Yesterday was pretty bad, and today hasn't started off too well, either.
On the 20th I started taking half the dose of Wellbutrin I had been taking, as I discussed with my psychiatrist, in the hopes of eventually not taking any. Everything seemed to be going fine until yesterday. I noticed early in the day that I was kind of hyper, which is never a good sign. It was getting worse and worse until I was manic. But it didn't stop there! I started to feel physically ill, feeling extremely dizzy, nauseated, and sore.
I'm pretty sure I would have thrown up if I hadn't had my "miracle soup", as I call it. It's just Knorr vegetarian vegetable broth, but it works wonders when I feel sick. I called my psychiatrist and when he called back he said it was very good that I had the soup. It helps to stay hydrated, and also the sodium in the soup is helpful.
He basically felt (as MollyMolly and I realized beforehand) that I was experiencing withdrawals. This happened before when I was stopping another medicine some time a year or so ago, and I threw up a bunch of times then.
But then I discovered the miracle soup and the vomiting stopped.
I don't know if I'm going to experience the same thing again later today, or what. I hope not. But the soup really helped me feel a lot better, so I can have some as a preventative measure.
But it gets worse! This morning, I woke up at about 6 with an extremely painful, swollen throat. I felt just like that "it'll hurt if I swallow!" girl in that kid's cough syrup commercial from the '80s that I can't find on YouTube. Mom has been suffering from a pretty bad cold since last week, and I hoped my immune system would block it. I guess my immune system was weakened by the withdrawals, so I caught it (or maybe I already had it, but my immune system was stronger and fighting it more efficiently).
So now I have a cold, and I may be faced with more withdrawal symptoms later today.
P.S. I'm kind of contemplating changing my screen name to "ILoveLink".
I know name changes can be confusing, though (and maybe moreso now that I've changed my profile picture (which, I hope you will admit, is AWESOME!! 
)), so maybe I should wait a while.
Edit: Well, I did it. I am now "LinkIsMyHero". I bet people will be super-confused now!
On the 20th I started taking half the dose of Wellbutrin I had been taking, as I discussed with my psychiatrist, in the hopes of eventually not taking any. Everything seemed to be going fine until yesterday. I noticed early in the day that I was kind of hyper, which is never a good sign. It was getting worse and worse until I was manic. But it didn't stop there! I started to feel physically ill, feeling extremely dizzy, nauseated, and sore.
I'm pretty sure I would have thrown up if I hadn't had my "miracle soup", as I call it. It's just Knorr vegetarian vegetable broth, but it works wonders when I feel sick. I called my psychiatrist and when he called back he said it was very good that I had the soup. It helps to stay hydrated, and also the sodium in the soup is helpful.
He basically felt (as MollyMolly and I realized beforehand) that I was experiencing withdrawals. This happened before when I was stopping another medicine some time a year or so ago, and I threw up a bunch of times then.
But then I discovered the miracle soup and the vomiting stopped.I don't know if I'm going to experience the same thing again later today, or what. I hope not. But the soup really helped me feel a lot better, so I can have some as a preventative measure.
But it gets worse! This morning, I woke up at about 6 with an extremely painful, swollen throat. I felt just like that "it'll hurt if I swallow!" girl in that kid's cough syrup commercial from the '80s that I can't find on YouTube. Mom has been suffering from a pretty bad cold since last week, and I hoped my immune system would block it. I guess my immune system was weakened by the withdrawals, so I caught it (or maybe I already had it, but my immune system was stronger and fighting it more efficiently).
So now I have a cold, and I may be faced with more withdrawal symptoms later today.
P.S. I'm kind of contemplating changing my screen name to "ILoveLink".
I know name changes can be confusing, though (and maybe moreso now that I've changed my profile picture (which, I hope you will admit, is AWESOME!! )), so maybe I should wait a while.Edit: Well, I did it. I am now "LinkIsMyHero". I bet people will be super-confused now!
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Once I get my degree from this school, I'm going to head straight for grad school (fingers crossed for MIT) where I'm going to focus in Artificial Intelligence; my life's goal is to make a major contribution in this field (and maybe pick up a Nobel prize or something..