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 |
| 3 | help memory / mild depression | no side effects that I can confidently say were side effects of the drug, didn't even loose any weight like every one says you do. 3 weeks into taking wellbutrin, for a couple weeks I noticed that my dyslexia got worse when typing, flipping more letters and leaving whole words out of sentence's. | Profile: age 33 white male, 6FT 165lb. I was preparing for an exam getting stressed out and depressed and major stress headaches. I decided to see if my doc would get me some wellbutrin to help with depression and memory. My headaches went away. Depression only went away after I came to terms with the fact that it wasn't in me to take the CFP exam again. Depression still comes and goes regarding worthlessness. I've been off wellbutrin for about 2 week and haven't noticed any changes. So I guess the only thing it helped with is the stress headaches. | M | 33 | 3 months | 3/9/2006 | 3 | long term chronic depression | Insomnia. Some agitation. Occasional headaches- not sure is Welbutrin caused | Works like a charm for most of the time but after a while, (3-4 months) at 150 day dosage, started feeling a bit irritable. Got used to sleeplessness, still have tons of energy.Being a career athelete/runner I like the high energy effect, just wish I could sleep all the way through the night. No noticable wt loss or gain, no change in libido.Definate improvement in outlook on life. Much less bleak- higher self esteem. Got off it for 3 weeks, and started feeling very depressed, crying easily- back on it every other day now. | M | 49 | 6 days | 3/20/2006 | 3 | major depression/anxiety | heart palpitations!!some trouble sleeping. irritibility and anger. | I have tried a number of meds. Wellbutrin has really helped with the depression. I take only 100mg of SR, can't tolerate any more... puts me in absolute mania/hyperactivity. But my heart is skipping beats more and more, and my legs seem to be fatigued while on it -- so, finally, I have decided tghat it has to go. But if you can stand the side effects it can be helpful. | M | 49 | 7 months | 3/5/2006 | 3 | depression | constipation - actually really bad | was on 225 mg generic wellbutrin every morning. made me feel better at work and helped me deal a little better with stress. | M | 49 | 3 days | 1/7/2006 | 3 | Chew Tobacco Cessation - Minor Depr | Dry mouth - Thirst - Nice little Cat Naps - Minor Lack of focus / Distraction - Minor Grouchyness that comes and goes - Minor hand tremors. | So far after two days of 150mg in the morning the side effects have been minor. I have not had to bad of a ride so far. In two days I go to another 150mg in the afternoon and have set a quite chewing date for next Wednesday. I hope to not get the rash. I learned and read everyting I could about Wellbutrin before I started taking the script that I had filled. I decided that the side effect people are having for the most part is worth the risk but at the same time I aslo decided to only use this drug for no more than 4 weeks no matter what and plan to have another liver function test when I'm done. The one thing that I have noticed that I would like to mention to anyone thinkging about taking this drug is to be careful while driving. I almost ran off of the road twice since I started them. It sort of wierd that when you get distracted you don't realize how much time is actaully giong by. Good luck to all! | M | 30 | 2 days | 1/12/2006 | 3 | depression | side effects are bad in the since that depression is worse dont really mind any of the other side effects | ive taken wellbutrin before and it got me through but it is hard for me to know if its for me or not i am very dissappointed in my doctors its like they threw threw the drug at me and kicked me out the door. i really feel like dieing | M | 40 | 6 days | 6/17/2006 | 3 | depression | angiety nervesness dry mouth insomnia consipation or diarrea feeling of totally lost | i have to say to be honest this my seccond posting and i hate for anybody to loose hope,i gettingclos if i havnt already ive taken wellbutrin off and on for a number of years this time ive taken it for 6 days and the depression seems to be worse i do feel like the doctors give me this drug and said dont let the door hit you on the way out and yea yea yea poor me i have no one to talk to about the drug or its consequences any suggestions go uder 5 and let me know | M | 40 | 6 times | 6/17/2006 | 3 | with effexor