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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR WELLBUTRIN XL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | anxiety (after child birth) | I have experience more anxiety from being overstimulated! My insides tremor when I'm laying still and I have bouts of dizziness. | This drug has added more problems than just the anxiety. I probably should have delt with the anxiety alone w/out drugs instead of adding three additional issues to my plate! The doctors really have no idea what they are doing, the just want a quick fix. | F | 35 | 1.5 years | 3/31/2007 | 5 | Please ANYONE who's insurance has switched you to the GENERIC WELLBUTRIN have your doctor write you a new prescription with the words "NAME BRAND MEDICALLY NECESSARY"!!!! The generic turned me into a maniac ...it happened to the nurse at my doctor's office also, the pharmacist said that if the doctor wrote out a new prescription with name brand medically necessary on it , the insurance company HAS TO PAY FOR IT NO MATTER WHAT>>>> There is somethin wrong with the generic form of this drug...do not take the generic..... it must be reported | F | 41 | 1 years | 3/30/2007 | 4 | depression | more energy, no appetite, some trouble falling asleep. | wellbutrin works well for depression. i like it better than the ssri meds because of the low risk of sexual side effects and lack of weight gain. one thing i have noticed is that i have no appetite at all on 300 mg. i stil get hunger pangs but they dont bother me and i have no desire to eat. | M | 26 | 2 weeks | 3/30/2007 | 5 | Depression/loss of energy | The good:weight loss,appetite control,increased libido :), feel like old self, bouncy and happy with lots of energy! Puts me to sleep for the 1st 3-4hrs The Bad:wake up after 3 hrs! | One thing i did notice is that when i 1st started i was put on 300mg, i became a nutcase!! Almost had to be admitted to a pysch ward! But, once i dropped down in the mg's and slowly climbed up to 300,, all was good again! Love the stuff!My poor husband is having a hard time keeping up with me tho when it comes to the intimacy dept,,which i never had a libido before. So we are definitly enjoying it. | F | 32 | 2 years | 3/29/2007 | 4 | workload caused depression/anxiety | WK1: by day 2 super increased energy & mood, insomnia increase (wake during night or nites of NO sleep), 1 laughing fit,1lb weightloss. WK2&3: jaw clenching dur sleep, newly acquired irritation/agitation - 6X/week, 2lb weightloss, incr libido (was near dead), less severe insomnia, incr appetite. WK4: better sleep (2 nite broken sleep, 1 nite no sleep), energy still up, mood better & more balanced, incr in libido, 1lb weightloss, some jaw clench day & nite. | 1st time on A.D. 5ft, 105lb Asian F w med-slow metabolism. Light smoker. Take 1 x 150mg WellbutrinXL. Took at 8pm but insomniatic nites. Now take 3pm. Will move to noon (not up before 11am). Dr suggest 1/day x 10 days then incr to 2/day if tolerant. Insomnia & irritation made me not up dose. BIG surprise was weighloss. At 5ft, 105lb ONLY way I lose weight is STRINGENT diet & exercise, which i'm not doing. With WBXL, unlike others on here, I've appetite increase, seek carbs & sweets. Even so, lost 4lbs. VERY happy. Feel best near 100lbs. NO decreased smoking - I'm light 2-4 cig/day smoker. Still want to and enjoy it. Jaw clench annoying when I find I'm doing it. Teeth taking beating, think am nite grinding too. Happy libido returning. Hubby happy too. Hope it incr even more. Glad irritation subsided. HATED that. Normally very uppity person, so was big downer. Dr suggest add 25mg Seroquel to enhance WBXL, better sleep BUT S.E's R fatigue & weighGAIN. Anyone w ex | F | 44 | 4 weeks | 3/28/2007 | 4 | | 3/28/2007 | 3 | depression | I was on it for 2 years and it helped a lot.then, I switched to the generic because of my new insurance and within 4 days I was in the hospital with stomach pain.I stopped taking it. it's 4 months later & went back on for depression & it caused a panic attack. I'm shaking and dizzy, I'm tired and tense. My GERD came back. I can't eat, I'm not sleeping well. the dr put me on 5 mgs of lexapro but that's not halping at all. I want to stop taking it all together but i'm afraid of withdrawal | The first time I took it, it was great and I felt like my old self again. I had a sex drive, and I was happy with my life. It didn't dull me out and I had no side effects. This time, it's awful. I can't wait to get off of it. The anxiety is constant. | F | 34 | 35 days | 3/26/2007 | 2 | depression, anger | I cried for about two weeks after first going on. today was a bad day, I felt dizzy, high, and just plain strange. People kept asking me what I had taken to make me act this way. I can't concentrate, I oversleep, and I am EXTREMELY neurotic. Everything pisses me off. All the little things. I am trying very hard to control myself, but I just keep getting so frustrated. | I think I need to come off. | F | 17 | 4 weeks | 3/25/2007 | 3 | Anxiety, depression, bipolar II | At first it was not good coming off my lexapro, I was evil. I had to get off the lexapro that helped so much with the evilness because of the weight gain, the memory loss and it made me dyslexic at times. I take the wellbutrin with topamax and klonpin. Once the meds kicked in after a month or so it was a lot better, I was less evil and had a little bit of a sex drive which was a lot better than the nothing at all I had before. I have been on it for around 3 months now and all of the sudden I have extreme restless legs at night and I cry for no reason. I havent cried in 15 years probably. I am not a crier, I dont cry when people die or when I get hurt or anything so this is all out of the ordinary for me. It has become a problem at work because when I would normally be very assertive now I have to leave the room and go to the bathroom because I am going to start crying. I also just started the generic form of it this month, maybe that is what the problem is. I will contact my d | F | 30 | 3 months | 3/23/2007 | 3 | severe depression | vivid dreams, decreased appetite. | i have been suicidal for the last year and clinically depressed since 2001. i've been taking wellbutrin xl 150mg for 3 weeks and aside from a very minor "light" feeling (i don't feel quite as weighed down), my depression hasn't gotten any