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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR WELLBUTRIN XL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | Depression/Anxiety | CONSTIPATION! No other side effects | I think its helped a little with my anxiety. In the first week it was giving me more energy but not anymore:( | F | 35 | 3 months 150mg 1X day | 7/3/2010 | 5 | Depression and anxiety | Sleeplessness,Energy in the morning when i wake up, better attitude | I use Wellbutrin with the combination of Trazadone at night time to help me sleep. The combination is wonderful. | F | 28 | 5 years 150mg 1X day | 6/30/2010 | 4 | depression | Hypertension | I never had a problem with my blood pressure until I switched to XL, and have switched back to SR. BP immediately dropped back to normal. | F | 33 | 3 years 450 mg 1X day | 6/30/2010 | 5 | Depression/PCOS | Early on - tin taste in mouth, trouble sleeping, difficulty concentrating | Was put on Wellbutrin for depression issues related to PCOS. I have been on it a few times and the XL works wonderfully for me (I am on the generic brand). The side effects are really frustrating for the first few weeks (up to a month or so), but once they're gone it's all good. | F | 30 | 6 months 150 mg 1X day | 6/23/2010 | 5 | Depression and Anxiety | I don't remember any side effects even when I first started. I did lose some weight(I'm overweight) but it gave me more productive energy--not manic energy--so it's all good for me. | I have tried ALL the other types of medications for depression--Paxil, Celexa, etc. Most of them really increased my anxiety and Celexa made me feel VERY irritable, anxious and very suicidal. Wellbutrin XL is the only depression medicine I have ever taken that really works. | F | 49 | 1.5 years 300 mg 1X day | 6/21/2010 | 5 | major depressive disorder | Wellbutrin XL is the best medication I've ever taken for depression. HOWEVER, THE GENERIC IS NOT THE SAME. It is the only generic I've had very major problems with. My insurance company assures me it is the same. Well, they are not the ones who are taking it!!! I'm going to get the Brand name from a Canadian pharmacy where it is much less expensive and is still the original Brand name. Anyone who tells you the generic is the same does not know what they are talking about. My mood has gone from almost normal to extremely agitated, unhappy, irritable, anxious, and more depressed. | F | 62 | 6 months 300 mg 1X day | 6/3/2010 | 2 | Depression | Agitation, anxiety, fogginess, trouble concentrating, general weirdness. | I previously was on Celexa, for a year and a half. It worked great for my depression, but made me gain weight. So I got off of it, took nothing for a year, then decided to try Wellbutrin. My health care practitioner started me on 150 mgs. for seven days, then had me increase the dosage to 300 mgs. I initially was on the Teva generic. But I heard so many bad things about it, and felt so awful while on it, that I decided to get the name brand from Canada. (It's a fraction of the cost of what you pay for the GENERIC in this country!) At any rate, I just upped the dosage to 300 yesterday, and I do not feel so hot. I just feel weird. I do have lots of energy; I have been walking or bike riding every day. And I do feel motivated to eat healthy. But I just don't feel right on this med. I will give it another 4 to 6 weeks. If this doesn't pass, I am off of this stuff. | F | 53 | 14 days 300 MG 1X day | 6/3/2010 | 5 | Depression | Happiness, no more depression. | Though Welbutrin XL is my most highly recomended medication for depression, it does have one downfall... it is very expensive, even with insurance, and whoever says that the generic version of Welbutrin XL is the same medication, obviously didn't take it for themselves. The REAL Welbutrin makes me happy and less depressed, the generic however, made me very angry, tempermental, and very agitated. THE GENERIC IS NOT THE SAME MEDICATION FOLKS!!! So, if your going to try Welbutrin, make sure your getting the REAL Welbutrin. The difference is unreal!! | M | 31 | 6 months 150mg 2X day | 5/29/2010 | 5 | depression and ADD | I feel an overall great well being. I feel better than I have in years. More Energy, better concentration, more sociable, yup I am no longer a indoor sleep late watch tv weirdo anymore. I want to go do things all the time. This medication I truly believe has saved my life...I was on the brink just 4 days ago. | This is LONG but YOU will REALLY want TO READ THIS even if your not ADD and your just taking it for depression or anxiety. I think If you are ADHD/ADD and you take Adderall and your depressed this would be the perfect combination... I take both my medications in the morning and I can think clear focus and I am very happy all the time. If regular serotonin antidepressants don't work for you....Then maybe its because that neurotransmitter is just fine and they ones that need help are dopamine and nor-epinephrine...Wellbutrin is a dopamine and nor-epinephrine re-uptake inhibitor...So it makes your