for depression | teeth grinding | I was taking this with effexor to help with the sexual side effects of the effexor. I ground my teeth so bad I had to be fitted with a $400 night guard. When I ran out of wellbutrin, the grinding stopped and I realized that the med was causing it. My doc had never heard of this before. It didn't really help witht he sex drive, either. | M | 29 | 6 months | 8/15/2006 | 3 | Social Anxiety, Panic disorder | Extreme thirst, dry mouth, a tad spacy, a mild mania | I started taking Wellbutrin extended release, 100mgs/day, 7 days ago. I also take Lorazepam, 6mgs a day. I read some of the other side effects that people are having and am relieved to know that 'thirst' is high among them. It's such a weird side effect. Anyway, I'm not sure if I'm going to continue on this medication or not, given the slight mania it gives me. I'll stay up all night washing dishes and reading and other (benign) activities. If these symptoms disappear in the next couple of weeks, I'll stay on it, however, since it's lowering my dependence on lorazepam. | M | 23 | 7 days | 8/14/2006 | 3 | physical symptoms related to dprssn | same, exact same as another poster my age. Euphoria, anxiety, insomnia, rapid heart rate, pounding heart, heartburn, occasional agitation, dizziness, shakiness, =extreme= and unsettling breathing difficulties. neck, jaw, head tension, bad headaches (upon increase to 300XL) | So I had to stop! Which sucks. Like the other poster, age 41, it was too much to deal with, the breathing difficulties and the neck, jaw, and head tension. I started with 150L, and thought I could handle the upgrade to 300XL after 19 days, but noooo dice. My DR wanted me to take 150 for just a week! then move up. I insisted on 3 more weeks of samples. Like the other poster, I, too, had a succesful run with Wellbutrin, in my case 7 years ago, on Wellbutrin SR. I don't know if it was the XL, but this was horrible, and sad. Quitting cold turkey is NOT the way, but I felt I had no choice. The crash from stopping the drug cold-turkey lasted about 5 days, with some lingering effects 20 days later. Thanks SO MUCH to that other poster on this website, or I'd have felt terribly alone in my symptoms. | M | 42 | 20 days | 1/20/2006 | 3 | ADD | Vivid dreams (nightly, but not in the negative sense. my dreams are a little wierd, but containt places and people I know, but out of context), hyperactive / overdrive (occasionally, but evening out), neasuea (daily), jaw clenching / tightening of jaw (at week 3, my current time frame), | I felt nothing my first day, then on the end of day two I started feeling a little "off." At the end of day 3, I started feeling very strange - my feet were sweating, my body went numb, felt like I was starting to roll. (wouldn't that be an interesting side effect?) This only lasted about 15 minutes and hadn't happened since. At the end of the first week, I noticed I was sleeping much better and able to wake up almost on time with out my alarm clock. I haven't been able to do that in years. I'm eating a little less than usual and I find myself not "grazing" as much as I used to. Now, at week, 3, my jaw is feeling tight and I'm clamping down hard on my teeth but don't know it until my teeth start to hurt. I hope this goes away soon, but I want to keep taking this medication untill it starts helping with my ADD. I've notice an increase in my ability to stay on target for increased periods of time. | M | 31 | 3 weeks | 11/27/2006 | 3 | Depression | Excessive sweating, night sweats, dry mouth, wierd swollowing that results in gulping air causing stomach bloating, mild chest pain. | M | 40 | 13 days | 9/15/2005 | 3 | depression | i have been having aches on my body and low libido i've been taking this for 2 weeks now but i hope my libido will go back to normal in a few weeks? | i dont feel as depressed anymore | M | 19 | 2 weeks | 10/25/2006 | 3 | quit smoking/mild depression | increased libido. metallic taste. flat emotional feelings. | i still feel a little down, but after only a week, i'm much more focused. i've started exercising and i feel more concentrated at work. i'm a week from my quit day for smoking, and i've already considered moving it to an earlier day. i could do without the increased libido. | M | 28 | 7 days | 12/19/2005 | 3 | Depression and severe anxiety | I am only on day nine, but I keep having jerky, shocks throughout my body....has anyone else experienced this??? I tried counting them and lost track after 120 