Please help me with your experiences

My doctor started me on Wellbutrin 5 months ago. The last time I went back, she added Latuda because I didn't feel like the Wellbutrin was doing anything. All this was added to the 40 mg Celexa I've been on for over 5 years. Here's my problem: I FEEL LIKE crap! I started getting sooooo tired when I started the Wellbutrin. Tired to the point of falling asleep at my desk at work. Now I'm on Latuda and even though it's supposed to make me drowsy at night, it has the OPPOSITE effect. I wires me up. I can't sleep. And when I don't sleep well (at least 7 hours a night) I get angry. Am I angry because of lack of sleep? Or am I angry because the Latuda makes me angry? The Wellbutrin has ZERO effect on me in regards to depression. I feel the Wellbutrin makes me tired and unmotivated.

At this point, I want to get off both the Latuda and the Wellbutrin. I've been on Latuda for only 3 weeks. Wellbutrin for 5 months.

Advice? Opinions? Experiences? Please help!

The way I see it, you're on 3 anti-depressants.

Maybe that's why you "FEEL LIKE Crap!"

Which fits in with what you said in your latest post, or:

"My doctor started me on Wellbutrin 5 months ago. The last time I went back, she added Latuda because I didn't feel like the Wellbutrin was doing anything. All this was added to the 40 mg Celexa I've been on for over 5 years."

1. Wellbutrin, drugs.com says: “Wellbutrin (bupropion) is an antidepressant medication used to treat major depressive disorder and seasonal affective disorder>”

2.: You then said: "she added Latuda because I didn't feel like the Wellbutrin was doing anything."

about Latuda, drugs.com said:

"Latuda (lurasidone) is an antipsychotic medicine. It works by changing the effects of chemicals in the brain.”

“Latuda is also used to treat episodes of depression in adults with bipolar disorder (manic depression).”

It adds: “As monotherapy or adjunctive therapy with either lithium or valproate for the treatment of major depressive disorder associated with bipolar disorder (bipolar depression).”

(If it only treats depression, and you're also manic, where is the "lithium or valproate" which treats mania?)

These are only my views as a bipolar myself. I get my data on the meds from the web, and you may want to check some of these websites, also, such as drugs.com, etc.

3. You say, "All this was added to the 40 mg Celexa I've been on for over 5 years."

It says on net, “Celexa is used to treat depression."

Now, I had a psych. give me an anti-psychotic one time, as I'm sure I mentioned earlier on this same thread, and I thought I was in a torture chamber, and I was. Stelezine.

Then, when you said you were taking an anti-psychotic, Latuda, I thought, well, maybe that guy wasn't trying to destroy me, since you were prescribed an anti-psychotic, also.

So, maybe this anti-psychotic of Latuda is supposed to work with the mania, also.

Then why don't any of the 3 websites I went to say so? They all say Latuda is for depression. You can check that for yourself.

You say: "Am I angry because of lack of sleep? Or am I angry because the Latuda makes me angry?"

No, you're angry because you're hacked off.

You stated: "The Wellbutrin has ZERO effect on me in regards to depression. I feel the Wellbutrin makes me tired and unmotivated.

"At this point, I want to get off both the Latuda and the Wellbutrin. I've been on Latuda for only 3 weeks. Wellbutrin for 5 months."

You said the Abilify was really helping you, but had weight gain. I would give that another look. Or some other such combination.

These are only my opinions as an amateur. You're going to have to decide for yourself.

Let us know how this is going.

Beautiful_Wreck67 said...
My doctor started me on Wellbutrin 5 months ago. The last time I went back, she added Latuda because I didn't feel like the Wellbutrin was doing anything. All this was added to the 40 mg Celexa I've been on for over 5 years. Here's my problem: I FEEL LIKE crap! I started getting sooooo tired when I started the Wellbutrin. Tired to the point of falling asleep at my desk at work. Now I'm on Latuda and even though it's supposed to make me drowsy at night, it has the OPPOSITE effect. I wires me up. I can't sleep. And when I don't sleep well (at least 7 hours a night) I get angry. Am I angry because of lack of sleep? Or am I angry because the Latuda makes me angry? The Wellbutrin has ZERO effect on me in regards to depression. I feel the Wellbutrin makes me tired and unmotivated.

At this point, I want to get off both the Latuda and the Wellbutrin. I've been on Latuda for only 3 weeks. Wellbutrin for 5 months.

Advice? Opinions? Experiences? Please help!

Hi Beautiful_Wreck67,

I've had bipolar for years and it gives me bad anxiety, manic depression besides OCD plus a temper that's a fuse ready to be lighted and took a right cocktail of meds but not in recent years as the psychiatric doctor said it was pointless as nothing was helping but if i was you, i would ask about seeing one as GP's only cover so many areas of certain fields of work.