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| 4 | Depression | It has definitely helped my mood. I do sometimes feel sad, but I am not teary all the time anymore. I have been taking it for 9 months and have lost 15 pounds. Some of the weight loss is due to the Wellbutrin, some is due to increased activity and exercise. (I needed to lose a few pounds.) The weight loss has made me feel better about myself. I had been taking Lexipro prior to the Wellbutrin and gained 10 pounds. | F | 50 | 9 days | 12/27/2007 | 2 | Depression | This is the only antidepressant I've taken that didn't have alot of side effects. It had only mild withdrawal. | I started taking 150mg and then went to 300mg once daily. I was taking this for 5 months but it helped very little. | M | 27 | 5 months | 12/27/2007 | 4 | Adha | Weight loss | it's awesomeness | F | 24 | 365 days | 12/23/2007 | 5 | depression & ADHD | none | This is the first antidepressant I've tried that allows me to still feel like myself! I can concentrate better & I am more motivated. By the way, for those who report shakiness/twitching or other weird things, you're probably taking too much. The one time that WXL gave me any problems like that was when I was on a strict diet for a figure competition. I switched to regular (not extended release) buproprion while I was dieting, and everything was fine again! Now I'm back on WXL though. | F | 24 | 2.5 years | 12/19/2007 | 3 | Depression, Anger Outbursts | At 150MG: Very vivid dreams (kinda fun, actually), small headaches, trouble focusing my eyes, loss of appetite and weight loss (THANK GOD!). At 250MG: Racing heart, nausea, panicky feeling, severe loss of appetite. | I've was at 150mg for 5 weeks and I didn't really feel like it was doing anything except helping me lose the weight I gained during 2 weeks on Lexapro (which worked well but made my hunger insatiable.) My doctor raised my dosage to alternating taking one pill one day and two pills the next. It made me start feeling really panicky, like my heart was racing and I couldn't catch my breath, and my husband said I was being super moody and angry. I also got really nauseous so I called my doctor today and he has told me to go back down to only one pill a day (150mg). I'm frustrated though because I don't really feel like it's working for me, even though I've waited it out for 6 weeks... | F | 32 | 6 weeks | 12/19/2007 | 4 | Major depression | More energy, slight dry mouth (chewing gum helps), able to focus like never before, trouble falling asleep, interesting dreams, less craving for carbs & fatty foods. | I've never taken any kind of psych meds before, so I was nervous about the idea. But I was deep in the black hole some of you have mentioned and had trouble functioning socially, and was self-medicating by sleeping & overeating. In desperation I went to my doc and she put me on Well.XL 150. I was dubious, but in only 3 days I've felt better. I can start a project and actually finish it! My sex drive is coming back. I'm not craving sweets. I'll have to wait and see, but so far this is a lifesaver for me. | F | 45 | 3 days | 12/17/2007 | 3 | anxiety | Ringing in the ears, severe dizziness, nausea, mood swings, body aches, strange "zaps" in my "body" (kinda hard to explain, just like being mildly shocked every now and then), strange flashes of light when i close my eyes at bedtime, | i switched from Effexor to Wellbutrin about 2 years ago ... recently (last few months) i was upped from 150 to 300 mg. Slowly i started noticing dizziness/vertigo, nausea in the AM. I am a moderate drinker, and have recently quit ... it seems the vertigo is worse. Would love to hear from anyone experiencing the dizziness. | M | 35 | 2 years | 12/17/2007 | 3 | pain and muscle weakness | Dry Mouth, headache, slight abdominal cramps, no appetite, had energy the first 2 weeks. Urinations slower and lower back pain, crying, dizzy, forgetfulness, high anxiety; do not have any patience anymore and tend to "blow up." Each day seems different. One day,I am not hungry and cannot eat and the next day, I feel like I am starving. | I have now been on WELLBUTRIN XL 150 for 23 days. I am not the type of person to cry a lot, but find myself crying and depressed. I never took this medication for depression, but for pain. I was happy