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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR WELLBUTRIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | depression | none at all | Energizes me and makes me not be depressed. I tried the SR and XL versions and they made me feel terrible--anxious, nauseous, and just "not with it." Now on just plain Wellbutrin 100 mg. in the a.m. and feeling great. No more depression and lots of self confidence. It didn't help with anxiety though. Taking a small dose of antianxiety med in the evening. This combo works great for me. | F | 45 | 1 years | 8/26/2009 | 5 | Depression | No bad side effects at all. I am able to sleep better, I have more energy, I can focus and get things done, I don't have as much of an apatite and have lost a little weight, increased sex drive, much more optimistic, and reduced back pain. | I think this drug is amazing. I was having a lot of problems with focusing on getting school work and other things done and had no motivation to do anything but lay in bed. Now I can't find enough to do. I am able to focus and get everything done. I am more orginised and motivated. I had had almost no sex drive for awhile which is not normal for me and this boosted it right back. I don't get angry so easily and it has improved my relationships with my boyfriend and family. I had been having trouble sleeping and now can sleep easily. I don't worry all the time. And I used to get really bad back pains from being on my feet all day and now that is almost gone altogether. | F | 21 | 1 months | 8/24/2009 | 5 | Depression, Excessive hunger | Dry mouth-for the first few weeks or so | I truly believe that Wellbutrin has saved my life. | F | 22 | 3.5 years | 8/13/2009 | 4 | depression, anxiety | anxiety was increased the first week or so, mania!!, jittery, "too much coffee" feeling, racing thoughts, increased imagination!! increase in sex drive, horrible tremors, spacey feeling, headaches, leg twitches for no reason, first week- restlessness, unable to fall asleep, stomach cramps, increased appetite, bad morning breath, | Wow- a LOT of changes on this med. I started taking it for anxiety and depression when I was last hospitalized. They put me on it as well as prozac "Wellbutrin will help your sex life" was basically what he was telling me... and I do have a sex drive back. The first few nights on it I was a manic mess! I was everywhere- bouncing off the wall- I actually knew what mania felt like! Jittery coffee feeling. I'm a photography and the horrible tremors made it very difficult for me to work. I was very self conscious because I was so shakey... I look like I have Parkinson's disease! (I'm not joking...) I had terrible stomach pains the first 2 weeks, I was "hit" while in the grocery store, and my boyfriend had to put me in the cart because I couldn't walk through the pain... this subsided though. Headaches every day, I suffered dry mouth at first, horrible taste in mouth in the mornings. on a good note, I have not been this happy with life since in 5 years. | F | 20 | 3 weeks | 8/13/2009 | 3 | ADD/Depression | Fatigue, nausea which kicks in after I eat, decreased appetite, brain feels foggy. | First of all, I didn't think I was depressed, but my Doctor seems to think I am. Personally, I think I just have ADD. He prescribed me Concerta first for ADD and after I completely wigged out when I took that, he came up with this new theory that I hate my life and my job is stressful. I mean, whose job isn't stressful? Anyway, I have only been taking this for 3 days, so these symptoms might go away in time. I threw up today after eating lunch and have had to suppress the urge to gag today. I feel really tired and unlike other people on here, I sleep really well. In fact I slept through my alarm this morning. I can't focus at work and that is an issue since my job requires concentration. I mean, I was having trouble to focus before this, but now I am even more easily distracted. I have deadlines people! I need to get my mind right if I don't want to lose my job. | F | 25 | 3 days | 8/12/2009 | 2 | depression/fatigue/ADD symptoms | Worst acne of my life | My experience exactly mirrors this writer's: ". . . I was able to feel energized and 'normal'. BUT, then the nasty side effect kicked in. After about a week and a half of taking Wellbutrin I began to break out with horrible acne, some of it cystic. I felt I couldn't leave the house because of it. I went off this medication and my skin cleared up in a few weeks." | F | 42 | 2 weeks | 8/12/2009 | 5 | weight loss | Decrease in appetite. I actually have food left on my plate after a meal. Get full after 2 to 