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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR WELLBUTRIN XL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Seasonal Depression | Felt spacy, slightly dizzy and unable to keep a thought for about a week. Food became uninteresting. | In the beginning...Having taken this before I know you have to get through the first few weeks to get a full sense of how ultimately your going to feel. I hadn't taken it in a couple years but decided I wasn't going to deal with another Northeast winter without it. I've been on it for 2 weeks now and feel much better, not quite perfect yet but I know it takes about 5-6 weeks for it to really kick in. Love the feeling of hope instead of feeling hopeless like so many other winters. I would recommend this for depression, I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND FOR PANIC DISORDERS. It causes slight anxiety in those of us who don't suffer with panic disorders. My girlfriend does suffer with panic disorder and was prescribed this and said it was awful and caused her to have more attacks than usual. | F | 37 | 2 weeks 150mg 1X day | 11/12/2010 | 5 | Depression | The only side effect is getting my sex drive back that I lost while taking Zoloft and a couple of others. | I take Buproprion HCL XL. If you are feeling better, and want to get off of the medication, take it very slowly. I was feeling better, and my doctor weened me off what he thought was slowly, but incredible depression started. Worst of my life. I am back on it and feeling okay again. Notice I didn't say great. I just feel normal. (Which is good) Also, Budeprion made by the company Teva is NOT the same. Pharmacy gave it to me and depression and anxiety kicked in immediately. Got back on Buproprion, and again, just feel normal. | M | 34 | 4 years 300 mg xl 1X day | 11/8/2010 | 3 | depression | dizziness, very nausiated, after i take it. it does not help with my chronic pain though. | F | 26 | 4 weeks 150mg 1X day | 11/8/2010 | 5 | Depression/Anxiety | NO side effects that I recognize | I tried the generics.. Teva and Watson... did not like either. Teva- I was so anxious.. Watson just did not seem to be effective at all. My insurance will not pay for the namebrand... I use canadianpharmacies.com for all my medications... 30days of wellbutrin XL 300mg namebrand. $38/month! It took years to find a medication that worked right for me. This medication is absolutely awesome.. it has changed my life. | F | 50 | 6 years 300MG 1X day | 11/7/2010 | 5 | Depression/PTSD/Anxiety | Weight loss, decreased appetite, couldn't be around cigarette smoke, nausea | This is an amazing, amazing prescription, better than Zoloft or Lexapro for me. A few things to know, having gone on and off: 1. You MUST TAKE THIS REGULARLY and try not to miss any doses. If I missed more than 2 days, I felt floaty and "not present." Then going back on made me anxious for several days. 2. Going on it you will be pretty jittery and anxious at first. When I first went on, I had two panic attacks in the first few weeks. It is actually contraindicated for anxiety because it is a stimulant. 3. Once you get through the first month, it is really great. I have more energy, more libido, less appetite...I always lose weight when I'm on and gain when I'm off. 4. The TIME OF DAY YOU TAKE IT is very important. Many problems people have could be solved by changing the time of day they take it. If it makes you sleepy (some people say it does), take it at night. If it makes you jittery, take it in the morning before you do anything so that can wear off. Etc. 5. GENERICS. Be careful with the XL generics, studies have shown they aren't as effective. They have been fine for me but not everyone. 6. It is really, really good for most things. Not necessarily anxiety, but as a mood stabilizer, it is great, and frankly its side effects are often more positive then negative. I will probably take this long term and have no real plans of stopping. | F | 28 | 4 years 300xl 1X day | 11/6/2010 | 5 | Depression | I take the generic by Watson. I changed to a different pharmacy that used Teva and within a short time my depression and anxiety were back. It was like I was taking a placebo. The Teva gemeric is totally useless for me. Once I switched back to the Watson generic, my depression lifted completely. | F | 57 | 3 years 300XL 1X day | 11/5/2010 | 1 | generic | 2days and I feel much worse. I am going to get the real thing instead of generic. It's made me smoke more. | M | 47 | 2 days 300 1X day | 11/2/2010 | 1 | depression | CLUSTER HEADACHES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE! | I had gone off Wellbutrin XL to the generic. The generic is truly garbage. My doctor wrote out a special letter so I could go back on Wellbutrin. Within 1-2 weeks these hideous cluster headaches began. The pain was unspeakable. I thought I was having seizures. Doctors thought I had a brain tumor, TMS, epilepsy etc. Finally after 4 months I stopped taking Wellbutrin XL. The cluster headaches continued for more than a year, till I started taking Citalopram. Then they stopped within 2 weeks. If anyone else has suffered severe headaches, especially cluster headaches from Wellbutrin, please contact me! | F | 55 | 18 months 50 1X day | 10/31/2010 | 5 | depression, lack of motivation. | insomnia first weeks of treatment, and worsened OCD. for obsessions and anxiety i take Cymbalta, it's great. | Wellbutrin XL saves my cognitive depressive decline. I switched often to other meds because of side effects, but all other ones makes me lethargic, anhedonic, and impaires my cognitive abilities. | M | 24 | 1 months 150 mg 1X day | 10/21/2010 | 5 | Severe Depression | Decreased Appetite and increased energy on Wellbutrin XL. My Medicare D changed my prescription to the generic Budeprion XL, and it was horrible! Stomach pain, anxiety, headaches, return of the depression...and then my hair started falling out in clumps. MD submitted paperwork to Medicare D to have them approve the Wellbutrin XL. | The Wellbutrin family of anti-depressants is the only kind that have worked. I started taking Wellbutrin in 1995 (three times a day), then transitioned to Wellbutrin SR when that came out, and finally to Wellbutrin XL. Over the years, other meds have been tried, but nothing works like Wellbutrin. And I have no unpleasant side effects. The generic was horrible, however. My hair stylist noticed that I lost half of my hair volume while taking Budeprion. That bothered me more than anything. | F | 41 | 5 years 300 1X day | 10/20/2010 | 5 | Depression | Loss of appetite. I felt "wired" and jittery the first week. This went away after a few weeks. | I was going to give up on this medication (after a month) but I stuck with it, and 5 days later it "kicked in". The world felt brighter and I felt calm and peaceful and happy. My motivation and creativity came back! I feel motivated and excited about life again!!!! I am back to my old self + more! :) | M | 28 | 35 days 150 1X day | 10/18/2010 | 5 | Bipolar Disorder | On generic: Increased appetite, return of depressive symptoms, headache. On name brand: Decreased appetite, increased energy, increased sex drive, more stability. | DO NOT GET THE GENERIC! I started taking it and felt good, at first, but then, a few days in, I started to feel terrible again. I lost my focus, my appetite increased, it was awful. On regular Wellbutrin XL, I feel great. My life has been a disaster lately, and suddenly, it's totally manageable. I'm focused, happy, confident, and stable. This is an amazing med when used properly. | F | 24 | 7 days 150 mg 1X day | 10/15/2010 | 5 | depression | Dry mouth after sleeping, slightly increased energy throughout the day, increased sex drive, weight loss, decreased appetite, loss of interest in food when eating | I began taking this med 5 weeks ago for depression. For the first 3 weeks I did not notice any alleviation of my symptoms. However, when I went back to my physician and told him this he switched me to a 200mg tablet and advised me to take it twice daily for a 400mg/day dose. Within a week I noticed a significant change in my mood (for the better). I also lost 10 pounds within the first 4 weeks of taking the drug. | M | 25 | 5 weeks 150mg 2X day | 10/14/2010 | 3 | Depression | Got alot of energy and felt really good. I felt a big dizzy and insomnia really. I think it is a good drug and will help me | I think this drug is good if you have depression and want motivation and want your good life back. It does cause insomnia a bit. | F | 39 | 6 days 150mg 1X day | 10/14/2010 | 5 | anxiety and depression | dry mouth, stale breath, increased energy, some urinary hesitancy | I love this drug. It helps me so much by reducing obsessive thinking and dwelling on the negative. I just feel better and happier and more social even in situations I would probably like to avoid. I try to stretch out the dosage by taking it every other day or every third day, but those days aren't as good. I feel I can reduce the side effects by skipping days regularly but after 2 days off I can't wait to