Posted by NANCY on October 7, 1999, at 16:51:17
In reply to Re: seizures??, posted by saint james on October 6, 1999, at 20:53:37
How interesting, St. James...I just had this exact information drilled into my stubborn Scottish head by my pdoc YESTERDAY afternoon!
I've begun 100mg, b.i.d., Wellbutrin to my existing regimine of 300mg Effexor, Synthroid and Cytomel. But, my pdoc adamantly refused to allow this additional AD unless I agreed to also take an AE (like Lamictal, yadda yadda).
This pdoc's concern was for the infamous "siezure threshold"..."everyone has a seizure threshold"..."we're particularly concern with those whom have an history with anorexia/bulimia"...
So, I agreed to the compromise. Within 24hrs, I seem to have popped right out of a dark and desperately fatigued low mood swing.
Good Luck All,
Nancy> > Were the seizures in the trials because of a group of bulimics or anorexics who were tested with it and already had screwed up metabolisms? My p-doc. told me something along those lines... Wellbutrin is working alright for me after 2.5 weeks or so and tapering up from 2 X 100 to 2 X 150 tabs. As for any off taste, I already had that so if W. contrbutes to that perhaps it will be like a double negative and cancel out the existing effect.. ; ) -- if only...
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> > > Zyban is indeed Wellbutrin... maybe it's starting to set you into seizures, one of the side effects.
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> James here...
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> Correct. also all AD's carry a slight risk of seizures, and as the study subjects already had screwed up metabolisms this very uncommon side effect may happen more often in this group.
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> j
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