Is there a way to get rid of bad hangovers from drinking alcohol while being on Wellbutrin and Prozac? Help.?
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Hon, you shouldn't drink alcohol while on those types of drugs anyway. If you are feeling really bad, go to the ER. They can help you more than anyone here can.
1113891
Heres a tip that might help - most alcoholics are deficient in B vitamins. If you stop drinking it would be a really good idea to take a B complex (must be a complex) vitamin each day for a little while. This will help with depression and mood swings, which you will probably encounter.
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wellbutrin but you have to be careful cuz it is also a anti-depressent everyone who was depressed and took it ended up stop smoking also a really weird thing to do is get your mind to thing of something that tastes bad when you smoke. think of it to the point to where everytime you inhail you taste that. trust me it works. i have done that and everytime i try to smoke now i instintly want to puke.
164508
I'm afraid you can't do much NOW, since you already have the actual hangover. But theoretically, if you drank enough water before drinking alcohal, then you won't get as dehydrated and thus, may be able to avoid the hangover. However, to COMPLETELY avoid it would take a lot of water.
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I have been on and off soo many different medications over the past 7 years, Wellbutrin being one.  The first time around that I took wellbutrin it did wonders for me and I had no side effects except maybe a little weight loss.  I took it for depression and it also helped with ADHD.  It wasn't an immediate difference that made me all of a sudden happy about life but it hit me all at once along the way and i looked back and realized how much wellbutrin had helped me.  I was happy.  I was positive (which you have to take part in trying to get that mindset) and I noticed I hadn't been sad/down or upset about anything in months.  It was one of my favorite and most successful medications.\n  .....I eventually came off of it (b/c Dr. felt it wasnt needed since i was happy and content) and went back on and off other drugs later on when I fell back into depression.  This past year I tried Wellbutrin XL (there is a difference) and it had no effect on me at all, which was obviously no help at all.\n\nZoloft and Paxil I have heard positives AND negatives about.  They are both under the same category SSRI's and so they are both very similar in how they work and you'll most likely have similar side effects from both.  Prozac is also in the same category and in my own personal experience, I will NEVER take another drug in that category because it did exactly the opposite of what it was supposed to.  It really jsut depends on the person tho.  Its trial and error and everyones body reacts differently to different drugs.  \n\nI would lean towards the wellbutrin for you though....especially if you havent ever been on an antidepressant.  also, ive heard more negatives from other and worse side effects from zoloft and paxil.  Wellbutrin tends to not have much of any after the first 2 days (and i only had nausea).  Just dont take it on an empty stomach.  and if anything, instead of a decrease in sex drive like most other antidepressants, ive heard many stories of an increase in it from wellbutrin!  (always a plus).  Good luck!
502353
first get off the welbutrin before you go crazy and commit suicide... then you can drink whatever you want.... i dont think you need welbutrin to get over depression... what you need is a challenge like a marathon...
147231
I still drank on prozac, zoloft, paxil, and wellbutrin (different times) Women smoke on birth control pills. same thing. are you willing to take the risk? Alcohol isn't good for you anyway, probably best not to drink at all.
48054
I heard of one person who had a problem with their liver and couldn't break down alchohol like most people. It stayed in his system much longer.\n\nA hangover is from dehydration. You must be getting enough liquids besides booze to not get it.
675671
yes i just stopped taking it last month. i had a terrible feeling like a bad hangover for about a week.