brain recycle and use more of its own chemical(dopa & nor).....This is the best antidepressant for me because i finally have an antidepressant that works on the right transmitters for me. Some people may have a different deficiency with either of their neurotransmitters..So the medications will not make you feel better and could make you worse, if you take the wrong antidepressant..Thats why there is the serotonin syndrome label.It is because people that are depressed from dopa deficiency are given serotonin which they have enough of so adding the medication increasing serotonin would cause and over load and make you suicidal. I think that is why doctors switch around antidepressants so much its because they are not really sure yet how these chemicals are reacting in our brain but they do know everyone is different and you can only get it right with trial and error. | F | 21 | 5 days 150 1X day | 5/27/2010 | 4 | Major depression/anxiety | Decreased appetite and constipation | Absolutely love this drug! I was suffering from major depression, after being on WB for 3 weeks I am feeling on top of the world. Before WB I was hiding in my bed all day now I'm up and off out. My husband is really pleased with the motivation I have now. I'm sharp and focused at work. It really has done wonders for me! | F | 44 | 3 weeks 150 mg 1X day | 5/27/2010 | 5 | Depression, mood disorder | Frequent urination, decreased appetite, increased physical energy, increased mental energy & focus, lights seemed brighter, food tasted stronger, could not tolerate sweet or salty foods,weight loss, increased sex drive, patience with family members & freinds, decreased road rage, major increase in productivity with work and home chores. | I was an emotional wreck, I made a doctors appointment with my family doctor and as soon as the doctor walked in I bursted into tears and began crying hysterically, I felt as though my life was so overwhelming, my relationships with family, freinds, and co-workers were on a rocky road, I had no patience with my children, I had no social life i would just stay home and eat or stay in bed, and to make it worse I would just cry and I had no idea why, it was a never ending sadness and when it started to effect my children I had to make a doctors appointment. My doctor told me I was depressed due to hormonal chages in women in their thirties, we have less eggs stored in our ovaries when we start to get into our thirties, we are not menopausal, we just have a decrease in estrogen and it makes us an emational wreck! I started the 150MG Wellbutrin and at first I had it in my mind that it was just a sugar pill doctors give patients. 2 weeks later I had so much energy, all of my senses felt stronger, after 4 weeks I began to look around my house and it was spotlees, my desk at work didn't have files all over and piles of work all over my office...You you first take the Wellbutrin it is like a claritin commercial everything is dark and foggy and once you begin your regimin everything is bright and sunshiny. My Wellbutrin regimen consist of 1 Wellbutrin 150mg once a day and one week before my period I must begin the 1 Wellbutrin 150 MG twice a day, I can say as a patient I am satisfied w | F | 32 | 9 months 150 mg 2X day | 5/25/2010 | 4 | Depression | On generic Bupropion - nausea, migranes, insomnia, lethargy. | Actual Wellbutrin is great... if you can afford it. Like most I take the generic Bupropion and quickly found that generic "fillers" DO make a difference. I recently changed prescription locations and my new Bupropion prescription makes me ill 24/7 - all of the side effects I never experienced previously. Found out the generics are made by several different companies and depending on what they use as fillers is the effect you will receive. What's worse is you cannot return the meds that are making you sick. So I'm not sure how you can find the generic that is right for you but do pay attention to the company who provides the generic versions every time you order. | F | 39 | 8 months 300 1X day | 5/25/2010 | 1 | depression | Enraged, agitated, felt like the top of my head was going to explode. If I'd had a rifle, everyone within rifle-range would have been dead. About every 20 seconds (I timed it) I thought people were pointing and laughing at me. I was enraged and agitated every 20 seconds. I wanted to die. The pharmacist said (this was some years ago) that most people lapse into a coma with this drug if they have a bad interaction. Me? I wanted to shut up and out the voices. I stopped taking the drug ASAP under protest of my therapist. It took months and months for the effects to totally dissipate. It was miserable and I made my small son afraid of me. I would not recommend this drug. At the time I was 43 years old. I still remember that drug with intense panic. I make sure I put my sensitivity to it whenever a form asks for drug allergies. | F | 54 | 5 days 15 mg 2X day | 5/25/2010 | 4 | Depression Anxiety | emotionless, hopelessness, isolated, felt like brain being squeezed. | I am currently on the TEVA