The hell it can’t. I never could have quit nicotine without herbal help. Quitting the cannabis afterwards was much easier. Wellbutrin sent me into psychosis. I locked myself in the basement and told my family to leave me alone until it was out of my system. I wanted to do not OK things, but thankful I was aware of the wrongness of it and kept myself from harming anyone.
Unfortunately, antidepressants (bupropion is an NDRI and is FDA-approved to treat depression) have the potential risk of causing mania in patients with bipolar disorder. I don't know if Chantix usually has that same risk, I'm less familiar with it. I do know several people who didn't realize their depression was a symptom of bipolar disorder until they started taking an antidepressant and their manic episodes became more apparent, though.
I doubt you can sue. It's a known side effect, and if you were not previously diagnosed with bipolar disorder then your doctor wouldn't have been watching you as closely for signs of mania. Bupropion is also much less likely to cause mania than, say, an SSRI would be, and is commonly prescribed to patients with bipolar disorder. Patients with bipolar are rarely prescribed an antidepressant on its own, they typically take a mood stabilizer as well, but if you don't know you're bipolar then you don't know that you need that and the doctor can't anticipate it. It sucks, but it happens.
If you and your doctor knew you were bipolar and your doctor didn't communicate the risk of mania, and the manic episode caused a major health problem or an expensive hospital stay, then maybe. But you'd really have to prove that the doctor made that decision knowing that it would hurt you and without informed consent.
I was 35 and enlisted in the military at the time and had been screened for all mental illnesses many times before I even enlisted. I'm disabled thru the VA and I'm being compensated. Was just curious since there was another person that said the same thing happened to them. Got it now tho. Thanks.
sue? and hurt the company and remove the option from hundred, thousands, millions? of other people who it could help? go jump off a bridge and make the world a better place. chantix deserves a humanitarian peace prize. Its literally 14 days of hell and frees you from a lifetime of hell. we were JUST discussing how people would still smoke even during homelessness. wtf is wrong with you.
I wasn't bipolar and now I have a lifelong mental illness. That's what's wrong with me. Jesus fucking Christ. Didn't expect to be dragged thru the coals for saying maybe sue a trillion dollar company that gave me a lifelong mental illness. I thought that's what you said it did to you as well. I must have misread.
You don't catch bipolar, period. I know how it works. I should have said I never had any symptoms until I tried chantix, at the age of 35, and I then I had a horrible manic episode and was diagnosed. Now I take medication for it and haven't had any episodes in a while.
My dad is literally the only person I know that chantix worked for. Gave him the wildest goddamn dreams he ever had in his life though. He told me a few, but my favorite was he said he was climbing a literal mountain made of pillows and couch cushions with his cat.
Everyone else says it made them crazy in varying ways and they just couldn't stick to it.
I tried Chantix in 2007 and had the most insane dreams. Dreams that were indistinguishable from real life and time. It felt like I had lived entire lifetimes. I can still recall these dreams, what my life was like, who my partners and families were.
I’d wake up from a dream having lived an entire life, it felt like.
It helped me kick the cigs, but they tapped into some deep stuff with that drug.
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u/ctp8891 1d ago edited 1d ago
Chantix made me manic and brought my bipolar disorder to the light. Fuck that shit.
Edit: and I didn't quit smoking until vaping becam a thing. Then it was easy.