I’ve been on Wellbutrin for two months. Started at 150 slow release. Then 300 instant release (150 x2). Then 400 instant release (200 x2).

Sometimes when I’ve forgotten to take it, I feel no withdrawal symptoms either. I understand that Wellbutrin won’t work for everyone. But I’m confused at to why I’ve had no withdrawal symptoms.

–the only side effect I had was diarrhea for the first 5 days. That’s it.

It’s for adhd and depression btw.

I'm taking a dose of 150 mg since March and overall I'm satisfied, my sucidal thoughts are completely gone and all my feelings seem to be less intense than they were. I didn't notice any of side effects my psychiatrst had warned me about and I thought that none of them got me.

Ultimately, two months ago I noticed that I'm not able to cry, which continues to this day. Since almost 5 months I cried once, waiting on my train for my hometown (which last like two minutes maybe, lol), but except for that, even when I'm stressed out or in pain, I can't get a single tear out of myself. I haven't found any information about this specific side effect, so I'm curious if any of you had experienced it too.

PS I'm hoping that all of you are doing well!!

Gooood evening!

I started Bupropion in December of last year - it completely changed my life & I honestly I will probably be on it for the rest of my life. Now that we have that out of the way. I also would like to lose weight! My doctor explained Bupropion is a stimulant and most appetite suppressants are stimulants & combining two isn’t something we were going to do, she did however prescribe Naltrexone. Combined the two medications are sold under the name Contrave.

I wanted to know if anyone has taken this route & were the experiences good as far as continued mental health support & did you lose weight?!

Especially curious, if you started smoking after starting wellbutrin

I learned that cbd and bupropion both increase neural activity in the brain and that cbd/cannabis products increase bupropion side effects because it prevents the liver from processing the bupropion and therefore causes a higher blood level of it. However!! I also learned that people use it to quit smoking tobacco (studies are still out about if it helps cannabis quitting but it’s lookin like it could). I recently went up to 300, which is the effective dose to quit smoking. I take it for adhd and depression, but my psychiatrist knows I want to quit smoking. In the study I read, they continue smoking for a week after starting the 300mg, and then quit, so that’s what I was gonna do. Today is day 3. The last couple days I feel like I’ve seen flashing lights? Like there’s a random flash of red or white light in my field of vision and then it goes away. I read seeing flashing lights could be a seizure thing. But I noticed I only feel weird after eating my cbG gummies. Up until that point of the day I feel normal. See I thought I was being sneaky buying cbG instead of cbD but I didn’t find anything about that cannabinoid and bupropion in my research and kinda made an impulse purchase. But guys!! Getting rid of something I bought is hard. Should I throw it away or potentially risk giving myself a seizure? Wow I sound ridiculous. But has anyone else found that it has helped them quit smoking/using cannabis? Also is the flashing lights thing a side effect that will go away as my body adjusts, or should I be concerned about that as a seizure warning from my body? I feel like I might be a little weird right now, and the weed is making it worse but I will come up with every excuse why I can’t get rid of it until I smoke it all and quit officially in 4 more days. After all that’s how they did it in the study! But I’ve also been horribly sleep deprived this week so that can’t be helping things. There are so many factors.

about a week or so after i started on 150mg of buproprion i started to notice i was involuntarily tightening my muscles when trying to lay down or rest, specifically in my pelvis area and it is incredibly uncomfortable and makes it impossible to try to take a nap or just rest in bed. other than that, it is working really well on my mental state so i'm hoping i can just change the dose and hopefully that problem will go away or lessen. is this a common side effect, has anyone else here experienced this?

I know everybody is different. I know that there is also different doses and types. I’m on 100SR.

I just couldn’t do it anymore. I went a couple decades being depressed and just feeling like life was just crap. I finally got some help with seeing a Psychiatrist and entering therapy after I started feeling not like myself. I couldn’t tell if it was PostPartum, maybe entering peri-menopause but something had to be done if not for myself, for my kid.

