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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR WELLBUTRIN XL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | psychotic depression/maybe bipolar | For the first week, fell asleep every night at 8:00 and woke up at 4:00. Could NOT get back to sleep. | Despite heightened energy, motivation, and concentration on this drug, I have had NO lift in depression as of yet with ANY of my tried medications, which include lamictal, celexa, lexapro, effexor xr, wellbutrin xl and risperdal (slight). Have done loads of research and have not been able to find a miracle drug that will ease depression regardless of brain chemsitry or condition. All antidepressants work for only a small proportion of people it seems. | M | 19 | 1 months | 12/21/2006 | 3 | adhd, ocd, anxiety | had minor headaches. dry mouth, almost like a cottony feeling, and also dry throught and eyes. have noticed it helped me with my constant heart poundings but notice occasional outbursts of anger and a sense of feeling guilty a lot of the time. | M | 21 | 1 months | 1/22/2008 | 3 | Post pregnancy/divorce depression | No bad side effects other then a little constipation. Appitite decreased, which is good since Lexapro made me a cow. First few weeks really vivid dreams. | I am trying to come off Lexapro, I was down to 2.5mg of that and could not stop taking it without experiencing the dizzyness so my Dr. suggested trying this. It does not make the dizzyness go away so I still have to take the Lexapro but it seems to be helping with my weight and sex drive that Lexapro killed. I would be interested in hearing from anyone else that has tried to come off Lexapro. I am struggling bad with it. | F | 34 | 1 months | 10/2/2007 | 3 | Wellbutrin xl 150 | I would love to know the time frame in which people lost weight -- | F | 35 | 1 months | 5/8/2009 | 3 | Depression/Anxiety | I have been taking generic Wellbutrin XL (300 mg)for one month now. I took Lexapro (gained 25 lbs and was like a robot) for two years, then Zoloft (lost the 25 lbs instantly and was less robotic) most-recently... both of which quit working. For the first two weeks of taking the generic Wellbutrin I had AWFUL vertigo! I felt like I had just stepped off of an amusement park ride! I have a lot more energy but find myself having weird spells... One minute I am laughing like a crazy woman, the next minute I want to cry, and the next minute I am extremely irritable and am about to go postal. I am not sure if these side effects will go away or if I should call my doctor now and asked to be put on a different medication. Any recommendations for something that will not make me fat, lazy, and have crazy mood swings?? | F | 38 | 1 months | 4/21/2009 | 3 | adhd | Increased anxiety,extreme iritablity, mood swings, decreased energy, increased appetite, lower adnominal pain | I was prescribed bupropion 150mg once a day for ADHD. A few hours after my first day taking it I began to get very sad and angry, I began crying at work for no reason, hanging up on callers at work. I was also very snapy on people and just wanted to be alone. The snapyness decreased after the first 2 weeks. My anxiety has been through the roof. The first week my appitete decreased then after that I've been wanting to eat everything in site. After being on it for a complete month now I must admit I do beilve this drug works for depression I feel more a peace with my self and have more mental drive to achieve daily goals. But note i did not talk to my doctor what so ever about depression, so this was strickly given to me for adhd. as far as this drug being used to treat ADHD is a joke. My attention span has been just as bad if not worst then before, I find myself daydreaming and jumping from task to task just as before only difference is now I have more anxiety when I'm trying to focus a task. I feel like this drug is just a safe med for doctors to give patients seeking help for ADHD so they don't have to actually dig into diagnosing you.this drug doesn't have any major harmful side effects and is non additive so its perfect for a doctor to prescribe out to quiet someone up. And BC this drug acutaly does help for some disorders and there are side effects it works for weening out those just trying to get their hands on a stimulant script . But for those who seriously have adult | F | 23 | 1 months 150mg | 5/12/2015 | 2 | depression/ anxiety | Very up and down mood the first few weeks. After that, just a constant low, foul mood where I feel like fighting any deuchebag who looks at me the wrong way. I think it's cause I feel activated inside but in the wrong way! | I worked too hard in counseling to help resolve my anger issues only to have it flare up again in full force on this med. I've only been on WB for a month but I feel like I'm going bacwards on this med. Yes, I'm more productive. But it's come at the expense of intesifying my anger/irritablity issues and I hate it. It's causing too much self-loathing and I'm becoming an asshole again. This in-turn is making me hateful towards everyone else. I don't know. But I'm not willing to stick it out since, based on a lot of reviews, this irritablity feeling may not go away away. | M | 30 | 1 months | 12/4/2009 | 2 | depression,or BP II doctor not sure | occasional ringing in the ears maby once a week, slightly more emotional , it made me cry easily. | I don't feel like it made any difference at all.. | F | 23 | 1 months | 4/28/2008 | 2 | Major Depressive Disorder | IRRITABILITY! desire to cry, slightly increased libido, anger, itchy feeling (weird, i know), increased appetite (after taking Cymbalta), decreased desire to smoke/drink, feeling like i'm PMSing all the freaking time! | The drug is terrible for me. I've been on (in the past): Paxil, Lexapro, Cymbalta (with a combo of Depakote and some other mood stabilizer in the beginning), and now Wellbutrin XL. Lexapro was great, Cymbalta was freaking AMAZING!!!! but i was on