Creatine and Wellbutrin. Bad mix??????? B

[youngdude421]

I have been on Wellbutrin for years. I use the gym as a great outlet for my anxiety/depression. I've recently used creatine supplements to help me workout. I work crazy hours and have a very busy life and that "boost" helps me get my workout in. But I've had some bad reactions. Including severe anxiety, paranoia, twitching. This only happens when I take certain creatine supplements. I am very sensitive to stimulants.  I love the physical push I get but its not worth the terrible reaction I don't think. Any feedback or experience would be welcomed. Has anyone else gone through this???

[JohnnyMitchelll]

The creatine is doing absolutely nothing to make you anxious, paranoid etc. It is most likely the stimulants in whatever supplements you're taking. A lot of creatine powders double as a pre-workout with stimulants which would explain why some make you feel bad and some don't. I'd suggest taking a NO based pre workout without any stimulants and then take a creatine mono hydrate powder with no stimulants.

Good luck

[JohnnyMitchelll]

+ drink more water when taking creatine

[Paxiled]

This sounds like a question asked in a different forum, but the real question to be answered is, why are you taking creatine?  I believe when this question was asked before, one responder mentioned one person suffered anxiety after taking it.  Not much of a sample, but the only reason to take creatine, really, is if you're competing professionally and this will help you to do better.  But for most people, creatine isn't stimulating, it's to build bigger muscles, if you believe the advertising.  Too much is bad for you.  But your supplements probably have other things in them than just creatine, and those other things might be too stimulating for you.  Exercise, if it isn't going to end up paying you a lot of money, should be for the exercise, and you don't need creatine for that -- you sound like your schedule is causing you to work out when you're tired.  When you're young, or at least when I was young, the workout itself caused me to get energized even if I was tired, especially aerobic exercise.  But I'd suggest you just try very nutritious foods that won't slow you down, such as spirulina, bee pollen, or other "super" foods.  Get your protein, because if you're taking creatine I suspect you're a bodybuilder.  And skip the creatine, again, if you're not competing for anything -- natural exercise is fine, and will also allow you to listen to your body telling you, not today, I'm too tired to do this without injury.