Started Wellbutrin, Adderall and STOPPED Prozac after years. DOPAMINE!!!

[Anonymous]

After years of addressing depression and anxiety, took ADD Test. Started experimenting with various drugs and recently working with combination of Wellbutrin, Adderall – Clonazepam for sleep. WOW. I’m HAPPIER and less depressed WITHOUT Prozac. Crazy. It really appears to be about the DOPAMINE instead of SEROTONIN for me. I ALWAYS thought it was all about the Seratonin. It is a major revelation.

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[Anonymous]

Pitch… How long have you been on this regiment? What are the dosage rates of the med combos you are on. What about frequency rate per day.

I get the “happier” feeling but I am curious what about the symptoms of ADHD. Can u please share as to what symptoms of your type ADHD have benefited through this combo.

NJ

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[Saffron]

Wow. I had a similar, no less momentous epiphany this winter.

Zoloft (SSRI sister-med to prozac), which I’d taken off and on for years in a very low dose for PMDD/depression, was actually causing me increasingly profound anhedonia. Despite having found my stride in life socially, as a parent and in my career, and despite taking care of myself and my ADHD, my ability to feel pleasure had dwindled since starting Concerta until I became reclusive outside of the “acting” required to function. I lost all motivation to engage in my favorite hobbies and pastimes. I finally dabbled in cannabis (first time since my teens) just to try to get occasional relief—and the fact that it gave me moments of normalcy was my first clue that my dopamine was suppressed.

I believe that the stimulants I started two years ago simply didn’t mix with an SSRI. The worse I felt, the more often I took the SSRI (thinking it was some kind of anergic depression), and the worse the anhedonia became. Thank dog I have a doctor who took it seriously.

I now take just a Wellbutrin-Concerta combo, and I feel BLESSEDLY normal again. There are ups, there are downs, but I’m not always secretly wondering what the point is of making the effort to do anything. My magical daughter smiles at me with her hair all askew, and I just have to pick her up and swing her around. I work hard and meet a rush deadline at work, and am pleased with myself for the rest of the day. Exercise brings the rush and clarity it used to, and I look forward to my next workout. A passage in a good book inspires me, and a shared good meal with the perfect glass of syrah makes me profoundly grateful for all I have. Sleep makes it all better when I’m a little down after a hard day. Sweet is back.

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[Anonymous]

The dopamine defiiciency seems to be a key marker of an ADHD person. I know that much. I was on many anti-depresants and they helped but I definetly had the anhedonia effect. In fact I felt like I could watch my home burn to the ground and just shrug my shoulders and say, “hey – shit happens!”? Didn’t really feel well. When I started Adderal I felt better within days. I’m not just talking about the obvious UP that this can give you, I understand that. I am talking about feeling calmer, more there and focused, and finding pleasure in some things that I’d not felt in decades. I also found out I had very low hormone levels and started treatment for that. Between those two items and counseling I am doing awesome. Awesome. Oh — I haven’t been on SSRIs or Welbutrin for years because of adverse effects including siezure, and loss of libido… which was explained by the hormone problem… well wishes to ya!

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