572412
Every culture and every individual has a hangover cure.  There are lots of interesting variations but a few basics are always the same.\n\nFirst of all alcohol makes you pee a lot. In fact you pee out more than you take in causing you to lose fluids and become dehydrated.  Thats why your tongue feels dry and it will give you a headache.\n\nThe first thing you should do is drink lots of water, and better still is do it before you go to sleep.  If you really want to slow down that hangover, alternate a glass of water in-between your alcoholic drinks.\n\nThe other thing is that you lose water soluble vitamins along with the water.  A good multi vitamin or just a good meal rich in vitamins will help (depending on how much you can keep down, maybe a multi-vite when your tummy is a bit upset)\n\nAlcohol is fun but its also a toxin and causes direct damage to the body in addition to the dehydration.  Protein helps to metabolize the alcohol and repair the damage.  A meal high in protein often helps.\n\nI find that exercise often helps too.  It might feel very very uncomfortable getting started but once you break a sweat most times, you'll feel better.  A sauna can help too but make sure you drink enough fluids.\n\nA more local remedy is to jump off a cliff into the local canyon with its icy cold glacier fed water.  If you survive, your hangover is long gone in an instant.\n\nIn Korea its a shot of alcohol with hot peppers.  Actually Koreans, who are hard-core drinkers, often have hot spicy fish soup while they are drinking.  This is strange for us Westerners but it makes a lot of sense when you think about hangovers.
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I hate to this, but you need to get back on your meds. I know it sucks, I know you might have some unpleasant side effects, but the hassles involved with the meds are better than the hassles stemming from the illness. I had a  roomate that had some of the same symptoms. His meds made him shake. So he would get off his meds and would deteriorate radiply. Your still young, I want you to remember this, with your condition, you are susceptible to alcoholism and drug addiction. I don't want you to find out the hard way and dig yourself a huge hole that will be hard to get out of. Please talk to someone close to you that can help. I'm changing my profile to allow you to email me for 48 hours if I can help further. i wish you the best.
345698
Part of the reason alcohol gives hangovers is that it dehydrates the body.  Be sure to drink a lot of water.
69656
While there are lots of recipes for hangover, there are even more studies that prove NOTHING works to cure a hangover. Just drink lots of water and wait it out baby.
933023
take some tynenol and rest. but i heard smoking weed cures a hangover.. but thats just hear say.
542243
Prozac is a good antidepressant.  It does have a number of side effects that can be annoying.  Things like dry mouth, difficulty climaxing, constipation, and difficulty sleeping are common.  I found that they were side effects I could live with since it helped the depression so much.  I did feel better when my doc also added Wellbutin.  The two worked well together and I had a lot more energy.
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Don't listen to what that other person said and try drinking, for christ's sake.  That's not going to help you and it might make you even more manic.  Whether you want to or not, you need to admit that you might be bipolar.  There are online assessment tests for this kind of thing.  I'm providing you with a link to one of them.  Just be honest with the questions when you take it, no one is going to know what you got except you.  It is not meant to be an online diagnosis, just an evaluation in your own mind that might give you some idea of if this is a problem in your life and how it's impacting you.\n\nThere are a few herbal things you can take.  For one thing you might try a GABA supplement.  You can buy it at vitaminshoppe.com or from GNC or a health food store.  It will help to calm you...I've found it works wonders for me.  St. John's Wort is often suggested to combat depression, but there has been increasing evidence that it is NOT good for people who are bipolar, so I would suggest you strongly avoid any recommendations to try it.  A lot of doctors DO recommend that you try taking Omega 3 fish oil.  It has been shown in studies to be quite promising in the treatment of bipolar.  In the meantime it is great for you to continue to exercise and keep up with your regular diet of eating healthy foods.\n\nHere's what one person had to say about fish oil: "I have started taking Omega-3 fish oils to help me with my bipolar disorder. I am currently taking a total of 9000 mgs per day broken up into 3 doses. I found out about them from a doctor here in Massachusetts at one of the country's leading psychiatric facilities, McLean Hospital in Belmont, Ma."\n\nMake sure that you aren't taking cod liver oil--this can be toxic in large doses.  You also should take it with vitamins C and E.\n\nHowever, please just keep in mind that whatever you might think about mental disorders it is a chemical imbalance in the brain, and if these things don't work then your best bet is to take the appropriate medication.  It will even out your moods.  Please at least give it some consideration and think about seeing a doctor.  \n\nI wish you the best of luck.
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Certainly tell your doctor about this. I have taken Wellbutrin but after a month had to go off it, it was making me "crazy". I had no physical side effects with it, only emotional ones. But you should speak to your doctor about this hon, he's the expert not us.