Edmunds: prolonged Wellbutrin withdrawal

[Edmunds]

Thanks again to @Altostrata and @ChessieCat for your recent support.

 

I spoke to the integrative psychiatrist I've consulted with a few times. I would like to report to SA the conversation I had with him this morning. I would appreciate any comment on this conversation you would care to offer, though you may not wish to, which is fine. You have always been clear that members must make their own medical decisions.

 

This psychiatrist is entirely in agreement with my desire to stay off any new ADs and to taper slowly from the 2 mgs of liquid fluoxetine I'm currently taking. I told him that SA recommends only magnesium and omega-3 as supplements. I told him that I take them, plus D-3 and Inositol (the later recommended by him). He disagrees with the magnesium and omega-3 limitation. Rather he recommends that to help with my constant anxiety I should consider taking two supplements:

ashwaganda, especially for cortisol regulation, and 60 ml of CBD. (I tried CBD briefly a couple of years ago, though without effect one way or the other). I told him I am loathe to taking any substance, including supplements, that is just going to set my recovery back. He believes that that should not happen. He has consistently deferred to my wishes and takes a very different and much more flexible approach than any mainstream psych I've consulted in the past, all of whom have nothing on offer but ADs.

[Altostrata]

We can't predict how you will react to ashwaganda or CBD. Suggest you sample them one at a time in very small amounts.

[Edmunds]

@AltostrataThanks for your advice about ashwaganda and CBD. I will try the ashwaganda at 1/2 caplet per day. I will defer the CBD for how.

 

I must add thanks to you for helping organize and participating in the protracted withdrawal seminar this morning. It was excellent, and I look forward to the next session in March. Also, I shared the articles in Therapeutic Advances and Psychology Today with my integrative psychiatrist.