WELLBUTRIN XL Reviews (BUPROPION)Average Rating: 3.4 (1462 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare WELLBUTRIN XL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR WELLBUTRIN XL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Depression | rapid weight loss (7 pounds in 9 days), I'm normally 109 and the rapid weight loss left me with palpitations. Blood pressure shot up to 169/85, nauseous, forgetfulness, up for two days straight. Heaviness in chest causing me to cough. Increased sex drive but with all the side effects it didn't matter. | I was on Wellbutrin SR for 9 days. Side effects listed got worse each day until I was afraid to take the pill. I stopped it after the 9th day of feeling awful. I normally go to the gym three days a week and do the elliptical for an hour. I went to the gym on the 4th day and could not even do 15 minutes on the elliptical, I thought I was going to have a heart attack. I would not recommend this drug for anyone who is naturally thin because the weight loss was drastic and made me feel sick. I would not recommend this to anyone on blood pressure medication. This stuff is "speed" on steroids. Oh and forgetfulness. Went out to eat ordered lunch and when it came, I didn't remember ordering what I did. Couldn't eat it anyway. Luckily I had no side effects from immediate withdrawal. Think long and hard before you take this drug. | F | 53 | 9 days 300 SR 2X day | 12/12/2011 | 5 | Depression | Blurred Vision, More of a positive aspect on things | I would recommend this to anyone for depression. My story, I use-to be always a very positive happy person.About a year and a half ago I went from being anorexic to overweight because of depression. I stopped eating all together and somehow became a binger to fullfill my depression. My hair started to fall out because of all the stress and I never slept. I needed help. After taking this, I feel so much happier with life and started going out again. I slept better for the most part but still have insomnia some nights. It didn't really help with my binging because I still do it at night but I am way happier with life. | F | 22 | 3 months 150mg 1X day | 12/11/2011 | 4 | Depression, Fatigue, Concentration | Takes a few weeks to get into system during which time I experienced headaches and was hypersentative. | I am finding myself irritable, less tolerant of people and cry everyday! However, my spirits are lifted and I no longer dread getting our of bed, and now have the energy to cry everyday, for no reason - not for long periods @ time but still. I see a coffee commercial I cry or see someone else cry and I start. WHY?? I welcome comments. Thank you for this website. | F | 43 | 30 days 300 mg 1X day | 12/4/2011 | 1 | depression | Acne, hair loss, excessive sweating | Worked great for about a month. Sweating starting as soon as I started taking it but I was willing to live with it. After two months, my ponytail started to thin out. I attributed it to change of seasons. Now I have to clean my hairbrushes out every two days, I find my hair all of the place, on the floor, in my lint trap in my clothes dryer and I've noticed bald patches in my scalp. I had fine hair to begin with but this is ridiculous. And to say that it's made my depression worse, to say the least. I will be tapering down this med tomorrow. And I had to buy Rogaine. I'm 33 years old. I wish I never took this med. It's given me more problems than I had to start out with. I'd rather be depressed than bald. | F | 33 | 3 months 450 1X day | 12/1/2011 | 4 | Depression | Anxiety increase and occasionally but rare panic attack (both being avoided after start taking a anxiolytic called Alprazolam) and vision a little blurry - can deal with. (please do not stop reading here, see important additional comments) | I was in a deep depression, my face, voice, i was unrecognizable, had no hope at all. I was expecting that Wellbutrin would make effect in 2 weeks, but it did not, not even a little improvement. Between the second and third week of taking the medicine, i wanted to see my doctor to ask for change the medicine, but the doctor was not available. Fortunately, the Wellbutrin wasn't changed, because after just 2 weeks and 6 days I could start to feel the difference, it's like being hold under water and finally reach air and breath. I know what depression is, so i kindly ask all who are going through this without hope: do not give up the medicine, hold on at least one month if necessary, even without feeling a difference, it takes time but will work. For just 6 days, i would give up Wellbutrin, and maybe kept with no hope, in this hell called depression. | M | 35 | 3 weeks 150mg 1X day | 11/30/2011 | 5 | chronic fatigue, rls, painful sex | none | This drug is a miracle and may have saved my marriage!! Here is my story: I was on this drug years ago for depression and it helped. I felt better and got off. Over the next three years I developed painful bladder syndrome which caused painful intercourse as well as horribly