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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR WELLBUTRIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | depression, OCD, anxiety/social | Aggression,rage, extreme fatigue, apathetic, withdrew from social situations, crying all the time, inability to concentrate, migraines with nausea,anxiety,restlessness, autopilot and boredom. No problem sleeping, it gave me no energy | I have tried just about every med for depression. The only one that did any good was Paxil and it wasn't enough. I would come home from work and scream at everybody.i didn't realize, my husband pointed it out to me, as well as other family members. I just want to feel some sense of normal. It did however, make me a lil more assertive | F | 30 | 4 months 200 mg | 1/19/2015 | 2 | depression, anxiety, OCD | I started with 100mg and I'm currently taking 300mg a day. It hasn't improved my depression at all and I've had an increase in anxiety and panic attacks. It really helps with controlling the intrusive thoughts caused by OCD. The side effects are terrible:constant trembling hands, insomnia, very dry mouth all the time, restlessness, and it's hell on my eating disorder. | F | 19 | 4 months 300 mg | 9/26/2013 | 5 | depression, anxiety, OCD | Just a little weight loss... but no other side effects.. | F | 28 | 3 weeks 125 mg | 8/17/2013 | 4 | depression, PMDD, PTSD, OCD | I notice that almost everyone that is complaining about this drug is taking it more than once per day. My doctor has me on 100mg in the morning. He said not to take it after late morning. So far, I feel wonderful after replacing Prozac with this. I am a little on edge and can take 1mg of ativan to compensate. I have energy I have missed having for a year. I can walk a few miles a day again with the dog. I don't feel depressed at all. I feel like my normal self for the first time in 2 years. i would suggest if you are having horrid side effects to talk with your doctor about lowering the dose (as long as you are not depressed), and see if that makes the other side effects more manageable? I am also losing the weight that Prozac helped me gain. So far 5 pounds. No more night cravings or feasting. YAY! Good luck to everyone with your own personal fight to feel better!!! | I am wondering about using the name brand instead of the generic? I saw one clear comment that side effects seemed to lessen with the name brand. Also, anyone on this for PMDD? I have a wonderful strict vitamin regimen that has helped my PMDD for years that I created, but I am nervous about this first cycle on a new med. | F | 46 | 8 days 100mg 1X day | 4/7/2010 | 5 | depression and ocd | a few anxiety, brain fog, irritability. | best antidepressant ever taken. but it's better put in therapy with a mood stabilizer to avoid hypomania or mania. give me concentration, attention and help in solving problems. | M | 23 | 5 months | 9/1/2009 | 1 | ocd, depression, smoking cigs | dizzy, light headed, heart raced, could not breath properly, minor sweating, anger, EXTREME anxiety, EXTREME mood shifting | WOW... I felt like I was on a trip...a Dizzy trip in the morning about 1 hour after taking it and it lasted for 3 hours. (150mg 2x per day at 7-8hr seperation). At the beginning of taking this medication, I was very hyper, always cleaning, finishing up college work, doing lots of things in stead of just sitting around being sad. That lasted for about 10 days. (I was at 150 for 3 days then upped to 300 on 4th). After a week or so, I actually felt as though I was loosing my mind. It was very scary. I didn't even want to explain what I was feeling to friends or family because it was freaky. Always dizzy, always nervous with extreme anxiety. Maybe what wellbutrin (and generic) do is create the ability for the brain to take in and process more data from using our normal sensory systems and it creates an overload and one of the ways to deal with an overload is to freak out and want to just close our eyes. This, I can understand....what I don't understand is that this medication is not consistent with a lot of people. One week it is great, the next week it can be an igniter for battles between loved ones, friends and your very own self. Three days off the stuff, alive, smiling, eating better, working 2x per day, going for walks with my puppy...and most importantly...living only in the NOW. Don't borrow trouble from the future! reality doesn't want to hurt you...it's too busy trying to understand what its reality is! | M | 31 | 3 months | 7/19/2009 | 1 | Depression, OCD, Anxiety | I started hallucinating, I was apathetic, paranoia, decreased appetite, rage, fatigue. | This medicine put me in a psych ward. | M | 16 | 4 months | 7/12/2009 | 4 | depression with a touch of OCD | Constipation, dizziness, inability to speak without fumbleing my words, lightheaded | I have been on Zoloft for about a year. I had lost all sex drive/ability to