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[QUOTE="truespode, post: 634639, member: 29329"] Well, part of it is kinda emberassing. This will be long. I am only sharing b/c I hope that what I went through will help someone else think twice or at least ask more questions! If you don't want to read all of it then just read this part... FIND A FAMILY DOCTOR YOU TRUST! GO TO THEM FIRST FOR ANYTHING UNLESS IT IS A TRUE EMERGENCY!! Now the long version... Ever since I was a kid I was hyper and had trouble concentrating. However, I've always compensated well (I have a good job, a company I just left wants me back, I have earned my MA in Mgmt and am only 4 classes away from an MBA). Well, unfortunately my new job has been less work than I envisioned so I got bored and started reading my spam mail. Honestly, I was that bored. I also saw a couple of Newsweek mag covers about Adult ADD. Well, it turns out the magazine covers were advertisements and not real covers. Now I've always had a grudge against Psychiatry and Chiropractors. A year ago I saw a chiropractor and he changed the way I see them. My migraines are very infrequent and I really do notice a difference. He changed my mind about Chiropractors. Well, when reading this stuff on ADD I figured I may need to be more open minded about psychiatry. Either way I took some of those anxiety and ADD tests. Of course I scored in a percentile that said to see a doc. Since I had PPO I decided to see a specialist (psychiatrist). I went for 1 hour and talked to one counselor and then 15 minutes with the doc and left with a prescription for Wellbutrin SR (this is also given out at times for depression and used to help people stop smoking - under the name Zyban). Now I've always been a worry wart and I still am. I guess b/c of that they thought meds would help. I told myself to be open minded! I was on the Wellbutrin for 2 weeks and then went to see my family doc about some back tightness. He gave me some Skelaxin (muscle relaxer) and Bextra (anti-inflammatory). I took them the next morning and felt fine when I went to work. 2 hours later my back stopped hurting as if a rubber band had been let go. Then less than a minute later my throat felt funny, my hands tingled and my heart rate dropped. I started shaking and got up to walk around. I looked like a nervous wreck but I would check my heart rate and it was not getting above 60bpm. I went to the ER thinking the Skelaxin was the issue. They gave me a shot of benedryl and other than the shaking and not being able to breath through my nose I felt fine to drive home. I took my second dose of Wellbutrin for the day and decided not to take any of the Skelaxin or Bextra again. Later that night I started shaking and having waves of weirdness in my head. I got diarhea and was vomitting. I went to the ER again but this was a different one since the one earlier was near work and I live 30 miles from there. They thought that since I was treated for a reaction that I must not be still having one so they gave me Ativan for an anxiety attack. Even though my vitals were good at this point. I just felt odd physically in my head and couldn't stop shaking, plus by this time my nose was completely closed up. Friday the 4th I was still feeling bad but still took my Wellbutrin and started to feel worse. By this time I couldn't eat or drink. It would go right through me and it was hard to chew, swallow and even have a partial appetite. I tried as hard as I could to force food down but couldn't. Not even applesauce. On Saturday I thought I better just stop taking the Ativan and Wellbturin b/c I was not getting any better. By Sunday night I felt better but had developed severe heartburn and problems with my gastro. Anything I ate caused me pain and discomfort but at least I started to get an appetite. I could not breath through my nose so my mouth was raw and I felt like I was breathing fumes from my stomach. Then on Monday the Nurse Practitioner blamed the Wellbutrin but the specialist scoffed and said I had a panic disorder. Now let me get off tangent real quick. I have had about 30 times in my life where acid has popped up my throat and went down my airway. When this happens it swells the airway and I cannot breath. It takes about 60 seconds before I can wheeze and 5 minutes for it all to subside. I have learned to deal with stuff like that calmly despite the physical reactions I had during it. Now if I had a panic disorder I would have a lot of problems in those situations. Plus, my symptons were more physical than emotional, the feelings in my head were not to hurt myself or others but waves of weirdness, not even pain but it made me unsteady and unable to think or speak clearly. I had also lost 11lbs in 4 days. By weeks end I went from 224 down to 206 (I'm at a steady 210 now). I then went to my family doc and by this time I was out of it and could barely handle things. He treated me for anxiety and gastro trouble b/c he said at that point the root cause was buried under all the other things going one. The specialist still insisted I had panic disorder. Finally, after a week of healing and not taking anything but XANAX (a bad drug that I'm