low energy (chronic fatigue) and restless leg syndrome (rls). My doctor thought maybe a low level of dopamine was causing the last two, so he prescribed me wellbutrin. Not only do I have a regular amount of energy again, but it CURED my painful bladder syndrome and sexual dysfunction. If you have these kinds of symptoms, please try wellbutrin (I may actually move down to 75 mg of the original, as I am occasionally a bit jittery). I hope someone with IC, PFD, or chronic fatigue also gets helped by this drug! | F | 29 | 4 weeks 150 1X day | 11/26/2011 | 2 | Depression | Sever headaches, nausea, weepy | I was on Zoloft for a long time. It was cause a lot of trouble in my marriage due to the sexual side effects. My family doctor just switched me to Wellbutrin XL about a week ago. And in that times, I've been experiencing horrible headaches, loss of appetite and nausea. Not to mention I cry at the dumbest things now. How long do these side effects last? I'm about to cry just thinking about all this. | F | 26 | 1 weeks 150 1X day | 11/16/2011 | 4 | Depression | Insomnia (subsided after the first month); Loss of Appetite (subsided after the first month); No other noticeable side effects. | This medication changed my life. I was so depressed I didn't even remember what it was like to actually feel normal. I am much more calm, less moody, have more energy, and am just a happier person. At first, it would keep me wide awake at night but that was just while I was getting used to the medication. Also, when I first started taking it, I did notice a loss of appetite but my appetite came back too. I've been using it for 5 months now and I sleep great, I eat normally and I haven't experienced any other notable side effects. For the first time in years I actually feel normal. I've tried Lexapro, Effexor, and Cymbalta to combat my depression. And although those helped for a short time, the side effects were too much for me. Wellbutrin XL has many more benefits than side effects in my experience. I am very happy to have given this medication the chance to help my depression. | F | 23 | 5 months 150 1X day | 10/8/2011 | 4 | Chronic Depression | Wonderful! I feel better than I remember feeling in a long time. Side effects subsided after a few days - maybe a week. I have to be careful, though, and take med on time everyday, or (even by just an hour or two), the "whooshing" comes back. So far, a great experience with Wellbutrin XL. | F | 40 | 2.5 months 300 1X day | 9/27/2011 Patient History | 4 | depression, anxiety, quit smoking | Migraines increased in frequency. Really moody and crying a lot for the first week or so, but that went away. I also felt kind of spacey/had slight memory loss/trouble concentrating for the first week. | I love this drug! Prior to wellbutrin, I had tried pretty much every SSRI available and had too much trouble w/ the side effects to stay on them. Wellbutrin does not sedate me like the SSRIs did, I still have my feelings and my sex drive, and I haven't gained any weight. I have lost about 5 pounds, but I attribute that to feeling so good that I no longer stress eat and I feel more motivated to get out of bed and go to the gym. I also notice that certain things that used to upset me don't upset me any more. I had an altercation w/ a coworker the other day, which normally would've stressed me out to the point of not sleeping for days. Instead, I left work and although I did feel annoyed about the situation, I was able to rationalize in my head and it didn't really get to me. I only rated this drug a 4 because it hasn't helped me quit smoking (cigs taste worse but I still want them), and it caused my migraines to increase. My doc is going to start me on Topamax for the migraine because I begged her not to take me off this drug! | F | 28 | 1 months 150 1X day | 9/22/2011 | 5 | Depression, paranoia, summer SAD | Great libido increase, increased focus and energy increase | Since I started taking Wellbutrin 300 mg. I have also noticed I have a very sharp and cutting tongue. I correct rude idiots in public now all the time. I live in Texas where everyone has a gun. So to protect myself I now have to complain in Norwegian; something no one here speaks. For anyone having trouble sleeping with Wellbutrin? Take valerian, passion flower and melatonin at night. Take your Wellbutrin in the morning. The herbs and melatonin help me sleep. | F | 54 | 2 weeks 300 1X day | 9/11/2011 | 4 | Depression, anxiety | Headaches the first two weeks that then went away. Extreme mood swings and feelings of hopelessness during my period. | This drug has been a life changer for me. It has made concentration easier; I worry less; I sleep better; my sex drive has not been affected. My only complaint is three to four days around my period I am extremely depressed, feel lost and hopeless. | F | 37 | 2.5 months 300mg 1X day | 9/7/2011 | 4 | PTSD, bipolar, dissociation | weight loss (+15 lbs within the first two months), loss of appetite, no taste, random panic attacks (racing thoughts, tightened