before I startd this! Anti-depressants are used for things other than depression and I am taking it for Fibromyalgia. I am getting the shakes and the headaches and lower back pain are still there. I hear popping sounds in my head every now and then - weird! I called the doctor and he has increased the dosage to 150 mg twice a day. It has started waking me up after 4 hours and I take 10 mg. of AMBIEN at night! So, I wonder what taking another 150 mg. at night will do! I just WANT MY HAPPINESS BACK because I WAS NOT A DEPRESSED person before this and am NOW depressed. BUT, it has helped the muslce weakness and pain in my arms. It has generally helped my over all body pain somewhat. I see where some people say they drink alcohol with this. I think this increases a "chance" | F | 56 | 23 days | 12/13/2007 | 4 | Anxiety | I've been on wellbutrin XL once before for about 6 months for depression. I had loss of appitite, increased sex drive, a little weight loss, blurred vision, very tired but i had NO insomnia, and nausea | F | 18 | 1 months | 12/12/2007 | 4 | Depression | shaking/twitching, especially when doing precise work with my hands(like threading a needle-impossible);loss of appetite(used to eat A LOT);only 2 headaches in a month of taking it; brain zaps like everyone else; THE WORST IS THE ITCHING! I shave my head regularly and have NEVER had red bumps on my scalp...now they are all over. Just hoping that one goes away after a while. Anyone know about that? | Im taking the 300mg WXL and weigh 160..lost 5 lbs now 155 after 1 month. The only effect I cant live with is the itchy scalp. So far its only the scalp though. It does help with focus, motivation, and my depression..but I may have to cut back to the 150mg. No sleep loss and the dreams are pretty vivid. Oh, and I don't drink now or smoke(quit way before taking)and the sex life is the same as always. Caffeine has NO effect. | M | 29 | 1 months | 12/12/2007 | 4 | Depression/Anxiety | Increased energy at night, stronger orgasms, beginning to think more clearly than before (lifting the "cloud"), | I am not having many side effects. I would say that I am slightly more jittery at times, but I have just started taking it. I am also taking .50 mg (per day) of Xanax for the first 30 days with the Wellbutrin to ease the transition. I highly recommend doing so! | M | 24 | 5 days | 12/11/2007 | 4 | depression | 150mg-(7days) first 4 or 5 very wired and chatty. 8th day started 300mg reaction not as severe as at first.Think I'm having chest pains on and off now. | I was given a genaric form of wellbutrin XL when I swithched to 300mg. Asked DR. to write new prescription and make sure I got the "real thing" this time because I don't belive genaric is the same.Feel pretty good although I get sleepy mid day and also around 7pm (but NOT tired when I go to bed- sometimes). | F | 38 | 1 months | 12/10/2007 | 3 | depression | irritability and no motivation and trouble going to sleep. | I am only on my 10th day of 150mg soon to go to 300mg after 3 weeks. I am hoping that in the next couple of weeks I will feel better and the irritability will go away along with having more energy and sleeping better. | M | 31 | 10 days | 12/10/2007 | 5 | Major Depressive Disorder | WELLBUTRIN XL Brand drug, NOT GENERIC - 450mg daily (3x150's) On a regular basis: decreased appetite*, increased sex drive. Semi-regular basis: mild dry mouth. Rare: Severe dry mouth which lasted one day, within 3 weeks of starting treatment. Anxiety/irritability onset with excessive caffeine use. *When I forget to eat, I usually can't think very clearly, feel a little nauseous, and get a little shaky and tired. All are a result of low blood sugar, naturally. | I will only use the brand drug! After about 6 months of juggling back and forth between the brand and generic drugs (based on pharmacy availability), I realized that I still had depression, but only when on the generic! After resuming brand use, felt back to normal in only 2 days. I've cut back on caffeine intake (still drink ~one cup coffee/day) because I get really or anxious if I drink too much, which didn't occur prior to using wellbutrin. | F | 24 | 1 years | 12/5/2007 | 2 | Depression | depression symptoms, loss of appetite, and overall feeling of sadness and a loss of will to live. | I