with the SSRI (zoloft for me)

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Wow, I very nearly just lost another account
Thanks for the warning

[Vini Vidi Vici]

Originally Posted by semidetached

Am looking into getting my nails redone.
Thanks Vini. xD

...LOLOL crap man this post is so great, im seriosuly laughing, and i dont laugh at much stuff anymore.... you just made my day - ... dude. lol

[crayzyMed]

Originally Posted by RockiNToM

You will find that a lot here in the UK. Most GP's and Psychiatrists I have encountered are very ignorant about things like that. I've had my fair share of heated moments with them all in regards to medications. One actually telling me SSRIs don't cause sexual dysfunction. No really. This sort of tripe is why you see so many people self-medicating.

LOL, last time a doc was telling me buspar was a dangerous antipsychotic, i said no its not bad at all (not really good either but didnt mention that as i wanted to try high doses of buspar) and i tolled him its not addictive and he tolled me "thats wat they say...".

[Vini Vidi Vici]

i cant remember any blatant misconceptions from my psychiatrists, just only a complete lack of knowledge. its gonna be hard for me to explain why i need Memantine to prevent tolerance to the Adderral...and thats pretty simple to explain really, its just hard., cuz having social anxiety and all, i stutter so much that i can barely say what i need to say...

ya one time i told my Doc that Bupropion was commonly used with an SSRI to decrease negative side effects and to enhance the antidepressant part, she didnt know at all about it, but she was a nice person, so it was all good..i got the bupropion anyway after some explaining

[crayzyMed]

Originally Posted by Vini Vidi Vici

i cant remember any blatant misconceptions from my psychiatrists, just only a complete lack of knowledge. its gonna be hard for me to explain why i need Memantine to prevent tolerance to the Adderral...and thats pretty simple to explain really, its just hard., cuz having social anxiety and all, i stutter so much that i can barely say what i need to say...

ya one time i told my Doc that Bupropion was commonly used with an SSRI to decrease negative side effects and to enhance the antidepressant part, she didnt know at all about it, but she was a nice person, so it was all good..i got the bupropion anyway after some explaining

Yeah i also noticed that many have no clue about pharmacology, thats a pretty bad thing as they wont know what combo's would synergize and stuff, as they often give their patients a medcocktail that is kinda a bad thing..

I hear ya, its allmost impossible to explain alot about pharmacology with social anxiety, like you only say a few things so it sounds like you dont know much at all.. it sucks..

[Vini Vidi Vici]

Originally Posted by crayzyMed

Yeah i also noticed that many have no clue about pharmacology, thats a pretty bad thing as they wont know what combo's would synergize and stuff, as they often give their patients a medcocktail that is kinda a bad thing..

I hear ya, its allmost impossible to explain alot about pharmacology with social anxiety, like you only say a few things so it sounds like you dont know much at all.. it sucks..

ya i know dude. im actually really lucky, my current psych is the smartest one ive gotten yet, and ive had 4 or 5 before this one...she acutally knows what im talking about , most of the time, but it can still be hard 4 me to get her to give me certain cocktails of stuff

[jim_morrison]

It's strange that Wellbutrin is not used for depression in UK/Aus etc, considering that it shifts roughly 20 million scripts for depression each year in the united states, you would think that big pharma would be milking that cash cow in every country they possibly could. I guess perhaps it went off patent or something *shrugs*.

[Vini Vidi Vici]

Originally Posted by jim_morrison

It's strange that Wellbutrin is not used for depression in UK/Aus etc, considering that it shifts roughly 20 million scripts for depression each year in the united states, you would think that big pharma would be milking that cash cow in every country they possibly could. I guess perhaps it went off patent or something *shrugs*.

its kinda sad....as is the lack of amphetamine in Europe. acutally its really sad, especially for those who can't tolerate SSRIs side effects....what other dopaminergic can the UK people get? sniff most people cant get amphetamine, or other ADD drugs...

[crayzyMed]

Originally Posted by Vini Vidi Vici

its kinda sad....as is the lack of amphetamine in Europe. acutally its really sad, especially for those who can't tolerate SSRIs side effects....what other dopaminergic can the UK people get? sniff most people cant get amphetamine, or other ADD drugs...

We do have dexedrine.