better. i just started 300mg of the generic wellbutrin xl this morning and i hope the increased dose will help. please email me if you have had a similar experience, or have any helpful advice. good luck, everyone! | F | 33 | 3 weeks | 3/22/2007 | 3 | Depression/Anxiety | After about 1 year on Celexa I weaned off it (because of the severe sexual side effects -low interest and useless erections) and started on Wellbutrin 6 weeks ago. Took 150mg for the first month and experienced; tinnitus, headaches, anxiety, fatigue, depression and chest disomfort. I've been taking 300mg XL for the past two weeks and the symptoms have gotten worse. Have experienced a lot of anxiety and a LOT of irritability. Sometimes feel as though I've been up all night long drinking strong coffee, real tired but amped up and on edge at the same time. On the good side my sex drive has improved greatly, my erections are much more reliable and their sensitivity has increased immensely. | I don't want to give up my sex life again but if the negative side effects don't improve I may have to give up on the Wellbutrin. I'm too anxious/irritable and my mood is too dark. I'm going to try hanging on for another 2-4 weeks to see what happens. | M | 43 | 6 weeks | 3/21/2007 | 5 | depression/perimenopause | I have only side effects that control my appetite, which is good, because I need to lose forty pounds. For those whose insurance requires the generic to be given, I say this: After a week and a half, I started to experience tremors, nausea, crying bouts, and extreme exhaustion, I was driven by extreme mood swings, from very excited, to extremely sad and crying. I called my doctor's office, and the nurse was taking the same medication as I was, and she said when they switched her to generics she had the same side effects as I did. I called the pharmacist and he said that my doctor will have to write another prescrition only this time, put on it "Name Brand Medically Necessary", once the pharmacists submitted this to the insurance, they HAD to cover my prescription for the name brand Wellbutrin XL. And they still only charged me the co-pay. So anyone experiencing these symptoms, get your doctor to tell the pharmacy to make it medically necessary for you to get the name | F | 40 | 10 months | 3/19/2007 | 5 | depression/mood swings | This is a timed release drug, anyone using the 150 mg then switching to the 300 mg dose, you will see significant difference in only a matter of weeks, or at least hopefully you will. Several of my friends take this and it took them the same amount of time as I did to feel the difference, after six months of being on it, I look back and cannot even believe the person before was actually me. I am back to the old me, only better. I feel the fog lifted, I enjoy my family life more, I am energetic, and I don't feel strange. It has helped me significantly. It makes me still feel like me, only without the sadness and severe mood swings. I am going through pre-menopause at 41 years of age. I cannot take hormone therapy because it makes me violently ill, and I am also afraid of the terrible side effects from HRT or other hormone treatments. The side effects of Wellbutrin are only positive for me, and my husband and kids think I am back to my old self, before the mood swings and depress | 41 | 10 months | 3/19/2007 | 2 | depression | I have felt anxious and quite aggressive on this medication. Incidentally, I ma not of this personality type in terms of aggression. Has anyone else experienced this? | I had at one time been on Wellbutrin SR at one time, and reacted much differently to it. | M | 53 | 30 days | 3/18/2007 | 2 | depression | I have felt anxious and quite aggressive on this medication. Incidentally, I ma not of this personality type in terms of aggression. Has anyone else experienced this? | I had at one time been on Wellbutrin SR at one time, and reacted much differently to it. | M | 53 | 30 days | 3/18/2007 | 5 | depression | It was working but then I got prescribed the generic and it has not been the same. I don't know what's up, do I need to let the generic kick in or what? I am extremly irritable also, and I feel lazy. | M | 24 | 5 days | 3/17/2007 | 5 | depression | slight headache | Has anyone taken Wellbutrin XL along with Zoloft? How was it? | M | 56 | 8 days | 3/16/2007 | 5 | chronic depression, social anixety | More alert, no change in weight or libio | I wanted to contribute my own experience because I found this site helpful when I was considering Wellbutrin. I have had chronic depression and have social anxiety. I started on 150 XL for about 3 weeks and then went to 300. Generally it has worked well for me. I was taking lexapro and although it helped me not feel so depressed, it made me quite tired. I would nap as often as I could. It seemed to effect the way I dealt with thing throughout the day by seemingly making everything o.k. to the point that a lot of things didn’t matter. Welbutin on the other hand has had an almost opposite effect. Rather than being tired, I’m more alert. My expectations were high (magic pill) in part because of reading mostly just the highly rated comments on this site. I was trying to look positively at things. On that note, I would recommend readers to consider a fair sample of all, good and bad, experiences others have had (everyone’s different). I had expected to eat less and have | M | 50 | 5 weeks | 3/13/2007 | 1 | depression, ptsd | what side effects didn't I experience? | This drug was completely ineffective for me. I was taking it primarily for ptsd. It has made me MORE suicidal, and in addition, it's made me homicidal and extremely angry (prior to taking it I was an extremely calm person). I have experienced extreme agitation, anger and depression in addition to some extremely bizarre physical side effects. I have discontinued this medication for a month now and the physical side effects have gone away but I still feel worse. Don't take it. It's evil. | F | 31 | 4 days | 3/13/2007 | 5 | chronic fatigue | First few weeks headache and a bit foggy. Constant dry mouth. Higher sex drive. Trouble sleeping for the first 3 weeks but no longer fatigued. | I cannot drink more than 1 drink at happy hour. I had 2 and it felt like 5. Then I got a severe headache and started shaking for about 30 mins about an hour after the drinks. | 30 | 35 days | 3/12/2007 |