Adderall With Wellbutrin

Generic Wellbutrin is exactly the same as the brand name in every aspect. It has to be in order to be accredited by the FDA. The differences you hear about are mostly psychological(placebo).

people just need to get off all these damn medications. everything is over prescribed and people are mixing medications which is very dangerous. i have several friends who are complaining to their parents about being depressed to get wellbutrin or complaining about not being able to focus to get aderall which is all a bunch of crap. they just want it to lose weight... and they get it because doctors are just handing it out to anyone who can afford their therapy.

Who are you to say that people should get off there meds. As a kid I had ADHD. That was before it gained so much popularity. Growing up undiagnosed harmed me greatly. I barely graduated high school and I had and have very few relationships. When I became an adult I could not hold down a job for more than a couple of months. If you do not have Adult ADD then you can never understand how hard it is just function on a day to day basis. Any one of of you out there know that ADD is more than just focus problems. It's constant restlessness and an overwhelming feeling of frustration because you seem to be constantly working to catch up with your life. I told my husband that i felt like my brain was a jigsaw puzzle and the pieces were scattered all over the house. Before my meds I remember crying alot, not out of depression, but frustration. I felt stupid because I couldnt finish simple house hold tasks and I my short-term memory seemed non-existent. I'm sure that every once in a while you would walk into a room and forget what you went for. I did it all the time. I would forget phone calls and shopping took hours because I could not focus on any one item. This disorder is just as debilitating as autism or retardation. If it wasn't for a great doctor and Adderall/wellbutrin I would probably be divorced. Yes, I agree that stimulants are over-prescribed to thousands of people who don't need them and that makes it harder for those of us with the real disorder. It's not fair for you to be-little such a real and growing problem with the phrase "bunch of crap."

Here's a different perspective. Mid 90's had bulimia - got over it (with new OCD tendencies introduced)and started working out. through the late 90's i would (3 times a day) take ephedrine, aspirin, and caffeine pill. Then I did steroids on top of that from 98 - 00. Once ephedrine was made illegal i switched to crystal meth for 1 year. every day except for the 3 day sleeping binges here and there. after i quit that - i went back to legal thermogenics every day like Xenadrine. Then I started adding Cocaine occasionally. To say i like to be 'sped' up is an understatement. I stopped ALL that in around 2005.

Come to now - I have anxiety, depression, OCD tendancies. ok fine. 20mg paxil per day for a few months. helps a little but sexual dysfunction. research says try Wellbutrin. I do. BAM. Next day - I have great energy like i haven't had in years - and anxiety is gone - it was great! that lasted for 2 weeks at 150mg of Wellbutrin. It was so good I asked for 300mg and started those. Within 2 days everything was gone. anxious again, no energy.

I went back to my 150mg Wellbutrin and nothing... I was so angry.

More research says Adderall for energy. I read all the horror and addiction stories. But I am not living forever with how i feel at the time - no way I can stay like that.

Get Adderall XR10mg. take it next morning with Wellbutin and BAM - everything is back! Energy, not anxious, confident. I was underwhelmed in the sense that it is nothing like real crystal meth, and to me - feels more like the come down of cocaine. but still - was feeling good!

For one week. then just nothing. I tried taking 20mg of Adderall and it was horrible. just made me sketchy and this time feeling like a bad come down from hard drugs. no good.

Appetite is not an issue for me since i am OCD about food - so even when i am not hungry i still eat my meals at the correct times etc... so i might lose weight, we'll see.

However - the adderall DOES greatly improve my strength at the gym. I still go religiously and have added 30 pound to my bench press that first week - and have kept it going.

SO as of tomorrow I think I will just try Wellbutrin again and see what happens. Anyways - I have the absolutely most addictive personalty in the world - i mean - my doctor had no reason to give me adderall and didn't want to but my 'inner fiend' came out telling him i used to have add at school when i was little etc.... i just needed to really see if it was as addictive as the web stories say - and for anyone that has done real meth for any long amount of time - it is not. So don't consider it a legal replacement.

I will continue to play with the doses as I did have a few weeks that were a total success and hope i can get that back...

If anything I will keep the Adderall for energy - like if i ever need to go dancing or some outdoor exercise - but otherwise it's not for me.

I had been taking 300mg Welbutrin and 20mg Adderal for about two weeks. Last Saturday I had a seizure at the lake. I'm 31 and have never had a seizure in my life. It scared the hell out of my husband and everyone else. I was at a family reunion at the time. I ended up in the ER for a night. They told me it was the combination of the meds, plus the summer heat. No permanent damage but I do have to see the doc and change my meds. It was nice while the meds were working. I was able to have a cohesive conversation/argument with my mother and get more involved with what my kids were doing. You gotta understand, people like me dont want these medications to get high or lose weight. We need them to function in the world, so that we can be good mothers and fathers and wives and husbands. It isn't about a lack of energy, Its a lack of mental togetherness.

quaglia wrote:

I would like to know more about the medicines Adderall and Wellbutrin. My parents are using these drugs and I am worried about them. They are old and sometimes not aware that they have taken the wrong drug. Is it dangerous to take Adderall with Wellbutrin.

in my late teens i was prescribed a combination of adderall and wellbutrin [agreed upon by a small group of doctors i was seeing] to treat my combination of ADHD and depression. these two medications not only do *not* have negative interaction, but doctors seem to agree that they compliment one another, working well together.

Im a 26 yr old female. This is my experience. I was taking ritilin for about 18 years when it stopped working very well. Its extended dose lasted me about 3 hours total. When on ritilin I always battled with my weight but my ADD was handled well. I agree with the other people that ADD is serious and very hard to live with. So dont say that we need to get off our meds! In my sophmore year of college a friend convinced me I didnt need my meds and I tried stopping. First off you dont stop a controlled substance like adderall or ritilin cold turkey. And second I had been a straight a student my whole life.. and without ritilin I got my first D. So dont offer up advice about needing meds... The horrid feeling of lack of concentration is infuriating...its not something you can just live with! Ok well I started having depression issues so my doc prescribed welbutrin. So I was taking 40mg of ritilin twice a day and 150 mg of welbutrin as well. Those two in combination worked out fine for me. Then when ritilin got to the point that it was only lasting 3 hours my doc changed me to adderall. After adjusting the dosing a bit I am now on the extended Adderall 40mg a day once a day. The adderall itself is ok. I take it at 1030 in the morning and it lasts till about 330 or so. I think I prefer ritilin, but im not sure anymore. The adderall did wonders for my weight. I immediately lost 20lbs when I started taking it, but I also seem to not be able to get aroused sexually like I used to. Well I had laid off the welbutrin for a bit so we could see how just the adderall would affect me. I went back to Welbutrin and I had a very weird side effect. Nightmares. To the point that it was like night terror. I would wake up from the most horrific nightmares Ive ever had in my life. So I dropped the Welbutrin and I slept nightmare free. Tried the welbutrin again.. Horrid Nightmares. So I cant take the two together... But I know that they work for other people. As far as my ADD goes I dont know what to do anymore. Ritilin only lasts so long, Adderall keeps me from sleeping well (I dont sleep till like 2am) and I cant seem to get aroused even though im in a relatively new relationship and shouldnt be having problems. My short term memory has never been great. I can walk into a room and forget what I walked in for all the time. I constantly write notes to remind myself of things and then forget them anyway. Is there anyone out there in my situation that has found something that works for them? Im thinking about just going back to ritilin....