Fluoxetine (+ Buproprion) killed my depression

Hi people,

I was active here before, end of last year and beginning of this year. My deep depression began October last year. When I say deep I mean I would kill myself if for some reason I knew that I would feel those feelings for longer.

I started with 20 mg of fluoxetine which didn't do much for the first month. Increased to 40 mg and I started to feel a bit better after two months. I increased again to 60 mg and then it finally get rid of my darkest thoughts. However, I was left with no motivation and sleepy all the time, at which point I was prescribed 300 mg of buproprion to augment my regiment (unfortunately GPs in UK don't pescribe buproprion for depression... you would need a specialist). That is a very effect medication of the kind of depression that makes you sleepy, feel like not doing anything, vegetating.

The above regiment (60 mg of fluoxetine + 300 mg of buproprion) killed my depression. I would say 100% off depression.

Fast forward 26th of July and I'm now on only 20 mg of fluoxetine + 150 mg of buproprion with no symptoms whatsover of depression.

This is my short story of depression and I would like to share with you because this forum helped me so much. Don't lose hope because depression can be defeated.

Danilo

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