bupropion follow-up

this a follow-up with my recent and seeming problems with bupropion.

med change? no. it sure feels like it.

since I started taking bupropion, i’ve always taken a multiple of 150 mg tablets. here’s a quick rundown.

• started at 150 mg
• moved to 300 mg
• tried 600 mg- side effects that I don’t recall
• back to 300 mg
• tried 450 mg– good results but i couldn’t stand the constant headaches and ear ringing.
• back to 300 mg.

and so the story goes…

my brief experiment with bupropion at 450mg has come to an end. sigh.

the trill of victory and the agony of defeat

let’s start off with a little history. working with my psychiatrist, we added bupropion, generic wellbrutin, to my lithium. at 300 mg, I saw no effect. then the dose got bumped to 600 mg; i saw effects, side effects, that is. keep in mind by hand normally tremor, but at the higher dose the tremor doubled. i think there were other side effects, but I can not remember. so, we made the decision to cut back to 300 mg.