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 |
| 1 | depression | extreme anxiety and depression. Buzzing sound in my head that would not let me sleep, had to keep tv on all night to keep the buzzing at bay! | Went to another doc and he say wellbutrin was too stimulating for me. He said my problem is general anxiety which leads to depression when your brain has had enough. He put me on Zoloft and it has done wonders. Still get anxious from time to time but nothing like the old days! | M | 44 | 7 days 1X day | 3/29/2010 | 1 | depression / anxiety | very violent dreams and remember them vividly next day insomnia excessive sweating at night shakey/tremor like heart palpitations aggitated and agressive behavior | this stuff is dangerous! made me worse and the effects are nasty! My heart is ready to quit its rythem is all over!!and I have only been on it for 9 days@ 150mg once every mourning with no other meds or alcohol or anything!!! | M | 38 | 9 days 150 1X day | 10/23/2010 | 1 | Depression | Horrible anxiety attacks, pain in my legs, mild muscle spasms, major insomnia, find it hard to get that deep breath, VERY irrational thinking at times, loss of hope, very violent thoughts about killing for no reason, major headaches, loss of interest in things I once found very pleasing, Dizziness, increased sex drive, hard to keep focus on good thoughts, at one point I even convinced myself I was going physcologically insane. | M | 17 | 2 months 150MG 1X day | 2/4/2011 | 1 | Depression | Terrible side effects!!! Increased anxiety, constant feeling of being sea-sick, electric shock sensations, vivid dreams, loss of sleep, crying spells, angry outbursts, feeling like I was in a "fog." | I was on one 150 mg. dose for 7 days and felt pretty lousy. When I increased by dose to 300 mg. on day 8 as directed by my doctor I felt awful. I could barely function at work and appeared "drunk." When the weekend arrived, I could not get out of bed. The pharmacist recommend Dramamine and to decrease my dose. I know I was not suppose to, but I completely stopped taking wellbutrin on Day 9. I have not taken any in 2 days and feel so much better. This drug was like a poison from me. I have been on Paxil, Prozac, and Celexa. I had very negative withdrawal symptoms from Paxil and would not recommend that either but nothing compared to the effects of Wellbutrin. | M | 36 | 10 days 300 mg. 2X day | 11/1/2010 | 1 | Depression | Dizziness, lack of concentration, panic attacks, hallucinations, restlessness, inability to control anger, fear of death. Kidney issues, feeling ill. After discontinuation: ringing ears (2 months), depression (2 months), lack of appetite (2 months). Behaved very irrationally because of this medicine and now I'm either going to jail (or more likely) to psychiatric prison and will die there. | Do not take this medicine. I also think it is very bad for liver etc. Never take high-doses. There are FDA warnings about this drug. Just Google about (Youtube). | M | 31 | 14 days 150 1X day | 10/26/2011 | 1 | anxiety | after taking it i felt depressed, it brought my anxiety down and also the smoking which i want to stop smoking when i feel better not by some damn medication. this medicine sucks ass | M | 31 | 1 days 37.5 1X day | 5/6/2012 | 1 | supplement to lexapro | severe reaction...loss of balance...loss of speaking ability...hosp two days... | M | 52 | 10 days 150mg 1X day | 6/16/2012 | 1 | I became very irritated with everything and got severe migraines. I am now off this junk - it is pure poison. Exercise and eat well don't take SSRIs or SSNIs. | It should be taken off the market - like Serzone was. | M | 54 | 7 days 75 MG 1X day | 6/5/2012 | 1 | Depression | Headache, nausea, lightheadedness, drowsiness, discomfort, anxiousness, anxiety, excessive perspiration | M | 18 | 4 weeks 150 2X day | 12/19/2012 | 1 | depression | Slowly growing feeling of anxiety. After about two months complete anhedonia followed by constant day-long panic over the anhedonia. Had to seek out diversions such as TV's 'Fear Factor' to try to get my mind off of the panic. One morning woke up and knew that I would kill myself; told wife to put guns in gun safe, locked it and told her to hide the key. Two days later checked into mental hospital for severe depression. | Great for weight loss; during my months long panic I lost over 45 pounds. | M | 52 | 5 months 150 1X day | 7/15/2012 | 1 | Depression/ADHD | felt even more depressed, fatigue like no other, be up for 9 hours sleep 15, feeling out of wack , heavy eyes. neck stiffness. unmotivated | THE CIA IS TRYING TO KILL US ALL, i was taking the 150 and felt great , moved to the 300's and felt the side affects mentioned | M | 22 | 4 months | 3/10/2006 | 1 | Mild Depression/Smoking | I'M FEELING KINDA EDGY AND TENSE. Moody, even. My heart's pounding and I'm getting more paranoid every day. My wife tells me I'm more depressed than she's ever seen me. I did quit smoking, though. | I started taking Wellbutrin within a week of starting cholesterol