brand of Wellbutrin XL. I know it has not worked very well for others, but I have to say it works so great for me. I actually tried a different generic brand (can't think of the name) and I could tell the release rate was a lot slower but it just wasn't doing the trick like TEVA was. I slipped quickly back into a depression. I have to say that TEVA does release the medicine faster than it should? but in my case, this is what my brain like. It eats it up NOM NOM and I am in a great mood and feel energetic. Increased sex drive and focus and motivation. | M | 30 | 5 months 150 mg 1X day | 5/21/2010 | 3 | Depression | I have only been taking it four day but I dont want to do anything I'm tired I'm still crying all the time. I havent been able to sleep and I'm always hungry. I want this to work so bad. I even made myself go to the gym today and was crying while working out that is insane! | F | 29 | 4 days 150mg 1X day | 5/20/2010 | 3 | Bipolar Disorder, ADD, Depression | On Generic: very aggitated, mood swings, anger, heart rate increase, shaky. Just started Brand Name (XL) today. | I asked Walgreens for the brand name & not the generic. However, I got the generic~ go figure. I cut the 300 MG in half for the first 8 days & I felt horrible. Increased urination, my stomach is so distended it's unreal, and I got into it with my neighbor over something completely ridiculous and feel like a crazy person now when I see her! So... I went back to Walgreens after doing some research on the generic & they actually were really great & exchanged it for the brand name without any trouble at all. When I got home last night I broke the 300 mg pill in half (before reading the directions- of course) when I realized that you are not supposed to break the brand name 300 mg XL tabs. Whoops. Today is my first day on a whole pill... So far I have turned the wrong way down a one-way street. The worst part is I used to live on that street... I yelled at my mom for no reason, feel a little paranoid, my vision is off & my stomach is distended. The stomach distention is the worst because it's a crazy hard boosting that I can't even suck it in! But I am determined to stick this out because I am convienced it is going to work for me! Like many of you I have tried every freaking other drug on the planet & either it didn't work or I blew up like the michelin man among countless other side effects. I am so sick of taking these drugs that don't help. I just want to be the normal, even tempered, nice person I know I am yet no one can see b/c I can't freaking contr | F | 29 | 9 days 300 1X day | 5/16/2010 | 2 | Depression | Insomnia, dizziness, blurred vision, sensitivity to light/motion, nausea, increased energy initially, light-headed, slight sore throat/hoarseness, decreased appetite | I was on the generic version for 16 days (bottle says "Global"?). 14 days at 150 mg and 2 days at 300 mg. The side effects got so out of control I had to stop. The insomnia started within a couple days. Pretty much every night I got about 3-4 hours of sleep. Finally got a sleep rx but that made me feel even foggier. The lack of sleep was a major problem for me as I get sick easily without sleep. Felt dizzy/light-headed most of the time, but had periods where it was really bad. Vision got blurrier over time and experienced extreme sensitivity to light and motion, to the point that even turning my head or seeing a cursor move across the monitor would make me feel sick. Have missed work due to the side effects. Was in a terrible haze stuck between exhaustion and alertness the whole time. Last 2 weeks have been hell. | F | 33 | 16 days 150 mg 1X day | 5/16/2010 | 3 | Every SSRI drug and Wellbutrin seem not to break deep feelings of suicide. I just don't what else to say. The feelings derive from a logic as to why I should live. Am I productive? Am I attractive? Will these things change? I have horrible physical problems, and have been prednisone for 39 years; since age 10. I was recently dumped by my wife, who I adored. | M | 49 | 7 months 450 1X day | 5/14/2010 | 3 | Post Partum Depression | extreme shakyness, twitches, vision changes, increase in anxiety, increased sex drive, hyper, loss of appitite, food is unappealing but i feel like im starving, still crave drugs, loss of balance, terrible insomnia, paranoia, worsend my OCD, joint pain, body aches. | helped my negative feelings towards my life and baby. i love my baby more than ever, im not ignoring her or feel hateful towards her. still am depressed about my life and where its going. lost 10lbs the 1st week on it. a little more desire to keep up with chores. | F | 17 | 4 weeks 300mg 1X day | 5/13/2010 | 5 | OCPD, Anxiety | Slight change in urination habits (related to slightly enlarged prostate after increasing dose from 150mg to 300mg daily) | Worked to level anger caused by control issues at 150mg/day. Still had problems with obsessive anxiety -- once dose was increased to 300mg/day, all anxiety issues vanished and regained much of focus lost due to ADHD. | M | 42 | 2 years 300 MG XL 1X day | 5/3/2010 |