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Re: Antidepressants vs. Excercise
03/06/07 06:41 AM

Sand

Reged: 12/13/04
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Loc: West Orange, NJ (IBS-D)

Be sure to talk this over with your doctor. Stopping an anti-depressant should be done gradually and under a doctor's supervision. I found this advice:

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How to Stop Taking Wellbutrin / Wellbutrin SR / Wellbutrin XL: Your doctor should be recommending that you reduce your dosage by 100-150mg a day (for the more popular SR and XL forms, 75mg for the immediate release form), every week if you need to stop taking it, if not more slowly than that. Based on the wacky half-lives above. For more information, please see the page on how to safely stop taking these crazy meds.
If you've worked your way up to a particular dosage, it's usually best to spend this many days at the next lowest dosage before going down the next lowest dosage before that and so forth. This is the least sucky way to avoid problems when stopping any psychiatric medication. Presuming you have the option of slowly tapering off them.

The web page this came from is irreverent and not run by medical professionals but I've found it to be straightforward and definite and will at least give you a starting point to begin talking to your doctor.

I imagine it will be important to determine if you are still clinically depressed in which case the anti-depressants are needed for more than your IBS.

I can certainly understand that the meds are making it difficult to get motivated to go to the gym regularly but - since Spring is supposedly almost here - maybe you could start by just taking a walk every day. That would get you gradually into some exercise and then - assuming your doctor believes your going off the meds is feasible - you can slowly increase your exercise level as you slowly decrease your meds.

This process of gradually increasing exercise while you gradually decrease meds will also let you judge the results on your IBS.

HTH. Be sure to talk to your doctor before altering your med schedule. Good luck and let us know how it goes.

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