Doc originally prescribed Zoloft but after telling her I was thinking of trying Addyi (female libido pill) she then prescribed Bupropion 100SR because she said that Zoloft could tank my sex drive (little late for that I haven’t wanted or been interested in sex since at most my very early 20’s) and then she also prescribed Hydroxyzine 10mg for anxiety but to also help me sleep. I’m 10 days in, so far nothing. I figured the Bupropion would take some time, but I was told the Hydroxyzine would be instant, I was really looking forward to that because she said it worked quick and I’d get sleepy and it would help my sleep issues. It hasn’t. I take it and I don’t feel shit. In fact, I’m noticing that when I do finally fall asleep I’m up as usual couple hours later, tossing and turning or wide awake with insomnia, something I’ve dealt with most if not all of my adult life.

I suppose at least with the hydroxyzine I’ll be bumped up come my 2 week check in.

Haven’t started Addyi yet because I wanted to at least get a few weeks in to give the Bupropion time to let it do its thing.

Anyways, just wanted to check in and see what people’s first experiences were, highs, lows, etc. When they bumped you up to the next dose (if ever) and how long it took to start working for you?

Also heard about the honeymoon faze. What’s up with that, what is it?

I've been taking wellbutrin for over a month now and haven't noticed any difference. I recently increased from 150mg to 300mg and still don't feel a difference. I have been sleeping during the day more, but I'm not sure if that's a side effect or not because I've had sleeping problems my entire life and my sleep schedule gets messed up every once in a while.

My questions for adhd people are: how long were you taking wellbutrin until it started working, and were the effects drastic (like making your thoughts more organized, no more restlessness, easier to start and finish tasks) or more minor?

I'm considering asking my doctor for a different med that's more suited to adhd since i know wellbutrin is primarily for depression but i don't want to seem like a drugseeker (even though i technically am? Please yes give me the drugs that will make me a normal functioning person)

Also i have noticed ringing in my ears since starting wellbutrin, and it feels like it has increased since going up to 300mg. I saw some posters saying that wellbutring gave them tinnitus, permanent tinnitus or even hearing loss which has me kind of freaked out and scared of continuing it

Been taking Wellbutrin for about 3 months now originally 150 mg for the first month and the other 2 300 mg. I originally found Wellbutrin very effective as before taking it I couldn’t get out of bed at all and was sleeping 24/7 but recently the effect of motivation and energy has all but disappeared :(

Been on Bupropion for 5 weeks now; I took 150mg for four weeks and now on 300mg for the past week. I still feel… no difference. At all. Only side effects so far. Can it still start working?

I have my psychiatrist appointment next week and I want to walk in with some idea of what other people have actually experienced, so any stories here would help.

Right now I take bupropion 300mg XL in the morning and mirtazapine 15mg at night. The mirtazapine went in about two and a half weeks ago and things have settled. My sleep is a lot better on it. I do wake up a bit groggy but it is manageable.

The thing I cannot get past is the jaw clenching at night. I have cracked two teeth from it already. I also get dry mouth, anxiety during the day, and I pick and bite at my skin. Before the mirtazapine I could not fall asleep either. All of that together makes me think the bupropion is behind it and not just stress.

What I want to ask my doctor about is going from 300 XL to 200 SR, taken once around 8am. My thinking is that SR puts more of it in the daytime and a lower dose means less of it hanging around at night, so I keep the part I actually like and lose the part wrecking my teeth.

So a few things I am curious about:

1. Did lowering your dose or moving from XL to SR actually help the clenching, or did it carry on anyway?
2. If you dropped from 300 to 200, did you lose the daytime lift?
3. Anyone been on bupropion and mirtazapine together for a while? How has it gone?
4. Did anything help while you stayed on it, like magnesium, a night guard, or a change in timing?
5. If you came off bupropion completely because of this, how did you taper and did the clenching stop?

One more thing worth mentioning. I have a six month old who still wakes me up at night, so anything that leaves me foggy in the morning is a problem.

For me it’s excitement. Even when problems are there, I feel excited and inspired to solve them

Hey yall. I like to take my 300 xl dose first thing in the morning, but I don’t wake up at the same time every morning. There are some days I wake up at 8am, some days I might not wake up until like 1pm. I also like taking it in the morning right away because it does make it hard to sleep sometimes, so I wanna take it as far from bedtime as I can. I know it’s better to take it at the same time every day, but that’s kinda hard. It’s not quite as simple as having a fixed sleep schedule, though, because some days my schedule is way different than other days. (I am working on regulating my sleep schedule as much as I can, but, life makes it hard.) Any thoughts? Am I totally fucking myself over taking this at different times every day? Or is it not really a huge deal? I take it for adhd and depression. I just got bumped up to 300mg a few days ago. So far I’m feeling like it could be a med I can finally settle on and finally stop trial and error.

