Side Effects Again

The current drug I am taking is Wellbutrin.  When I started it early this year it was such a relief from the horrors of Lexapro (see Lexapro withdrawal post).  But a curious thing happened I started to get canker sores in my mouth.  This is one of those health problems with a lot of potential causes.  However, dry mouth and stress are the leaders.  I first thought it was stress.  But as time has gone on (8 months) and the problem just has not gotten better I decided to check the side effects of the medicines I was taking.  Guess what?  Alot of anti depressives, including Wellbutrin, have dry mouth as a side effect.  So as an experiment I am slowly reducing my Wellbutrin dose.  As I have reduced the Wellbutrin my mouth problem have not gotten worse but somewhere in between.   So today I am going off Wellbutrin to see if that is the culprit.  I am going naked.  What is so scary is most anti depressives have this side effect.  Am I going off a cliff or will Meditation, mindfulness and other non medication activities sufficiently replace the anti depression medicine?

Update:  I did sort go off the cliff and my doctor had me start a new drug that puts on weigh.  Ten pounds later I have established that wellbutrin was not causing the cankor sores.  It was my emotional state…what a surprize.  Now I am back on wellbrutrin and hopefully will get that ten pounds off.  This is all such fun!!!!!!