Feeling overwhelmed symptoms and conditions

I have been taking Wellbutrin SR, 150 mg., once a day for about 5 years now and I love it! I have always been very active my whole life until I had to deal with some very hard family problems. Well, I started getting to where I didn't want to get out of bed in the morning and to fix a meal was more than I could handle. I tried Prozac and just wanted to sleep, so my doctor prescribed Wellbutrin for me. I started feeling like my old self again. My doctor said depression medication should make you feel normal, not out of it or anything like that. Well, I feel normal. You have to listen to your body though. I had a hard time sleeping for the first couple of weeks but that went away. I also notice that if I am starting to feel overwhelmed, I just take an extra one. I'm supposed to take 2 a day, but I only take one in the morning. Every now and then I will take one at noon also. This helps if I'm feeling overwhelmed. You just have to pay attention to your body. If you get headaches, reduce your dose or only take it every other day. I tried the XL and didn't like it. I felt more tired. I really like the SR. It seems just right for me.

hi guest 32341,
have you tried switching the time you take your pill until just before bed? some people have suggested that this may ease some of the symptoms because you pretty much sleep them off. if you are reluctant to switch to another brand of pill then give this option a try. i am a little concerned as you say that you are finding everyday things are a chore and that you are feeling overwhelmed, i was the same,i lost interest in everything,my friends,my social life,my marriage and my kids.everything was just too much like hard work,i became very introverted which is so not me! i also started to suffer other mental and psychological side effects that i never for one minute thought could be caused by my bcp. maybe you could try taking them at night for another cycle and if you are not improving or are getting worse then please please talk to your doctor about switching to another brand of pill, maybe a lower hormone dose pill. my hormones were also all over the place after having my youngest child as i breast fed her exclusively for a year and my poor body was lacking essential vitamins and minerals so i was not in the best shape when i started this pill and my life became a nightmare because of it. whilst you are still taking yasmin drink loads of water (as much as you can) take a supplement of vitamin b6 as well as a b complex and also some magnesium and calcium and also some zinc. you may be able to find a good multivit that contains all of these things try to take approx 30-50 mg b6 daily. best wishes to you whatever you decide to do. i hope that everything will turn out well for you and that you can get back to being a caring compasionate mother and friend.

sarah

I was prescribed levaquin in March of 04. I thought I was dying. I was on my 9th day of 500 mg. I took the Levaquin on this particular morning at 9:00 a.m. Around 11:00 the strangest feeling overwhelmed me. I was terribly confused. I couldn't even pick out a shirt to wear. I was shaking uncontrollably. I started to cry. My heart was racing. I was afraid of everthing. The sound of the t.v. drove me out of the room. I couldn't read a magazine. I paced back and forth. I couldn't sit down. I couldn't eat. I thought about calling an ambulance because driving was out of the question. My husband took me to the E.R. After 10 hours there, the doctor determined it was a reaction to the Levaquin. I still had occasional panic attacks even 1 1/2 years later. My heart kept racing. I was so so scared. It took me 2 years before I could even accept the fact that a vitamin was safet to swallow. Having had this reaction, it made me so afraid to swallow any other kind of pill. Even a vitamin. My mom also had to be taken by ambulance to the ER after taking Cipro. Same family, I know. She was in bad shape. It makes me so angy that my GP said, it couldn't have been the Levaquin!!!!
What is with these doctors?

Dear flower babies.
i have only onepiece of advice GET OFF THIS POISON NOW before it kills you. i wsa going through everything you have said and more and it got worse and worse. I was on ysamin for 3 years only experiencing like you did after a while not straight away. I have been off yasmin now since nov 05 and its been a low haul and many times i just wanted to lay down and die and yet i came back to this site each and very day and got encouragement from those around here who had been there. Get off now and start regaining your life again. I would get on a good mulitvitamin immediately and some magnesium to help rebuild all htat has been deplete. Its not going to be easy but start now and in time you will be able to cope with your children again i know i have 3 and it was so hard in the beginning and now its getting better even though i still have those bad days but more good than bad.
cheer lisa

SILKE how are you i hope all is well i think about you often and hope you are getting better each and every day. Has your cycle resumed yet??/

Chrissy are u ok have not read any post from you for so long.

TWO GIRLS MOM... hows things i hope you are getting better each and every day. Hows the bp
lisa

I rarely post, but my terrible experience with this drug, requires it. I've taken dozens of different drugs over the years, and almost never suffer side-effects. I took a dose of Singulair about 10pm, awoke at 4am with severe light-headedness, dizzy, feeling overwhelmed, nausea, incredible weakness, loss of balance, and generally, feeling absolutely dreadful. By 6am, I found myself vomiting. By 8am, I made the trip to the ER. My heart rate and BP were all over the place. As there wasn't really anything they could do, I was sent home. Slowly, I started to feel better as the Singulair (thankfully) left my body. The next day, things were pretty much back to normal. Please use great caution with this drug - I (obviously) will stay far away from it!