3 bites. Bad taste in my mouth only in the mornings. Nothing Crest and Listerine hasn't been able to fix. A little spacey, but not bad enough to stop the 2 (150ml) doses per day. No problem going and staying asleep. No sexual changes. | After i lost my mom the bingeing started. Hopefully W/B will continue to keep my over bearing appetite at bay long enough to lose the weight i gained in mourning. I was taking 1 a day but on PMS week I take 2 because I eat like a horse on salty and chocolatey junk foods. Not even adipex nor ephedra has been able to conquer my bingeing during PMS...Boyfriend says im easier to get a long with. I no longer pester him about our 13 year relationship & i havent gotten a ring nor a proposal. Nothing really even matters. Focusing wonderfully at work. not so much at school tho. Don't know why. Drastically curves cravings for sweets. Dry mouth. So drink a lot of water. | F | 31 | 3 weeks | 8/7/2009 | 5 | ADD | Not sure of the side effects of the Wellbutrin. Probably effects from other meds I have tried Effexor, Remeron. | Clears my head, I don't get stuck staring at things and day-dreaming(especially while driving). | M | 35 | 2 years | 8/4/2009 | 3 | depression, anxiety, weight gained | changes in vision (subsided after first 3 weeks), gained weight, coffee-like spastic effect on mood | i changed from effexor to wellbutrin (i was on generic, 300mg i believe) because i thought effexor was causing me to gain weight and had heard horrible stories about people coming off of effexor. the wellbutrin was a fine transition, and to be honest i could never really tell if it was working or not... i felt a bit better when i was on it, but i'm not sure if it was placebo effect or not. i tried not to care about the weight i had gained (20 lbs, went from 132 to 154 and am 5'7") and attributed it to the effexor (yet could never lose it on wellbutrin, and gained the last 8lbs on wellbutrin). it made me a little spastic and hyper (like after drinking a lot of coffee), yet the depression had subsided. after about a year, i was convinced that it really wasn't doing all that much so i just stopped taking it one day, cold turkey. i had one headache coming off of it, but no other problems. depression never returned, and i had no crying spells or anything coming off. in the last 8 months coming off of it i never weighed myself (i was super busy with school), but my mom just saw me and told me i looked so skinny. i think i finally lost all of the weight i had gained on anti-depressants even though i didn't change a thing. (in fact i think i exercised more when i was on them... i've always eaten well, i love healthy food.) it wasn't a bad experience per se... and probably what i needed at the time. it just changes your body chemistry a bit... in mo | F | 23 | 12 months | 7/21/2009 | 5 | Depression, adult adhd | dry mouth | Incredible, I am a new person. | M | 61 | 6 weeks | 7/19/2009 | 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 | 3 | depression | itching | I've been on prozac and wellbutrin for about 3 years to treat depression. Ever since I started taking these meds I constantly have itchy skin and sometimes hives. When I scratch, I develop red marks and sometimes welts. Allergist perscribed Zyrtec to help with itching. Psychiatrist says the prozac and wellbutrin are not the cause, but after reading everyone's posts, it sounds like the wellbutrin is the culprit. In the past four months I've started having hip pain and wonder if it is being caused by the Zyrtec. I'm tired of the itchy skin...it's unbearable if I don't take the Zyrtec; but long term use of Zyrtec, I believe, is causing my hip pain. | F | 40 | 4 years | 7/2/2009 | 3 | Anxiety mild depression | well the first 4 days lots of energy.anxiety increase tight chest,headaches.nasea,decrease in appitite,foggy feeling. | ok I have been taking this drug for 5 days now so far it's ok but I feel really anxious.I hope it get's better and not worse.no mood swings,no crazy episodes I'm sick of all the other SSRI's I hope this works.I hate taking pills but I also hate having anxiety and panic attacks and depression.I wish there was a perfet pill but I guess there isn't.can anyone tell me if this med is working for them cause all I have read about is negative? | F | 33 | 5 days | 6/25/2009 | 3 | major depressive episode | On Lexapro 10mg for 2 wks. Slept all day and all night, and ate. Told my doctor this was not an option for me as I had to work and I think I gained 8-10 pounds in 2 wks. She changed me to Wellbutrin XL 150mg. First three days were really nice. Showering for the first time in two weeks, able to do a couple of loads of laundry. Actually, just