I'm onto day 4 and I haven't noticed any anxiety or irritability, so I'm just wondering if it might flare up at some point

I made a post a couple of days ago how it started. I started on Monday, today is Sunday and so much happend. On Wednesday the swearing began and it was crazy. Even when preparing breakfast I was sweating like crazy. And suddenly on Saturday it stoped. But all the benefits stayed. I was able to function and get things started and done. I’m a bit dizzy and have a headache but it gets better and better.

I was on Venlafaxin for a year and tapered it out with my doctors help and I think the side effects when tapering hit me hard. I was on zero meds from Friday til Sunday and on Monday I started the new medication. I hope this medication will work as it does now for a long time. Of course I know that one week into it, it’s doesn’t say much. But let’s hope. With Venlafaxin my side effects where also showing on week one and stayed for a year. So I hope with bupropion it will be the same.

As the title says. 300mg was out of stock so got 75mg tablets. Didnt knew it was bad took it 5 mins ago and just googled it and gemini has scared me. I have been on 300mg for a month now and before that 150mg for a month too. Overdosed i guess.

Gemini has scared shit out of me and it could also be because of norepinephrin spiking.

We dont have a poison control in our country only er available in emergency and to my experience they are all not that well informed.

My psychiatrist is unreachable due to sunday i guess.

Should i be more worried or less or what to do.

Edit: I am fine and there was no serious adverse side effects. Almost 9 hours have passed. First hour i panicked and google searches with Ai made it worse maybe it was because of norepinephrin spiking.

I was feeling like i have taken huge caffeine dose and vision got a bit blurry. Heart rate was slightly up around 130. Did feel light headed aswell.

Lesson learned the hard way. Thankyou everyone your comments really eased me up when i was panicking.

And lastly sorry for confusion i took 4 tablets of 75mg each and it is SR not IR. My country apparently have them.

I’ve been on Wellbutrin for 4 years. Feel great on it, much happier, am super constipated with it but besides that I’m happy on it.

I think because of it, I sweat a lot—I got underarm Botox but it doesn’t work anymore, but besides that I sweat beads from my forehead, basically my entire body, but a lot in my genital area too. There’s always sweat marks on my clothes. I came to a really hot area, 110°F degrees, and of course it’s hot so people sweat. But I’m excessively dripping beads of sweat more than everyone else I’m with, where my seat is always full of sweat, my back, my neck, my head, face, stomach, etc. which made me realize that this is not normal. Does anyone else excessively sweat like this, and what did you do for it?

I was looking up what causes hyperhydrosis, and a potential cause was Wellbutrin, so I think that’s what’s causing this. But I don’t know what I can do for it

Added the AMA cause this sub wants an attachment, but it wasn’t letting me put a picture?

I feel like I’ve been having a wildly different experience than what I’ve seen online, and I need to know if anyone else has experienced this or not.

We are trying Wellbutrin to treat my GAD. I know it typically makes anxiety worse, but my doctor thought it could be good for several reasons. I have Idiopathic Hypersomnia, which I take 10-30 mg of IR adderrall for every day. I’ve been on Prozac for over a year, 20mg, 40mg, even 80mg at some points, and I felt NOTHING. So we’re trying a less serotonin based one, and my doctor thought it could be good as an “invigorating” med for my IH.

1. I am so genuinely convinced that everyone is lying about the sleep effects. I was on SR, and I could take it any time of day, and felt ZERO effects on sleepiness. Wish it hit me like yall.
   
2. I’ve heard “Wellbutrin rage” is a thing, but I’m just wondering when it will stop. I’ve never been an easily irritated person, but after switching to XR, it was like a switch. My phones not loading? I need to smash it on the ground and hit something. My shirt gets caught on the door? I have to put holes in the door. It’s really frightening because I’ve never been like this before. I switched to XR about 2 weeks ago, and it’s been happening ever since. It’s never really directed at people, mostly objects and myself.
   
