Getting off of Welbutrin & Prenatal Vitamins

[Lostri]

Hi,
I am new to this site and some of the Q & A's I read here helped so hopefully my Q will help someone else.
I was put on Wellbutrin 150mg about five months ago.  I had a four month old baby (not much sleep at night) and a very stressful time at work.  The medicine worked for me but I would like to get off of it.  I just never was one to take a lot of medicine.  My doctor advised taking it every other day and so try to wean off of it.

I started taking it every other day  and at the same time I stopped breastfeeding and and completely stopped taking my prenatal vitamins.

This weekend I have been feeling very tired, body aches, even my gums & teeth hurt.

I was wandering if anyone else had experience trying to stop all of it at once or any ideas what could be making me so tired/achey?
Also can you revert to taking Wellbutrin everyday if you see that quitting is not working very well?

[Paxiled]

These meds can be difficult to stop.  They alter brain chemistry, and when you stop the body had to adjust and start doing things it stopped doing because of the medication.  Then there are the intense withdrawal meds, but wellbutrin isn't known for being that intense.  But each of us is different.  At any rate, all of them should be tapered off of slowly, and recognize that your body will take time to adapt.  Also recognize that the drug didn't cure you, it just tamped down your symptoms, and if you haven't found a cure through therapy or time, you'll still have the problem but it might seem worse because you've had the experience of having it controlled by the medication.  If there's a cure for you, it's in therapy, and the better your underlying condition gets, the easier it will be to quit a medication.

[trkergrl]

i have taken wellbutrin xl 150 for a while now. i also wanted to get off of them because they are so expensive, my dr. said the same thing about weening off of them will i made it about 2 weeks of 2 one day and 1 the next i thought i was losing my mind so i went back to 2 a day. My husband is glad i went back on he said i was a mega B.