StellaFree: What causes motility issues from Bupoprion?

[StellaFree]

Hello, 

I really am living in a medicated hell. I have been suffering from severe constipation that I believe has been caused by years of bupoprion use. I am trying to taper off this drug and it's been really hard. Does anyone know what can help my nervous system get back to normal. I am beyond needing the standard advice of fiber, water, exercise, magnesium, etc.. This is a nerve issue. I have had a lot of tests and seen functional medicine doctors, but nobody hooks it up back to my AD because I think doctors want to keep people on their drugs. Anyways, if anyone has any insight in Wellbutrin or bupoprion and how to recover from it, I would be so grateful. 

Edited September 26 by FireflyFyte
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[FireflyFyte]

Hi StellaFree,

 

Welcome to SA. Please summarize your drug history in your signature by following the instructions at How to Summarize Your Drug History in Your Signature.

 

We have information on tapering Wellbutrin at Tips for tapering off bupropion (Wellbutrin, IR, SR, XR, XL, Zyban).

 

You can search the forums for topics related to people's journeys tapering from Wellbutrin.

 

Thanks,

 

Firefly

[BaccatePlayer]

13 hours ago, StellaFree said:

Hello, 

I really am living in a medicated hell. I have been suffering from severe constipation that I believe has been caused by years of bupoprion use. I am trying to taper off this drug and it's been really hard. Does anyone know what can help my nervous system get back to normal. I am beyond needing the standard advice of fiber, water, exercise, magnesium, etc.. This is a nerve issue. I have had a lot of tests and seen functional medicine doctors, but nobody hooks it up back to my AD because I think doctors want to keep people on their drugs. Anyways, if anyone has any insight in Wellbutrin or bupoprion and how to recover from it, I would be so grateful. 

Hi Stella! I'm truly sorry for what happened to you. Many of us faced poor understanding on psychiatric drugs effects from doctors, but we believe you. The taper needs to be very slow, and potentially getting slower and slower as the dose decrease. Sometimes you may also need to hold your current dose for some time to gain some stability. Good news is that, you can do this. You can successfully get off bupropion scot free and recover from any withdrawal symptoms. Sadly, there's no real cure for any of the issues caused by these meds. If test show no source of your struggles, then it's likely caused by instable CNS. This can very well result in all kinds of digestive system issues. You are giving yourself a chance to recover by slowly coming off bupropion. For now, you may want to explore drug-free coping techniques on this site and get to know the tapering guidelines. Wishing you luck!

[StellaFree]

Thank you for responding. What causes CNS crash? I do feel like I have respiratory, dizziness, blood pressure issues and often get a hunch that my gut motility problems are from circulation problems. I don't know. What thread should I look at for repairing CNS issues? 

[BaccatePlayer]

1 hour ago, StellaFree said:

Thank you for responding. What causes CNS crash? I do feel like I have respiratory, dizziness, blood pressure issues and often get a hunch that my gut motility problems are from circulation problems. I don't know. What thread should I look at for repairing CNS issues? 

It's usually unfortunate drug interaction. Making too many changes, too often, stopping meds or lowering dose, sometimes taking the first dose. The whole withdrawal or adverse reaction experience is one big oversensitivity of nervous system. We don't have exact science, but years of observations here point out to users seeing slow improvement as they come off the meds. There are topics like "What's happening in my brain" here, but they explain how symptoms may be related to some understandable processes more than they serve as some guideline. Symptoms can change, their intensity also changes in unpredictable manner, but we don't have any solutions to them. CNS has to find its way to self-regulate. It overreacts, but it's not as simple as "calm it down" to make it work properly. Various users have tried mind altering substances, but they never worked as "fixes". We approach it like BIND (benzodiazepine induced neurological dysfunction) which, like any neurological injury heals via rehab. You provide your body safe enviroment, which in this case is a drug-free routine and let it adapt to it. It usually takes many months, sometimes even years, but most see full or near full recovery. The key is to see symptoms as a part of CNS trying to balance receptors sensitivity. They aren't dangerous, they won't take your sanity away and most importantly, they don't call for reaction. The signaling system sends false alarms, but as you can see, the test show nothing. These aren't issues of given body parts or systems, they have one source which is dysregulated CNS and if they're on 80% intensity, they'll be all like this, but when they drop to 0%, they'll also cease together. There are some ways to help you stay as little activated as possible like meditation, epsom salt baths, brain retraining programs, but there's no other cure than giving it time. The fact that we are experiencing these abnormalities is a sign that our brain is set for restoring its homeosthasis, however we never found a way to accelerate that process other than avoiding unneccessary upsets (basically common sense stress management). Whoever here suffers long-term symptoms caused by psychiatric drugs is facing this CNS instability, so you may look around to see how people are coping (cause they can't fix it) with them, potentially best by typing the given issue in search bar and visiting threads.