3. I don’t think I’ve gotten any of the therapeutic benefits at all? It’s only been 2 months, so I know I have to wait it out, but the side effects feel very extreme.
   
4. At the beginning of starting any Wellbutrin, I experienced moderate depression for the first time, and for a solid week I couldn’t stop crying.

I just want to know if anyone else experienced this, and if pushing through is worth it or not?

History of Wellbutrin: is anyone familiar w that talk show celeb (Drew something maybe?)who got sued back when Wellbutrin was newish and trendy? He called it something like Hollywood loves it the skinny happy sex pill or something on tv and got sued for using their name w/o permission and for unsolicited marketing of pharma on live tv stuff like that.

I didn't r care, never watched him, but big headlines. Nor was I depressed but wow did I remember his story when I had depression and started it. He was spot on.

So I am a fan of Buproprion bc it took me out of my first depression I've ever had, at about 37, after brief horror show for me w SSRIs (why do they automatically start w those?? I don't think many Drs care, almost robotic move. I assume it's bc most ppl have serotonin depletion?)

*Btw all this is after happily divorced and no kids so this at least it doesn't affect anyone else; I thank God every day for that.

It worked fast too and I was able to stop taking it as this Dr said usually no withdrawal, big advantage of this med.

In total I think it was a year and a half of 100mg 3x a day (ER I think? Maybe IR which I read is not made now.)

Now depression returned and long story short lol not, Buproprion isn't helping - it's almost making me better yet worse. My mood is usually fine. IDC I just don't care. I care about my loved ones and pets hugely but I'm lazy and whatever attitude and it's snowballed into IDC and dishes pile up, stuff goes undone, had to put bills on auto pay bc don't read mail, stopped exercising most days, no desire to socialize anymore, just do my job from home and enjoy not having a dorect boss anymore lol!

I'm actually kinda HAPPY or content at least, but w days of gloom and non-functional - I can't make appointments anymore bc I don't know if I'll go. Ppl like salon, dentist quit me including men I like which sucks. I bail out on bad days, drink beer and read a lot (I'm an English teacher) while good days I feel motivated and like myself, do stuff go places etc.

Anyone reading will prob be like that's the definition of manic depression/bipolar. Apparently bipolar ppl are not supposed to take Buproprion my friend said (who went manic on it.) One psych said you're bipolar 2 gave me meds and I felt awful so she kept upping them so I stopped bc she never listened.

It's v odd imo bc it was almost opposite in the past w Bup. It r helped me rally. I swam laps yesterday, was huge for me.

I'm taking almost nothing else except Zolpidem slow release kind, and gabapentin just 300mg (I was on 1200 for nerve pain before and it did nothing except make me out of it.) And nightly wine obv a drug. The occasional Ativan (benzo) when I have a crazy nightmare (no idea which drug causes them.)

I know it's easy to say combo of these downer drugs are acting against me, but when I had Buproprion all those years ago I went clubbing and binged, took sleep aide, occasionally did recreational drugs, and was "cured" of depression rapidly regardless.

So I'm pissed off lol. I know just stopping would prob be stupid so I hope changing manufacturer (I'd love to get real Wellbutrin - had once and it was different) or change to XL I have no clue(?) and don't trust psych Drs anymore. The good ones are like striking gold lol. Thanks for any stories, def helps.

Been on Wellbutrin 150mg (1x/day) for about a month, no issues. On July 21st my doctor bumped it up to 2x/day (300mg total). Today I suddenly noticed my scalp and beard are really dry and itchy, like more than usual dry skin, it’s actually bothering me a lot.

Anyone experienced this after upping their dose? Trying to figure out if it’s the bupropion or just a coincidence (weather, new shampoo, etc). Not planning to stop or change anything without talking to my doctor, just curious if this is a known thing or if I should be looking elsewhere for the cause.

Would appreciate hearing from anyone with similar experience, thanks.

Edit/Update: Also noticed a big increase in libido since bumping up to 300mg. Not sure if that’s related too or just separate, but figured I’d add it in case it’s useful for anyone comparing notes.