getting off of but it was the specialists recommendation) I could eat again and piece things together. To make things easier to see my Cousin had just been prescribed Wellbutrin as well and she had a similar reaction but her doctor caught it and put her on something else. Well, basically what happened IMO (and my family doc concurs that this is definately a possibility) was that it took the 2 weeks on Wellbutrin for it to build into my system up to a toxic state (may not be the proper term). I had my reaction less than a week after going to 2 doses a day. The Skelaxin and Bextra being put in at the same time may have served as a catalyst and my body just couldn't handle it anymore. Wellbutrin is a cumulative drug so you do not notice its results immediately. Also, while on Wellbutrin I was very agitated and quick tempered. Plus, for an anxious person like myself Wellbutrin can intensify the anxiety and make it seem like more of a problem than it is. When I stopped taking the Wellbutrin the waves in my head stopped about 20 hours later and I was left with the aftermath of the heartburn. The day after that though I was having withdrawal symptons from the Wellbutrin combined with the Anxiety that nobody could tell me 100% what happened. Even the specialist admitted it was possibly something else since my vitals stayed normal and I lost so much weight but he wanted to treat me anyway for panic. I have done a lot of research and the Wellbutrin can cause exactly the symptons I've had, even though it is rare. My issue was that the first ER thought it was the Skelaxin and the second thought it was a panic attack. The specialist just went with the panic attack idea and put me on XANAX and for a week I took it before I could think straight. I was REALLY out of it. I'm talking one word sentences and taking 30 seconds to a minute to respond to the question "do you want me to bring you some water?" Now I have to slowly taper off b/c that stuff can be dangerous if I just stop cold turkey. The bottom line was that I was too open-minded about the new "drug age" of things and did not ask the questions I normally would or should have. I also fell for the marketing of go to a specialist and not your family doc. It turns out my family doc (who I have seen for 7 years now) was the only one to start to see what was going on even though he had to treat symptons in reverse b/c by the time I got to him I had a lot going on with the gastro, acid reflux, withdrawal from Wellbutrin, etc. If ANY of you think that drugs will make you feel better talk to your FAMILY doc first and make sure your family doc is one you can TRUST. If I would have went to him first he would have put me on an exercise regimen first (that is what he told me) b/c he knew how much I travelled with my previous job and how little I was getting out at the time. The specialist was just a pill pusher and not someone who was caring for my wellbeing. Also, do some research. Don't just trust what you are being told. I am lucky that my family doc will let me ask a lot of questions and I'll argue with him about a particular drug and what I've learned about it and he will explain why I'm wrong or why that doesn't apply to me. He was a resident of the specialist so he is aware of the guys treatment program. Fortunately, my family doc has agreed to take over all RX management from here on out and get me back to where I was and that is drug free. He just wants me exercising more b/c he knows that when I'm active things are better. He once told me 6 months after I started riding that the difference in my bp and cholesterol was noticeable and that I should keep riding if that is what motivates me to get out and exercise b/c the health benefit I get is worth the possibility of injury... he did lecture me on safety gear though :) Today I have gastro issues and have to take Prevasid to balance it out and XANAX until I can taper off correctly (a few more weeks). B/C Wellbutrin works on your Central Nervous System there are some things that will be difficult and odd for a month or two more. However, at least I believe we know what happened and can move forward. Again, always find a Family Doc you trust and go through him/her FIRST. Talk to him/her and listen. I should have done so. I'll be glad to answer any specific questions. Like I said, it is emberassing b/c I thought I had a problem but really didn't and the fix for the problem I don't have caused a lot of issues. Like my family doc said, if I really did have Adult ADD, how did I get an MA? Obviously I was able to compensate without meds before, why go to them now? He actually joked that he would have rather seen me bust my ankle before going to the specialist b/c he has seen an incredible difference in my attitude (not just from when I was sick, like I said he's knowne me 7 years) and feels that whatever happened when I hurt my ankle has done me more good than anything else he can think of. Ok, I hope you guys don't think I'm a nutcase after reading all this. It is emberassing but only b/c of the stupid way I went about it. An idle mind will do some really dumb things. Ivan [/QUOTE]
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