Possible Seizure?
Hi, I’m 29 and I started taking bupropion about two weeks ago. I started on the 75 mg dose for ~2 days but my insomnia was so bad that I basically wasn’t sleeping at all. Stopped for two days until I could talk with doctor who said it would be okay to cut pills in half and start at ~37.5 for about a week. I just upped to taking the full 75 mg pills 4 days ago.
Yesterday, while out with some family members, I was pressured to have a drink. I was warned that the med reacts bad with alcohol and increases seizure risk, but I’ve never had a risk of a seizure and no one on either side of my family has ever had one and I don’t tend to have much of a reaction to alcohol. I got a sun cruiser and figured I’d have 3-4 sips while we waited for our food to come and lay off if it didn’t feel right.
5-10 minutes later, I was telling a story while waving my hands and I think I blipped out for 1-2 seconds. The next thing I knew, both my arms had jerked so dramatically that I knocked my can into one of my family members and felt like I partially dislocated one of my shoulders. My shoulder seemed to snap back into place after a few seconds. I felt kind of spacey and weird for about a minute but helped clean up the mess.
I am prone to migraines with aura where I lose vision in one eye or get blind spots. They are triggered by changes in barometric pressure. I proceeded to spend the next 1.5 hours getting multiple blind spots and feeling kind of tingly. Once I could tell the alcohol was out of my system, I completely reverted back to normal.
I’m worried this was a seizure and if I responded this severely to less than 1/4 of a single drink, I may be too sensitive to this medication and should explore other options. I have a follow up with my doctor next week and I’m going to tell him everything then. Until then, has anyone else experienced anything like this? When I was reading about bupropion I saw that the chance for a seizure was 0.04% at a high dose like 300 mg or 450, so I thought a few sips at 75 mg was not recommended but not terribly risky, but I’m pretty scared right now.