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antidep update
Monday, November 9th, 2009 09:58 pmI stopped taking the budeprion (generic Wellbutrin) pills after 3 weeks. They seemed to be making my mood even worse than usual, in addition to the frequent onsets of anger and rage and other side-effects.
I did a websearch and found that there are a lot of claims that the generic Wellbutrin, especially the one manufactured by Teva (which is the kind I have), doesn't work like the regular Wellbutrin.
My next appointment is in a few days, and now I'm undecided as to what to do. Should I ask for a prescription for the non-generic Wellbutrin, and give it a try? If so, I should do it now, since it sounds like my insurance may have a "mandatory generic" program starting next year, meaning that they won't cover any of the extra cost for the non-generic drugs. But I dread having the Wellbutrin affect me the same way the budeprion did. And I'm tired of taking pills. They don't seem to work, and they give me unpleasant side-effects. The Pristiq seemed the best of the lot, but it only really made me feel hyper, not really better. But even it made my vision blurrier than normal, and made my pupils stay dilated somewhat. So I don't want to go back on it either.
It's discouraging thinking about how the pills don't make me feel better.
And it's discouraging that my lower back pain keeps getting worse, and I don't know what to do about it.
And I don't have the time nor enough motivation to do the exercises I used to do.
On the bright side however, I haven't had any unexplained swellings this last month. Not even when I punched both fists into the rug last week - my hands only got a little bit swollen for a short time period from that, as would be expected. The knuckles are still slightly achy.
I did a websearch and found that there are a lot of claims that the generic Wellbutrin, especially the one manufactured by Teva (which is the kind I have), doesn't work like the regular Wellbutrin.
My next appointment is in a few days, and now I'm undecided as to what to do. Should I ask for a prescription for the non-generic Wellbutrin, and give it a try? If so, I should do it now, since it sounds like my insurance may have a "mandatory generic" program starting next year, meaning that they won't cover any of the extra cost for the non-generic drugs. But I dread having the Wellbutrin affect me the same way the budeprion did. And I'm tired of taking pills. They don't seem to work, and they give me unpleasant side-effects. The Pristiq seemed the best of the lot, but it only really made me feel hyper, not really better. But even it made my vision blurrier than normal, and made my pupils stay dilated somewhat. So I don't want to go back on it either.
It's discouraging thinking about how the pills don't make me feel better.
And it's discouraging that my lower back pain keeps getting worse, and I don't know what to do about it.
And I don't have the time nor enough motivation to do the exercises I used to do.
On the bright side however, I haven't had any unexplained swellings this last month. Not even when I punched both fists into the rug last week - my hands only got a little bit swollen for a short time period from that, as would be expected. The knuckles are still slightly achy.