WELLBUTRIN Reviews (BUPROPION HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.2 (1230 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare WELLBUTRIN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR WELLBUTRIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Depression | For the first few weeks, increased insomnia, but the Dr. covered that with Lorazepam at night. Now, I am sleeping without meds to get to sleep. Possible increased libido, another month will tell. Decreased appetite, which is great since I need to lose some weight. | After a very bad 18 months where my son was in intensive care for 3 weeks in a coma and almost died from a traumatic brain injury after his jeep met a tree, then after he was on the road to recovery my husband almost died of a major heart attack at 44 years old, and now has significant heart damage and will be in chronic heart failure in a year or so, I was pretty much a basket case. Always prone to depression anyway, I was on a constant crying jag, and could not take any sort of stress at all. Zoloft wasn't doing the trick. Quick to anger and cry, had to do something. Dr. put me on Wellbutrin XL, now on 300 mg daily. It has been a major benefit. No "flattening" of my emotions as experienced with other anti-depressants, just a major ability to control them. Do not get irritated as easily, the edginess is gone. No drowsiness, I think I am finally getting a libido and I am sleeping for the first time in 18 months. Other than feeling "normal" and not depressed, | F | 51 | 3 months | 10/11/2006 | 5 | Depression | no memory, confusion. | Started out on 300 mg. Confusion was so bad I couldn't remember how to get home from work. Dropped down to 150 mg. works very well now but still have a small amount of depression. | F | 51 | 2 years | 5/4/2006 | 4 | mild depression | Dry mouth initially. Subsided after 3 weeks. Night sweats and hot flashes much worse. Increased sweating. Increased sensitivity to odors. | F | 51 | 2 months | 8/23/2005 | 4 | tired | none | provided a gentler wakeup that provigil | M | 51 | 1 months | 2/24/2008 | 4 | mood swings unable to focus | Dry mouth.slight constipation.i notice a more rapid heartbeat when i increased the dosage to 300 mg first 3 days was 150 mg | F | 51 | 4 days 300 mg | 8/10/2014 | 4 | menopause | M | 51 | 30 days | 8/8/2007 | 3 | Depression and anxiety | I started taking Wellbutrin XL 300 mg. about a year ago because I couldn't tolerate other anti-depressants. For the past several months I have developed back and neck pain and now alot of pain in my legs, as well as sweating. I attributed everything to just older but now I believe it is this medicine. It helped my in the beginning and I also lost 12 pounds which was an added benefit but I just can't take the pain. It also made me so forgetful. I am an RN and have been almost unable to work. I have read that some people have eaten a banana and that helped with the pain. I started eating them and it has amazingly helped. | F | 51 | 1 years | 2/1/2010 | 2 | depression/anxiety | ringing in ears (but this may be suggestion--I studied the side effect profile before beginning the drug and was particularly wary of tinnitus. Didn't notice anything for a few days until I remembered to check and now I've been hearing it since. Could very well be my own hyper-awareness and vigilance rather than a real side effect). | I've been on 150 mg xl for about 10 days. For the first 5 days I actually thought I was feeling better. But the past 3 days I have been getting more depressed and anxious. I'm not sure whether it is the drug or the current stress in my life. I would think 150 mg would be too little to affect one way or the other. | M | 51 | 10 days | 10/26/2005 | 2 | depression | couldn't take more than 33 mg before I had huge headaches and couldn''t sleep. Made me aggressive/grouchy. | F | 51 | 10 months | 7/3/2004 | 1 | Stop smoking | My head feels like the sensation you get when you are almost asleep and something startles you. It's not like that all the time but as the day progresses so does the feeling. By nighttime I,m a mess. I haven't taken any meds for 3 days. When I asked Doctors or Pharmicist they ignor my complaints. You know they are all in with the MED Companies.This medication also, causes belching in the upper throat area and seems to give me more heart burn than normal. This is a ugly drug for me and I will not ever take it again. My wife started taking it an started feeling similar effects and she quit this drug also. | I have quit smoking now for 50 days. I smoked for 37 years. So that is a blessing. I just hope I didn't permenatly damage the cells in my brain. This feeling is hard to deal with. | M | 51 | 9 weeks | 4/19/2007 | 1 | Major Depression | Dizziness, nauseau, insomnia, diarehha, hallucinations, lack of energy, confusion, memory loss. | I think I am loosing my mind. What is it with this med. It's supposed to be helping me but instead I think it is "trying to kill me" :) | F | 51 | 7 days | 5/21/2007 | 1 | wanted to stop smoking | The moodiness crying Baywood as described. Not much help with smoking sedation which was much needed after a surgical fusion. I feel as if it counteracted with medications that were meant to provide comfort. | F | 51 | 2 weeks 150 | 10/5/2014 | 1 | ptsd anxiety | Brain zaps first 4 days. went away day 5 and replaced by bouts of extreme irritation and total lack of tolerance. Stopping it today. I switched from pristiq because I felt nothing but apathy over everything. I left my laundry on the dining room table and used it like a dresser for two weeks. Just didn't care. It was better than this