chest, restless), extreme anger spikes accompanied with graphically violent thoughts, tunnel vision, lack of thirst, insomnia, trouble focusing, crying fits, numbness | thus far, this is the only drug that has chased away my suicidal ideations, but at a cost. if I take my second dosage later than 8 pm, sleeping is nearly impossible. the most alarming side affect has been the anger spikes. they have only started recently (about 8 months in). they're provoked by the slightest annoyance, and range in severity from snapping at anyone who passes (considering my social anxiety, approaching strangers is VERY unusual, and in a provoking manner even more so) to self-inflicted beatings | F | 16 | 10 months 150 MG 2X day | 9/6/2011 | 1 | PTSD MDD | Nausea; No appetite; hallucinations; it feels like something is eating me alive its a horrible feeling; increased sex drive but whats the point when you feel like death?; awfull feeling in head like a weight is on it; so many aches its unbelievable should have stuck with effexor! | I had to switch to this medicine because Effexor 300 was causing sex problems. They issued me levitra and still no help so they said lets try this medicine. As soon as i started taking it I became ill, angry, nauseated, and just feeling like death. I must get off this medicine I am also on Lithium which might intefere. I feel so sick right now i want to tear out what ever is inside me to get it out... THIS BUPROPRIN IS A CURSE I AM IN MISERY. | M | 26 | 3 weeks 150 1X day | 8/30/2011 | 2 | Depression / Anxiety | Insomnia, naseau, severe depression, hoplessness | I have long standing depression / anxiety / OCD. Went off Luvox in April after five years on and 25lbs later AND sexual side effects. I needed something for my depression and anxiety but did not and do not want to take any SSRI's. I was able to get brand name Wellbutrin XL after reading reviews of the generic. I experienced severe depression a few weeks into taking it, I upped the dose to 300mgs and began taking it in the am because of severe insomnia. This made me so naseaus I could barely function, along with headaches, continued insomnia and dramatic hopelessness. I finally stopped taking it after two months of pretty much agony. It did stop a lot of my worrying, but the other side effects were not worth it. I wil say, I lost 10lbs. Not sure if that was getting off an SSRI or getting on this, or both. Defniitely not for me. | F | 37 | 2 months 150 - 300 1X day | 8/29/2011 | 4 | Mood disorder and also depression | I have not had any side effect that im aware of | Love it no issues but i think that i need an increase to take the edge off. | F | 32 | 7 months 300 1X day | 8/21/2011 | 1 | PTSD/ Depression | Horrible side-effects during the first 4-6months. Not sure if they subsided or I just became used to it. Helped a bit for the first year, but my body became prone to the dosage. I'm 21yrs old, 5"4, 105lb, thus it was dangerous to increase to 450mg per day. I'm currently on a mission to withdraw from this med without my psychiatrists supervision because most psychiatrists are manipulating patients with these toxic psychotropic drugs to be paid highly from the drug companies. He would not prescribe lower dosage when I clearly told him that it does not work for me. | For more information on the TRUTH about psychotropic drugs, especially antidepressants, and the history of Psychiatrists and Drug companies, PLEASE VISIT: www.cchr.org/videos/psychiatry-an-industry-of-death/an-industry-of-death.html | F | 21 | 2.5 years 300mg 1X day | 8/19/2011 | 3 | Anxiety & depression | Jittery, muscle pain, sudden surges of panic, awful taste in mouth, weight loss, spacey | I am in a transition phase. I take the Wellbutrin XL in the am & Celexa 10mg in pm. Monday I stop taking Celexa all together and continue on with the Wellbutrin. My overall mind feels okay but the body effects are taxing. I am hoping this will pass soon so I will hold out. | F | 32 | 3 days 150 1X day | 8/13/2011 | 3 | Chronic mood disorder | Slight irritability and increase in energy at the beginning of treatment, these effects subsided. Constipation was the most problematic side effect and lasted throughout treatment. | Wellbutrin helped me somewhat and I thought I might be heading towards complete remission after several years of depression and anxiety. Unfortunately, it just wasn't enough by itself although I would be open minded to adding it with another medicine in the future. | M | 43 | 3 months upt to 450 1X day | 8/4/2011 | 1 | major depression | sore throat,very hoarse, uncontrollable coughing, lung congestion,vivid nightmares | I had hopes that this medication would work but the side effects are not worth it. All my side effects started within 3 days of first taking this. I was prescribed the name brand but had to get the generic because of insurance. Pharmacist said that there is no difference between the two. She did tell me to stop taking it because I could be allergic. | F | 62 | 2 weeks 150 mg 1X day | 8/2/2011 |