medication and a new diet, and I quit smoking at the same time. Since then I've gradually gotten more and more tense and edgy and depressed and anxious and paranoid. Haven't slept more than three hours a night in weeks unless I take sleepy pills. | M | 37 | 2 months | 9/7/2005 | 1 | Depression | Hypermania, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts. | I was prescribed Wellbutrin while going through a divorce about 4 years ago. I had told the physician that I was down and finding it difficult to concentrate at work, and she recommended it as a 'mild' antidepressant, and the one that would be the best fit with my lifestyle. I am a pharmaceutical executive, ironically . . . not sure if that is relevant, but I think I'm pretty open minded and objective about side effects. Honestly, 4 years later, I'm still frightened and fascinated by what this drug did to me. Within a week, I was so anxious and so keyed up that I simply could not sleep. This led to a one of the craziest nights in my life, when I just laid in bed crying and honestly, truly, wanting to kill myself. I basically just went crazy. I went off the medication immediately, and within a few days was functioning fine again. This experience scared the hell out of me - I just came across this website and decided to post it, even though it's been 4 years. | M | 34 | 7 days | 6/23/2006 | 1 | major depression / ADHD | Days 1-5: I actually felt happy and enthusiastic. Very welcome feeling. a small amount of hand tremor and nervous energy. Couldn't fall asleep and woke up too early. Too jittery to ride my bicycle or go to the gym. Day 6-10: I became Darth Vader. Still could not sleep. I was major depressed, way angry, hated everyone. Prayed for my life to end. Headaches. On day 9 I simply "lost it" and started pounding my fists on my head, smashing items onto my head, then ran around flapping my arms screetching like a bird. Seriously. By the way, that sort of behavior is not my "norm". Luckily I was alone and I exhausted myself. I lost all desire to exercise and wanted to hide in my bedroom. If it wasn't for that "bird episode" I would have gotten no exercise since I started this. Loss of appetite too. I stopped eating dinners. My libito also improved exponentially, but being single it's not really welcome, sort of the "all dressed up and no where t | The exact same "head slapping" reaction occured with Effexor 2 years ago. Anyway, after reading the other comments here regarding side effect that later turned positive I decided to keep trying another week. Might be all this are just initial side effects. If the bird screetching episode happens again I'll check for feathers, this drug seems unpredictable enough on me, you never can tell... | M | 47 | 10 days | 8/6/2006 | 1 | Depression | intense sleepiness, even after a full night's rest | I was falling asleep at my cubicle at work. | M | 5 days | 8/7/2006 | 1 | chest pain, headache, and feeling like shit | this drug is not a good idea to take! | M | 16 | 3 weeks | 4/6/2006 | 1 | depression | constant headache | M | 37 | 3 days | 12/25/2005 | 1 | fatigue, depression | high anxiety, heart palpitaions, overly excited behavior, depersonalization | I was really hoping for good things but I did have a fear of wellbutrin before I got on it. Although I was depressed going on it, there were good things happening in my life, I was feeling in touch with my heart, more compassionate and interested in various subjects-still fatigue, anxiety, depresion were enough to get me to try it. Right away my anxiety sky rocketed and my heart palpitations seemed to break my connection to my heart. It has been three weeks since I've been off it and i feel like a different person-more depersonalized then ever, out of touch with emotions that I was in touch with just months ago. I'm not saying this medication is bad for everyone but be careul and take into consideration how feel about medications before you get on them, your attitude makes a difference. | M | 23 | 4 months | 12/14/2005 | 1 | To Quit Smoking | Red eyes, beyond normal redness, sore, painful, deep red eyes, dry, itchy, red eyes. I just moved my eyes to the side to see what you wouldn't normally see of the eye and it looks like I should be hospitalized. | M | 39 | 3 months | 4/19/2006 | 1 | smoking cessation | Rage, Anger, Weight loss, Sleep depravation | I have taken wellbutrin for almost 2 weeks now. The first few days I thought it was great, I actually didn't want to smoke, but then day 4 I started smoking like I always have, and my mind became very cloudy, at times I couldn't understand what people were saying to me, I am normally a very easy going guy, but this drug made me feel so much anger that I actually felt like beating someone up, that has never happened to me before, I called my doctor and he said come off the drug immediately, serious fits of rage and anger are the worst side effects in some people for this drug, and should cease taking it if it continues.. | M | 44 | 13 days | 3/12/2007 |