felt good the first day of taking this medicine because I had no side effects (physically). A few days later I was really sad and felt depressed actually. Before I was really angry and irritated and moody- that went away and I just started crying all the time and was worried more. I got off Paxil and I also tried: Zoloft, Prozac, Lexapro, and now Wellbutrin. I guess I'm a lost cause because it seems like nothings going to work! See, I'm so depressed! | F | 29 | 6 days | 12/3/2007 | 4 | anxiety | constipation , headache, nervousnes, increased libido(good), increased energy(good) sometimes hard to think straight and sometimes find myself zoning out. | I started at 150mg once daily , first week felt better than ever but second week not so good until a month later when I went up to 300mg 3 weeks after that really started to kick in. Give this medication time to work . So much better than lexapro which I was on for a year because lex. has to much side effects to list. Good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!! | M | 29 | 3 months | 12/1/2007 | 4 | depression bp II | Increased energy, lifted depression, more energy. Little nervous, then when I went from 150 mg to 300, got very irritable and mean. Wanted to shoot my husband for snoring - that kind of thing. | Jury is still out on whether this will work for me. I like the anti-depressant effects and energy, but can't stay married if it makes me so mean. Am hoping at 150 mg the irritability will be manageable. Nice weight management - no appetite. My libido is probably OK (except that I want to kill my husband...) | F | 47 | 2 months | 11/30/2007 | 4 | Depression, bipolar depression | Ears ringing constantly, fuzzy head, mood swings | Went from 150 to 300 to 450 mg per day, as at each step I felt it had stopped working. Added Lexapro 10 mg and mood swings subsided. Ran out of Wellbutrin a few days ago and couldn't get in contact with pDoc so I've been off of it for a few days. I feel much better mentally, clearer I guess, although more tired than usual. I don't know if I'm going to go back to taking it. | M | 26 | 2 years | 11/29/2007 | 5 | Depression, medium to high Anxiety | shaking/trembling, constipation | I started off taking various dosages of WXL, ended up taking 150 mg, then was moved up to 300, because it did not have any effects on me. I also take Lexapro 30 mg. When I first started taking the medication I had severe shaking. I would be sitting down and my whole body would shake, it was uncontrollable and annoying. I was also experiencing major constipation. I've changed my diet and now it's gotten much better. After trying many different medications Wellbutrin at the 300 mg works very well for me. I am able to get out of bed easily and get many things done. I also have stopped having mood swings and have stopped a lot of my negative thinking. I can now smile to strangers easily, something I would never do. The only remaining side effect I have now is the shaking. Every so often my body shakes but my hands shake on a daily basis. I hate it, it is very difficult to do small detail work. When I concentrate the most to keep my hands still, the shaking gets worse. I can say to those ou | F | 26 | 11 months | 11/28/2007 | 4 | Depression | Decreased appetite, head/hand tremor, sometimes lack of patience | Started 150/mg 7 days, then 300mg/day. Most side effects are subsiding, but they have always been tolerable, and worth the benefits. I am also taking 300mg Lithium/day even though I'm not bipolar, to counteract any mood swings/anxiety/sleeping problems, which I think it has. Have had increased energy, not a ton but I am getting things done which I didn't do before. A little weight loss, but nothing major. Some trouble falling asleep but had that before, am actually sleeping better. Was worried about headaches because I suffer from migraines, but ironically I have had less headaches and no migraines. Still have ups and downs but am feeling better and able to come out of bad days quicker. Have almost no fatigue anymore, which in all my life has never happened. I have taken EVERYTHING, you name it, this is the only one that has worked. They didn't want me to try this because of prior problems w/anxiety but w/the lithium added it has not been any worse. | F | 28 | 1 months | 11/26/2007 |