take it again. I plan to taper off in the next few months, but my depression and paranoia and anxiety were very severe a year ago so I am going to be very careful in doing so. | F | 63 | 11 months 150 1X day | 10/9/2010 | 5 | depression | At first I had energy,nausea,increased appetite,ringing in ears,jaw clenching,constipation,crying spells,dry mouth and insomnia but that changed and now it makes me tired. I still have an increased appetite,ringing in ears,constipation and dry mouth. | I felt awful on the generic so I switched to name brand and felt much better. I also increased my dosage at a very slow rate which helped with side effects. There is a Wellbutrin 75 and 100,Wellbutrin SR 100 and 150 and Wellbutrin XL 150 and 300. Since it makes me tired, I now take it an hour before my bed time. My depression is gone at this time. It took several months to get over the majority of side effects. Good luck to all of you. I've been on this journey of trying antidepressants for five years. Thank you all for sharing and helping me and others know that there are side effects that the pharmaceutical companies don't share and that different people can react differently to the same medication. | F | 52 | 5 months 300 mg 1X day | 10/4/2010 | 5 | Depression, stress | The first 2 days I experienced hot flashes, headache, weird taste in mouth, nausea, energy, increased libido,suppressed appetite, slimming effect. I haven't weighed myself but i swear i've lost a few pounds in just a few days. | After the initial side effects wore off on the 2nd day i felt amazing. I wasn't on edge and stressed out all day. Bupropion has really helped my overall mood and the increased libido is great! I was instructed to start taking 2 doses of the 150mg after the 4th day but I think it was too much. I felt high and my anxiety level was out the roof. I also had this weird pain in my chest or back. So my DR. instructed i cut back to 150mg so hopefully that will be enough. The dose needs to be taken in the early morning because it can cause insomnia. I feel very alert at night but i'm able to fall asleep. I'm not exhausted and wanting to sleep as soon as i get home anymore. I've read a lot of bad reviews on the generic but I'm doing great with it and my copay is only $5! I took lexapro a few years ago but i did not like the side effects and it killed my sex life so i stopped taking it after 2 months. I hope this helps! | F | 32 | 7 days 150mg 1X day | 9/30/2010 | 1 | Anxiety (GAD) | Loss of appetite, depression, hot flashes, rapid heartbeat, paranoia | I've been taking this drug for five days for anxiety and it has been an absolute nightmare. Not only has it made my anxiety worse, but now I suffer from feelings of depression, which I had never felt before. The loss of appetite seemed great at first, but I'm already a slender girl and not being able to enjoy food is really affecting my quality of life. I also regularly have what feels like hot flashes and my hands are always sweaty. Since I've only been on this med for five days, I'm going to stop because it's too horrible to continue. | F | 25 | 5 days 150mg 1X day | 9/27/2010 | 2 | Depression | Dry mouth and bad breath, tin taste, shaky hands, emotional - crying all the time, just made me feel worse | Made me feel worse and the taste in my mouth is terrible, causing bad breath. Weight loss | F | 29 | 9 days 300mg 1X day | 9/25/2010 | 3 | Anixety/Depresson | constipation, ringing in ears, panic attacks, extrem weight loss, can't sleep more than 3-4 hours a night, metal taste in mouth, dry mouth, huge change in sex drive-greatly increased, food doesnt sound or taste the same, and I have no desire to eat | I have recently switched from Paxil CR to the generic Wellbutrin XL. Paxil was working good except I had gained 30 pounds in one year. I am only 5'2 so it was horrible. I wanted something to help take the edge off and to help control my panic attacks. Within the first two weeks of taking Wellbutrin I had the feeling that I wanted to die. I would cry constantly and feel like I was going to pull out my own hair. I am going to stick with this medication and hopefully the side effects will wear off. This last week that I've been on it my emotions have seemed to level off and I am starting to really feel good again. I just hate the feeling of overwhelming sadness. It makes life seem unbearable. I am considering to switching from the generic to the real Wellbutrin after reading all the reviews about how side effects are far less with the real pill. | F | 20 | 3 weeks 300mg 1X day | 9/24/2010 |