nikkikole Tapering from 10mg Celexa & 75mg Bupropion

[nikkikole]

I'm taking the following:

 

10mg celexa for 2 years

75mg Bupropion for 1 year

 

I want to taper off of both and am so pleased to have this forum for reference! Thank You!

 

My dosages are low so please advise if I can do it faster or differently:

 

Celexa - going to do the liquid solution of 20ml and take half each day for 1st month, take 1 quarter each day 2nd month.  I know you don't suggest alternating days so what shall I do after the 2nd month?

 

My concern is the solution going bad as it will take 4 days to get through 1 10mg pill by the 2nd month.

 

Bupropion - Going to cut into quarters, reducing 1 quarter every 3 weeks until completely off

 

Thank you for your help!

[Petunia]

Hi Nikkikole,

Welcome, I'm glad you found us.  What you are suggesting does not sound like a safe tapering plan.  Please would you start a topic for yourself in our introductions and updates section here:

 

http://survivingantidepressants.org/index.php?/forum/3-introductions-and-updates/

 

We will be able to answer your questions and provide better ongoing support if you have your own thread.

 

Petu.

[nikkikole]

Hi,  I'm very happy to have found this support group! Thank you for providing it!

 

I would like to taper from celexa and Bupropion and would appreciate any help.

 

10mg celexa - 2 yrs for deression

75mg Bupropion - 1 yr. to balance sexual side effects from celexa - increase energy

 

Thank you for your time and help!

[nikkikole]

Thank you, new thread created.  : )  Tapering celexa & bupropion...

[Altostrata]

Welcome, nikkikole.

 

I agree, your tapering plan seems too fast.

 

Why was the bupropion added to Celexa?

[Petunia]

We recommend using the risk reduction method of tapering by 10% per month, and only one drug at a time, this way, you minimize withdrawal symptoms and there is less disruption to your life as you safely taper and become medication free.

 

We usually suggest tapering the most activating drug first, in your case, that would be the buproprion (wellbutrin), but because of the reason it was added - for sexual side effects and to increase energy, I'm not sure, perhaps it would be better to start decreasing the celexa first to get the dose lower to decrease the side effects and then switch to tapering off the buproprion.

 

Are you experiencing any anxiety or sleep problems?

 

Here are our threads with tips for safely tapering from celexa and wellbutrin:

 

http://survivingantidepressants.org/index.php?/topic/2023-tips-for-tapering-off-celexa-citalopram/

 

http://survivingantidepressants.org/index.php?/topic/877-tips-for-tapering-off-wellbutrin-sr-xr-xl-buproprion/

[nikkikole]

@Altostrata:  75mg Bupropion - 1 yr. to balance sexual side effects from celexa - increase energy

 

@ Petu: I agree to lower the celexa if I can not do both at the same time.   No anxiety.  No sleep problems...in fact...sleepy quite a bit but I'm pretty sure it's due to stress.  I do bookkeeping for our business that is run with my husband and recently took on position as department head with a gym fitness program which I also instruct.  I go to class in the morning...come home and try to focus and work...most often times end of taking a 3 hour nap.  I've also started taking Product B from Isagenix because those I know have been able to stop taking their depressions meds while on it.

I wouldn't normally venture into such a scheme but am hopeful.

 

Also I've cycled through a lot of baggage in counseling and feel I am in a much better place!   : )

 

So if I maintain my dosage of 75mg Bupropion and decrease my dosage of celexa by 10% each month...until completely off would that be sufficient?  Next I could concentrate on decreasing the Bupropion.

[Rhiannon]

Nikki, your plan for reducing Celexa would work, but alternatively you could also reduce the Celexa for a while, say to 5 mg or so, and then reduce the bupropion for a while in order to minimize the problems of overactivation that it can produce. I personally am a fan of taking meds down this way rather than one all the way while still on full doses of another one.

 

I found the side effects of Celexa really began to noticeably improve for me at around 3 mg (I came down from 10 also).

 

Please put a brief description of your drug history into your sig line, like this: http://survivingantidepressants.org/index.php?/topic/893-please-put-your-withdrawal-history-in-your-signature/

 

I'd recommend next reading through the topics in the Tapering section, if you haven't already, and following the links provided there.

 

Welcome to the forum. You can get the information and support here that you need to reduce your meds or come off them, safely.