wefunction wrote:
I was put on 150mg of Wellbutrin XL, which did nothing... but I knew there was fiddling that could be done so I didn't lose hope on the medicine. The doc boosted me to 300mg and life was okay. I wasn't freaking out about anything. My insomnia seemed manageable, albeit still there. I didn't feel any different.
Then I missed a dose.
Then I missed another one.
And another.
And another.
Right now I'm not sure how many days I've missed.
Three nights ago I was awake until 5am uncontrollably crying because 3 of my 4 kids are on visitation and it's too late for me to call to make sure they're all alive. My anxiety level is running high by default again and when my husband got p!ssy with me a few nights ago, it was devastating (as opposed to me just silently calling him a d!ck and shrugging it off). I have been up until 4am consistently without sleeping during the day to compensate.
So the medicine really makes a difference and I don't think I'm going to go off of it again if I can help it. Technically, I still don't need it to function but if I want to function well, 300mg of Wellbutrin XL is a key ingredient to helping that happen for me.
Morals of the Story:
- Take your happy pills!
- If it aint broke, don't fix it!
You need a pill timer! When I was first put on meds, I was 20 and living in San Francisco, and I just could not remember to take them. Then when I was in Walgreens one day, I saw that they had pill timers on sale for $10. That was the best $10 I ever spent. With the timer I could train my brain to take my pills when I went to bed, and later twice a day. When I dropped it in the bathtub 10 years later, I didn't miss it, because I hadn't been using it for a while. I had successfully trained myself to take my meds twice a day. Google pill timers, you can find a real nice one for maybe $20 (inflation). You need to train yourself to always take your meds. The pill timer will help.