it and couldn't stand not having any sex-drive anymore. but it did decrease my appetite. Anyway... i have been on it for about a month and can't stand it. My mom and co-worker say to get the hell off of it b/c of the crying spells/insanity it caused them. | F | 23 | 1 months | 9/14/2006 | 2 | Anxiety, OCD, Clinical Depression | Every single one. I'm on the Generic if that makes a difference. Fogginess, increased need to urinate, OCD increase, Jittery and restless like I've never been before, Had Panic attack feelings although haven't had one yet. Feel Wired beyond belief and I can't drink caffeine at all which sucks... | I'm also taking Effexor XR 150mg, I was hoping this would level things out but it's made me feel weird and I dont like it one bit. The one thing I can give to Wellbutrin is my mood was a bit better and the intrusive suicidal thoughts were gone... | M | 35 | 1 months 150-300mg 1X day | 12/16/2017 | 1 | Depression | I was on Lexapro from April '10 until November '10. I had immediate and fantastic results. I noticed around October that the depression was coming back. I started having anxiety attacks and was totally numb. I finally lost it and took a leave of absence. The doctor said I would be better with Wellbutrin. I started at 150 and felt better. When I upped to 300 (taking 2 150s) I was still good. Almost immediately after taking the Teva 300mg, I went downhill- with side effects like itching and jumpiness. I can't believe the complaints about Teva's 300xl and it is still being prescribed and pharmacies claim there isn't a difference. I am sick about this. | F | 48 | 1 months 300xl 1X day | 11/30/2010 | 1 | GAD, depression | Tightness in chest and throat (increased anxiety), terrible mood swings, shortness of breath, lightheadedness (to the point where I thought I might pass out sitting down), tightness in my back when I would lye down or sit my back against something hard, like the wall. Hives during the last 3 days I was on it. | I was on the generic form on Wellbutrin XL, Bupropion. I don;t know if I was allergic to it or what, but I felt awful. I have never had hives in my life, and knew it was time to stop taking the medicine when those appeared. I had already been feeling pretty awful before that side effect occured, and asked my doc. to switch me to Lexapro. It's been 2 weeks since I started it and I am feeling great. | F | 24 | 1 months .5mg 1X day | 9/13/2010 | 1 | depression | weight loss, hillusinations | i took it for about a month and a half..and i hated it..i lost 12 pounds, that was the only good thing..but other wise..i started hearing things and that was not cool at all. i would never take this med again. | F | 18 | 1 months | 1/14/2007 | 1 | Depression | didn't know what I was doing extremely irritable | I was given this medication for depression. I had previously been on Cymbalta but I slept all the time. I had no energy at all. The energy level was great on the generic Wellbutrin XL. My irritability became worse than it had ever been. I was doing and saying absolutely crazy things on this medication. It was so bad my Husband left me. He has since came back. I will never touch this junk again. | F | 39 | 1 months | 4/7/2009 | 1 | generalized anxiety disorder | Urinary incontinence, irritability, anger became my dominant emotion, wasn't fully in control of my thoughts actions and feelings, felt things that weren't real, became nauchturnal, became emotionally distant to close relatives, difficult to focus on routine tasks such as work | For the first week or so it worked great then it all went down hill | F | 19 | 1 months 150mg | 12/28/2014 | 1 | Depression | Irritability, anger, violent outbursts, headache | M | 20 | 1 months 300 MG 1X day | 2/16/2014 | 1 | Smoking cessation | Extreme increase in sex drive. Odd, powerful, and sometimes scary dreams. Aided in weight loss. Did not help with smoking cessation. Withdrawal effects included "brain zaps," flu like symptoms, and all these side and withdrawal effects of this supposedly "safe smoking cessation med" we're then misdiagnosed as one of the "life long, incurable, genetic mental illnesses." What a nightmare it was dealing with psychiatrists not intelligent enough to read their own DSM, where it clearly states that if a person's symptoms were the result of a prior drug, then it is a misdiagnosis to claim the ADRs are a "life long, incurable, genetic mental illness." I understand the US psychiatric industry has committed this same malpractice (misdiagnosing the ADRs from antidepressants as bipolar) in over a million children so far. I'd like to see this massive psychiatric malpractice end soon, US psychiatrists, please. | F | 36 | 1 months | 12/6/2013 | 3 | depression and extreme anxiety | headaches serious muscle aches | it really does not seem to be helping much. doctor upped me to 450 mg in one morning dose. i also feel a little paranoid. is anyone taking 450 mg at once? | F | 36 | 1.5 months | 12/2/2009 | 3 | depression/SAD | extreme increase in sex drive (to the point where I can't concentrate), sometimes have weird thoughts and paranoia when it begins to wear off at night | I take 150mg every morning. It helps keep me peppy during the day, but later at night when it begins to wear off I sometimes have strange or disturbing thoughts (I also have OCD so that might contribute to this). The increase in sex drive has been annoying; I had a very active one to begin with and now it's hard for me to concentrate on my work during the day sometimes. | F | 21 | 1.5 months | 11/20/2006 | 2 | depression/anxiety | word loss (would be speaking and couldn't find the right words). | I tried Wellbutrin XL at 150 mg for amonth, and didn't notice anything, good or bad. After doing more reading, I thought maybe I should try the "therapeutic dose" of 300 mg. Again, didn't feel anything really positive. Then I started feeling the word loss issue, which is completely unacceptable for a writer/speaker. | F | 39 | 1.5 months | 9/30/2007 |