in about 30 minutes. Sometimes it is like I am struck by lightning or electric shocks.. I also don't sleep..and tried ambien which I have used on and off since 9-11 (I was a flight attendant...quit after 16 years because I can't handle it...a lot due to being in NY before and after.) | M | 37 | 9 days | 7/2/2006 | 3 | Smoking Cessation | Extreme dizziness and euphoria | Have been taking 150mg of Wellbutrin XL a day (minor dosage, first thing in the morning as directed by my doc) for 2.5 weeks to quit smoking. The good news: I'm no longer smoking; cigarettes taste awful; no cravings. The drug has done its job. Now the bad news: had to stop the Wellbutrin effective last night after a trip to the emergency room for extreme dizziness and euphoria. According to the ER physician, this type of side-effect is not only common but enough to warrant stopping the drug. The nurse, in fact, made a comment that she wouldn't take Wellbutrin either due to the types of side-effects cases they see in the ER. It seems to me, after reading all the comments on this page today, that others have shared my experience with Wellbutrin and our doctors did not sufficiently warn us about its potential side-effects. | M | 34 | 17 days | 2/12/2006 | 3 | maj dep/anx/add | swimming head,sick feeling upon awakening(goes away) | All right, whats going on here??? Firstly, I never had a rash or itch; Secondly, it HAS NOT raised my libido at all (i havent had an orgasm in 6 weeks--could that be the celexa i am taking w/it?)NOW HERE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ITEM---I am a human dynamo at work, very sociable any where--as soon as i shut the door behind me__I GO TO BED!!!!on wekends i sleep ALL the TIME!-i will lay in bed for 13 hours if i hav the time--my house is a human bomb explosion--it is so cluttered i am utilizing only 10% of it. but i WILL NOT clean! will not do anything positive for myself...and this is all on 300mg WB and celexa. where is MY insomnia!!!? where is my ENERGY AT HOME!!!? | M | 54 | 6 weeks | 2/19/2006 | 3 | to improve the sex drive | ringin in the ear ( Could be because of Celexa(lexapro)), feeling hyped , pain in the head ...like trigger shots ..specially if i focus on somethin , increased apetite, ) | well i just started..its my 4th day . Im takin 10mg of Celexa as well..but celexa made me lose my ejaculation ability so doctor told me to take Welbutrine which has no sexual side effects aparently, so far i habvnt noticed much of difference except few pains in the head and the hyped mood | M | 22 | 4 days | 9/13/2006 | 3 | Stop Smoking | Good gawd! This stuff definitely worked for numbing my mind to smoking (I'm a pack a day for 20+ yrs.). But now, 7 days later, I've decided to quit this stuff after having such high hopes and now will go it alone with just patches. I started at 150mg a day then on the 5th day started 21mg patches. Well, in the meantime, I had a severe panic attack (day 2), I got so anxious & paranoid I couldn't leave the damn house (day 3 & 4, kept trying to talk myself into leaving, WTF!?), then 2 days ago I started 21mg patches with WB. Man....I can't even drive without being cockeyed and nervous. It's soooo not safe. I went to buy 14mg patches to see if that made a difference and it didn't. I wake tomorrow to just patches and hopefully, no leftover SE's of this stuff. | My sister used this for smoking cessation and it worked like a miracle drug for her with no SE's. It does the same 'miracle' of making me not want to smoke. But the SE's are atrocious. I believe it also amplified a crisis situation we'd had here as well making me 100 times more depressed than I normally would have been (I even thought I shouldn't give this much a damn about this situation, but I did). It really is like someone made the miracle drug that makes you so jacked up while on it, you eagerly go back to dealing with sh*t on your own....like nicotine withdrawal.....OR what you THOUGHT was depressing before WB was nothing like slowly going crazy on this stuff. Glad it works for some of you though! | M | 38 | 7 days | 8/20/2006 | 3 | Depression | Just starting. I will report back how it goes. | I have been on Effexor - 75mg/d - for about two years. Previously tried Celexa which had little effect, and Remeron which turned me into a monster. Effexor helped but side effects are still there - mainly lack of libido. Now my doc wants me to switch over to Wellbutrin over a three week period. Let's see how it works. | M | 0 days | 1/11/2007 |