constant agitation | I don't have SAD. And I quite cigs 8 months ago. It made me crave a smoke | F | 51 | 7 days 100mg/d | 2/13/2015 | 5 | GAD/Depression | None. | This has neutralized my GAD and the depression has lessened a great deal. Other meds (Effexor/Pamelor) were not effective. Still have a bit of anhedonia at times, but I recognize it for what it is and move on...eventually things improve. I accomplish more, can maintain my focus and function well in situations that were impossible to deal with before I began to use this medicine. My advice is to give it a chance to work and hang in there. | M | 52 | 7 months | 5/24/2009 | 5 | DEPRESSION | in addition to taking prozac, this drug has seemed to increased sexual libito that had been deficient for many, many years; have taken a positive interest in improving myself, both phyically and mentally; i want to live another 50 yrs now | F | 52 | 2 years | 8/14/2002 | 5 | depression | HORRIBLE insomnia, lack of appetite, feeling weird/spaced out but yet very awake, anxious and unhappy, tinnitus (ringing ears), can't ever feel "at rest" or "at peace". Feeling like I want my life back, even if I was depressed! | I'm on 150 mg in the morning of Wellbutrin XL. If the side effects don't go away, I'm quitting. I'd rather be depressed than have all this crap going on in my head. The insomnia is THE WORST! Not just "can't sleep" but feeling like 2000 cups of coffee--horrible brain stimulation, and can't stop it! Actually, insomnia was the worst when I tried 300 mg on day 7 as directed. OMG! NEVER AGAIN! But even the 150 is messing me up. I give it a 5 for stopping depression, but am tempted to give it a 2 for giving new problems that are worse than depression was. Did anyone have these bad side effects and they WENT AWAY? If so, I have a little bit of hope of staying on it. I just want to cry right now, it's so miserable. | F | 52 | 10 days | 1/17/2007 | 4 | Severe, long term depression | The first time I had sex after starting on this drug, I was shocked! No one had told me it could amplify your orgasms and drastically shorten the time and effort to achieve them! I was fine before it, but now-I can't wait. My boyfriend loves that! Yea! I told him(and my shrink)that WB should be marketed for that! This could be sold as a female Viagra. I did have a slight headache that went away and the last few days I have felt irritable. Also, I noticed I have no need for the 2 or 3 drinks of booze I was having every night. Like many others I have weird dreams, not nightmares, but WEIRD! (Like Tom Hanks being a dog and talking to me! I also wake several time each night like I am finished sleeping but then go back to sleep, as if I am sleeping lightly.Oh, and I have a drastically decreased urge to stuff my face..and have lost six pounds. | I sure hope it keeps working and I can tolerate it well. I was told there was no 200mg of XL, but have read in previous posts that the generic comes that way, so maybe my switch from 150 to 300 contributed to the irritability, and I can back off to 200. Or maybe I need to stop interacting with other people, except in bed! Haha! I worry about getting an alergic reaction that would make me give up the pleasant side effects. PLEASE let me stay on it! Oh, by the way, Im not depressed any more! :0) | F | 52 | 4 weeks | 4/19/2007 | 4 | Depression | Switched from Wellbutrin 300mg XL to Budeprion 300mg XL in January. Not sure if this is 'real' side effect; seem to be having a bout with hypo-mania/impulsive spending. Restless, hard to stay focused on one thing without getting up and wondering around. Some nausea & less appetite. | Quit alcohol about 3 weeks ago, started on Naltrexone & Campral for craving & GABA reuptake balance. (These drugs work!) Not sure of the nausea because they both have that side effect listed too. Anxiety is also listed. So my perceptions are skewed. My doc is concerned I've been treating mania with alcohol for past 4 years. I choose 4-Satisfied because I am better but still have nagging issues which I feel are not being treated. Libido is good but not relaxed or what I'd call maritally normal. [No affairs - married almost 15yrs.] | M | 52 | 13 years | 4/12/2007 | 4 | Depression, general malaise | Loss of appetite late in the day and a feeling of bloating. A little agitation. | I have a mild to moderate case of Rheumatoid arthritis and take Arava and Hydrocodone 7.5/500 (5 per day). Also Norvask 10mg for blood pressure and Xanax for anxiety that comes on at night. The doc started me off at 150SR twice a day. I used to drink too much and had been cutting down over the past 6 months or so. Now I don't even feel like drinking but still have a couple glasses of wine at night - habit I guess. Also I used to smoke about 8 or 10 cigarettes a day and now I have no urge and am down to 2 or 3 - maybe I will stop altogether. I do feel better and the best way to describe it is that I no longer feel 'dark'. My dreams have returned to normal and I am getting up earlier. It seems as if I am getting my life back. I see the doc in a couple of weeks. I have no trouble sleeping but I take an ambien so that probably helps. I am more active and have been cutting down on the painkillers. Less alcohol, smoking along with a little weight loss is probably helping keep the | M | 52 | 16 days | 6/4/2008 | 4 | depression | The first few weeks were tough. "Speeding" feeling, anxious, and still depressed. | After about 3 weeks things started to feel better.After 60 days it seems to have helped but I still don't feel that I'm "there" yet. Does it get any better as the months go on? | M | 52 | 9 weeks | 3/9/2008 |