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  <title>ADHD and Marriage</title>
  <subtitle>Learning how to thrive in your relationship</subtitle>
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    <title>Modafinil and Buproprion</title>
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    <published>2008-06-30T00:44:11-04:00</published>
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      <name>griwei</name>
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    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Using both Modafinil and Buproprion?</p>
<p>Diagnosed a little more than a year ago, at 39.  Concerta and Adderall both posed dysthymic side effects, even when the latter was paired with Wellbutrin.  The Wellbutrin definitely helped impulsiveness too.</p>
<p>In Canada, we're still awaiting the newer stimulant formulations.  We do have access to Provigil (Alertec), however.  I have the psychiatrist's blessing to start a trial while we wait for other stimulant choices, but what I want to know is whether I can keep the Wellbutrin (maybe lowered to 150mg/d from 300mg/d).</p>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Using both Modafinil and Buproprion?</p>
<p>Diagnosed a little more than a year ago, at 39.  Concerta and Adderall both posed dysthymic side effects, even when the latter was paired with Wellbutrin.  The Wellbutrin definitely helped impulsiveness too.</p>
<p>In Canada, we're still awaiting the newer stimulant formulations.  We do have access to Provigil (Alertec), however.  I have the psychiatrist's blessing to start a trial while we wait for other stimulant choices, but what I want to know is whether I can keep the Wellbutrin (maybe lowered to 150mg/d from 300mg/d).</p>
<p>Anybody familiar with taking both of these drugs for combination ADHD without any comorbid conditions or disorders?  I understand that they may interact in a manner so as to increase each others potency, but if I'm starting on the lower 100mcg/d dose of Modafinil and the lower dose of Buproprion, I don't see that as much of a problem.</p>
<p>I should mention that my curiosity is led by the fact that the psychiatrist doesn't write the prescriptions.  He just sends a letter to my GP and we discuss where to go from there.  The green light came last week and the drugs start next week, after a baseline liver number has been established (and I've dropped the Wellbutrin, either to 150/d or zero).</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
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