"CompUser" wrote in message ...
: In article 209Ih.11083$Wc.2294
: @bignews3.bellsouth.net,
: says...
:
: I have smoked and then quit several times in the course
: of my life. Quit each time cold turkey with nothing
: more than willpower. This time was different however.
: Coming off a year of incredible stress and increased
: workload thanks to being waxed by a hurricane and
: due to the fact that I still had a lot of catching up to do
: projects wise in spite of being thoroughly burned out
: from it all, I opted to use a little help in the form
: of Wellbutrin\Zyban this time
: to ward of the depression that the lower dopamine
: levels of nicotine withdrawal causes.
:
:
: Take a look at welbutrin in wikipedia:
: ============
: Common side effects include dry mouth, tremors,
: anxiety, loss of appetite, agitation, dizziness,
: headache, excessive sweating such as night
: sweats, increased risk of seizure (its most
: controversial side effect, found in 4/1000 during
: trials), aggressiveness, tinnitus, and both
: initial and terminal insomnia. Activation of
: mania and psychosis have both been encountered.
: The side effect profile is consistent with that
: observed in mixed dopamine and norepinephrine
: reuptake inhibition. Some patients may also
: require less than the normal dosing which usually
: starts at around 75 mg for the first few weeks
: and is then switched to the normal 150?300 mg
: dosage; these patients may be kept on the 150 mg
: regimen however, some patients are experimentally
: placed on doses as high and sometimes exceeding,
: 600 mg/day.[citation needed] Dosage is strictly
: on a patient to patient basis and can vary
: greatly.
: ==============
:
: There are quite a few conditions that
: contraindicate use of welbutrin, also..you might
: want to check it all out.


yeah, I'm hep. Wellbutrin was my first suspect
and I did indeed research the side effects.
So the first thing I did was to discontinue the
Wellbutrin. However 3 months after discontinuance
the problems were only getting worse.

Now I could understand that it might take
awhile for some drugs to leave the body, but
I don't think that if a drug was the cause that
the symptoms would actually get worse when
it was discontinued. Perhaps not impossible.
but not very likely IMHO.

You see, that's what I was trying to explain
to Massive Prong. I really believed that
discontinuing the Wellbutrin was going
to make the problem go away, so if the problem
was psychomatic or if my cure was psychosomatic
or placebo effect, then the problem would have
ended right then and there with my belief that
the discontinuance of Wellbutrin was going to
put an end to it.
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