have orgasm with partner or alone which was my number one complaint. After just a week I already feel labido getting better. | F | 37 | 7 days | 9/17/2008 | 4 | smoking/possible anxiety/ocd | The first week I felt a little woozy I think, can't remember much. Cigarettes tasted horrible and made me nauseous. That went away after a few days and I felt fine, continued smoking like normal. | I'm taking the generic. First week - 75mg. Second - 150mg. Third and forward - 300mg in the AM. The smoking cessation property is just starting to kick in after 3-4 weeks. This week my smoking has gone down from 15+ to 12,11,10, (a day) and today 1 cigarette as of now. | M | 25 | 3 weeks | 5/2/2008 | 2 | Anxiety/mild depression/mild OCD | all my severe sypmtoms of Aniexty came back, there was the shortness of breath or feeling like an elephant was constantly sitting on my chest, there was panic attacks, racing heartbeat, paranoia, the obessive thinking came back, difficulty swallowing when eating, constant panic and then there were some new ones like clenching my jaw without realizing it, no appetite, feeling of hopelessness and like I would die at any moment, feeling like there was a lump of food in my throat all the time that wouldn't come out, feel like I drank a lot of coffee. BUT...I already felt an increase in libido and wetness down there (which was what I got on this med for) | So, from what I read below, I am going to keep trying this medicine, though I already stopped it per my doctor's orders after just the first 4 days because after just that short period of time I had all those side effects I just mentioned! I freaked out. But then again, my doctor did not warn me about any of these side effect and she did not ween me slowly onto this medicine. I jumped right in at 150mg. Clearly, that was too much too soon. So I am going to try again, only very slowly and with a small dosage, increasing it by 50 weekly and see what happens. Maybe my body just needs to get used to it. I hope that's the case. I really want this drug to work because I see other people are thriving with it. I am also on Zoloft (after being on Paxil for 5+ years) and both those drugs make me have NO sex drive. I got on this to counteract that, but it is worth all these crazy side effect? I'm not sure. Please contact me if you have a similar experience or advice. | F | 23 | 6 days | 12/20/2007 | 4 | OCD/ADHD/Mild Depression | Anger, rash, good sexual side effects... | On 150 mg. of Wellbutrin XL for 3 weeks - first week - no side effects at all, second week - really bad anger (that went away), third week, a small patchy rash on my forarm that I at first thought was poison ivy, which has now gone away. Also in the second week, notice that sex is much more enjoyable, I am much more sensative when it comes to climaxing, I don't necessarilly want sex more often, but sex is better. I haven't had any loss of appetite, or increase in appetite, just been normal. I was on Paxill for 3 months before Wellbutrin and that was a living Hell. Dr. will up me to 300 mg. in two weeks. That's good because now that it seems to be in my system, I don't feel like I am taking anything. I will let you know how it goes. | F | 36 | 3 weeks | 10/1/2007 | 1 | anxiety/ocd/lack of sex drive | My panic increased ten-fold 45 minutes after swallowing the pill. I had to take 2 mg of clonazepam just to calm down. It made my world a wacky, incoherent, scary place. | I've had friends with anxiety and depression disorders who have found wellbutrin to work wonders. I'm not trying to put others off. I was having an absolute lack of a sex drive and wellbutrin was given to me along with my celexa to increase my "sexability"- there was nothing sexy about it- I panicked. I know how scary these meds can seem, if it's prescribed & you're worried- maybe start with a low, low dose & work your way up. | F | 32 | 1 days | 9/6/2007 | 3 | Smoking / Mild OCD | Decreased appitite, dizziness, shakey, and dry mouth. | I like how after a week on Welbutrin XL I just didn't feel like smoking anymore and i have smoked for 7 years. I had decreased appitite which i didn't mind, at first i had to force myself to eat, then it started to gradually come back. I catch myself getting dizzy sometimes and I am very Shakey. The first week when I was still smoking i could not even hold my hand steady enough to light the ciggarette and a coworker noticed my hand shaking when i was moving the mouse. The WORST side effect and the main reason I am quitting is the dry mouth. Not everyone gets this but mine is so bad i am drinking probobly 12 glasses of water a day. Not only is it just uncomfortable I am constantly chewing gum because I am afraid I will havy stinky breath from the dry mouth. Overall I could live with all the other side effects, if I didnt have this dry mouth (which didn't occur till about the second week) I would definatly keep taking this product. | F | 20 | 21 days | 1/7/2005 |