Author: Kitty36

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 7:21 am

Thanks for the reply! I think I’ve lost all faith in my doctor. When I told him about the extreme tiredness, he told me I was depressed. I said I’m not sad, just really tired. He insisted it was depression and prescribed me Wellbutrin, which is supposed to give you energy. In the five weeks I’ve been taking it, I actually do feel depressed now, and really moody. But I’ve had experience with antidepressants, so I know it can take about two months to start working. Still, I wanted to discuss this with my doc at my visit last week. However, as soon as I sat down he tells me my urine test was dirty, for amphetamines. I don’t take amphetamines, never have. I ask if it could be the Wellbutrin, since that’s the only thing different from every other month. He says absolutely not. He says it may be a lab error, but if it happens again he won’t be able to treat me anymore. I completely lost it, started crying and hyperventilating, which is not normal for me. I tell him I’m actually doing everything right, taking only what he’s prescribed. I tell him I feel like shit, all the time, so tired I was falling asleep in the waiting room, so tired I can barely make the 8 minute drive home from work, and you’re telling me I’m on amphetamines?! He didn’t say much, other than babbling about the DEA and him getting in trouble. He gave me my scripts and said hopefully the next urine test will be clean. As soon as I got home I googled Wellbutrin and false positives, and there’s like a million links. Apparently that’s a well known problem. I discovered it even said so in my medication guide from the pharmacy..Wellbutrin is known to cause false positives for amphetamines in urine drug screenings. How could my doctor not know this? He’s a psychiatrist. He had to know this, yet he let me sit there having a breakdown over this and didn’t say a word. So I really lost a lot of respect for him. But finding another doctor who takes insurance and works around me and my husband’s work schedules is probably impossible. So anyway, I think I’ll rely on information from this forum, because I trust what people here say, more than my doctor. He still wants me on 16mg a day. I’ve been taking 10mg the past four days and plan on trying to get even lower over the next week and a half, while I’m off from work. I think it’s helped a little. I was actually able to sit and read a book without nodding out. That’s definite improvement! I think I feel better too, now that I’ve vented about my doctor. That’s had me beyond pissed for the past week. So again, to anyone reading this, thanks for all the information you provide on this forum. It’s been really helpful