happy to be awake all day instead of sleeping 22 hrs a day, from the couch to the bed, to the couch again. Slight anxiety increase at times, some blurred vision, diarrhea on first day. Maybe from stopping the lexapro? Appetite decreased. Days 5-6, energy level started to decrease, disappointingly. Now on 8th day of Wellbutrin, a rash has gotten progressively worse over the last two days. I thought it was maybe heat rash, on my forehead, face, neck shoulders and back, and itching under my skin. But started getting concerned when it kept spreading and then started itching and burning. Did buy the generic teva buproprion (Budeprion)xl 150mg. N | F | 38 | 8 days | 6/25/2009 | 4 | helped me stop smoking, no side effects, took it for depression, stopped working | F | 47 | 699 days | 6/23/2009 | 5 | Primarily anxiety / depression | Started out on 150mg/day - had trouble falling/staying asleep (1st week), easily distracted and spaced out a LOT (1st-4th week), lots of headaches (still experiencing), then came three weeks of intense suicidal thoughts (3rd-6th week). Survived that and doc upped dose to 200mg/day - suicidal thoughts finally went away, appetite increased, but now I have this bad/gross/disgusting taste in the back of my mouth/throat, ALL THE TIME. I didn't want to quit smoking but I might have to because I have a feeling the bad taste is somehow caused by the Wellbutrin+cigarettes, since the Wellbutrin also causes me to taste the cigarette smoke in my mouth in a way that I never have before. Bad, bad, bad taste. (Food tastes great though!) | I noticed a decrease in my social anxiety during the first month, but I believe that to be because I was too spaced out/distracted to be anxious in situations I normally would be. The anxiety has since returned, but it's less predictable now and sometimes I manage an entire day without experiencing it at all. I believe that curing my anxiety (if that's even possible) is going to involve a lot more work than just popping these pills every day, but I think the Wellbutrin has helped me on my way by practically curing my depression COMPLETELY. I can't explain it but I just don't think in the same patterns I used to, I've stopped having mood swings (and my relationship has hugely improved as a result of that). My sex drive is pretty wild, so no probs with that. I also have *extreme* bursts of energy and have begun exercising regularly again for the first time in 4 years! I can no longer go days without having the energy to take a shower - I shower every day and always feel motivated to take care of myself in ways I wasn't able to prior to taking this medication. Overall this medication has given me the energy/ability to do OTHER things that are helping me to get better, like exercising and getting out and spending time with people again. I haven't lost any weight yet but I feel a million times better physically as well as mentally. Yay WB. | F | 25 | 53 days | 6/22/2009 | 4 | borderline personality disorder | decrease in appetite, very strange, vivid dreams every night, dizziness, headaches, more energy, sweating more | It's helped me so far. I haven't been feeling as depressed and hopefully it will help me lose the weight that I gained on my previous meds (zoloft) | F | 16 | 1 weeks | 6/11/2009 | 3 | Rage Fits & Depression | Dumb, feel very dumb, can't remember stuff, words don't come out, unsocial, pit in your stomach sick with guilt for no reason, or feels like something is horribly wrong & don't know why... very detached some days | I've been on it for 2 years. I'm really starting to be concerned about the memory thing... My dad has memory issues, from today to 12 years ago - he can't remember stuff, like a switch, he can remember before 12 years ago.. can't remember what he did last week, like a concert or anything, and no one knows why, hes been for tests etc etc and i know he was antidepressants... one website listed this drug with memory & amneiza (can't spell), however, i don't have my rage fits as much, and my mood is better! way better! but i'm dumb.. | F | 33 | 2 years | 5/31/2009 | 3 | Depression | Sore joints, Muscle aches and spasms. Continued to get worse over time. Could barely bend my left arm anymore without serious pain. | I was placed on Wellbutrin to help with the side effects of Lexapro. It did help a lot, increased sex drive, and stopped the weight gain. But it was not to last, after the 7-8 week I was not right. I had a feeling it was not the Lexapro causing this muscle problems. Since I have now been off the Wellbutrin for about 6 weeks, my arm is almost normal. No more muscle aches. I guess I was right. | M | 57 | 10 weeks | 5/30/2009 |