r/bupropion

I’m severely anemic (iron deficiency anemia) with a ferritin of 5😅 I had 6 infusions two years ago and felt zero difference ….I have had 2 infusions so far over the last week and I feel more energy I think????

Ive been taking Wellbutrin for like 8 months now and I’ve evened out for the most part.

Lately I feel like the iron infusions are ramping up the Wellbutrin!? I feel more dopamine glimmers??? I also feel like I’m seeing colors more vividly now too??? Can anyone relate !?🤣

I started Bupropion almost a year ago and It works really great for my depression because it has me more easily start tasks I want to do, and makes me actually able to finish that task. But one thing I def noticed was how irritated and rude i’ve gotten? When I’m really focused and zeroed in on something I’m doing and someone tries to simply talk to me I get all snippy and impatient and I could feel the irritation in my chest.

It’s been starting to eat at me because I really hate making people feel like they can’t talk to me without getting told off, and I feel really really bad about it afterwards. I would definitely like some ways to help regulate it, because I’m at a loss besides trying to fake not being irritated.

Hey all,

Since I'm not depressed myself, and this is so difficult for someone like me to understand and for someone who is depressed to explain, I turn to you hoping y'all can share some guidance or perspectives on what's happening to my girlfriend, and how I can support her.

She's been battling depression for years, since long before we met. She's tried so many different types of medication, even TMS, and she says nothing really worked. She stopped taking her meds for a while, and has been back on welbutrin for a couple of weeks.

Personally, I felt like I saw a change - things happening at work didn't seem to hit her as hard anymore, and she seemed in better spirits overall. Though I know the image one projects isn't necessarily reflective of how one feels inside, it seemed like progress to me.

Yesterday she increased her dose from a single XL 150 to two per day. She felt off all day, and experienced things that she said never having experienced in her past, with all the medication she took. She described it as "my core feels detached and uncaring about things, but it's surrounded by a layer of dark thoughts and anxiety" and also said her brain hurts. It's also making her brain feel foggy and forget things, which it did in the past and isn't necessarily new, but apparently neither of those things are a know side effect of welbutrin?

I'm aware the body can react pretty strongly to changes in dosage and that it can take days or weeks for the brain to adapt to the chemicals, but does this sound like what's going on here? She wants to stop the medication because she hates her job and has a pretty high-stakes job interview for a new position coming up, and doesn't want to have brain fog for that, which I completely understand, but I'm worried stopping could also have an adverse effect.

I feel helpless in how I can support her since this is something I'll never understand. She's clearly struggling inside and I just feel helpless. Aside from being there for her physically and emotionally, what's the best way to support her? I feel like I ask too many questions to try and understand how she's feeling, but at the same time, I'm so worried about her.

Any thoughts on what I could do?

Thanks

Hello all,

I am on 20mg of Lexapro for MDD and GAD. The Lexapro works great for me and I basically had no side effects except for being very lethargic and lacking motivation. For this reason I went on Wellbutrin 150mg 3 weeks ago.

The first few days I felt absolutely terrible with weird brain fog, derealization, muscle aches, and an extremely dry throat/sinuses. A couple of days in I started to notice the motivation benefits, it became easier to do chores around the house, and start tedious tasks at work. I also felt really chatty and was generally in a good mood. I'm nicer and more polite to those around me.

This only lasted a couple of days before the anxiety started. I still have the motivation benefits (less than before though) but I also have this very distracting physical anxiety sensation that's hard to ignore. I have this almost constant tugging feeling behind my heart. Like I'm super nervous. I cant seem to make this feeling go away unless I am really busy or focused on a task. Even then, I can still feel it if I think about it.

I am beginning to reconsider this medication because the Lexapro alone basically erased my anxiety completely. I think it might be worth losing the motivation and other Wellbutrin benefits by going back to Lex alone if it means I wont have this anxiety any longer.

I have a follow up appointment with my doc in a week and a half. Will of course discuss these concerns with them, but I also wanted to see if there were others out there who experienced the same as me.

Will this feeling fade over time? will changing the dose help?

Have been prolonging getting on adhd medication for a while, can’t get on stimulants because of addiction issues so I figured I would try this medication out. It’s been 3 or 4 days since I started taking this but the difference in focus and being able to complete tasks easily is night and day. The only side effect I’ve experienced is being more agitated than normal and some weird things while trying to go to sleep but other than that this medication seems very promising in the context of treating adhd.

I’m on day 3 of Wellbutrin rn. 150mg xl. Nothing’s any different so far, if anything I genuinely feel like i have less energy. I’m just so tired and sleepy all the time.

My next appointment with my doc is on the 23rd, so in 2 weeks exactly. Not too far off at all, but still, how did you get through the wait?

Hello everybody for years and years I’ve been taking par pharma generic. Now it’s been discontinued from my pharmacy. I tried Slate and got really sick and got a bad headache. Has anyone else tried par and liked it and now is on a different generic I would like to know because if power works for you then that means this new generic that you’re on would also work for me. Thank you so much

I've been on auvelity 45mg/105mg for about a month now taking 1 pill a day. It has worked pretty good for my anxiety and general mood but unfortunately I hate the doped up feeling I get after taking it, usually lasts about 5hrs. Is this something that goes away eventually as my body gets used to it or does it always make u feel that way?

On 20mg lexapro, started to help a lot with anxiety/OCD, but made me so fatigued. Almost 2 weeks into Wellbutrin and it's helping, but it's also coming with anxiety & returning intrusive thoughts/emotions.

Anyone with a similar prognosis experience similar side effects? What was your timeline for Wellbutrin smoothing out? Really want this med to work, but just don't want to start getting drawn back into the heavy ocd stuff :/

I am diagnosed with BPD, treatment resistant depression, OCD, anxiety and so on, and was on Wellbutrin a little over a year ago. It worked okay mood wise but my resting heart rate was like 160 and I got worsened anxiety symptoms.

I recently got out on Effexor, and over the past few weeks my suicidality has been at an all time high, I’m genuinely so depressed. I reached out to an emergency psych, who wanted to prescribe me this again in hopes that it would help. Today I was either driving myself to ER or the pharmacy to pick it up, but I’m second guessing whether or not it’s worth taking in conjunction to Effexor.

I really don’t want to wait for hours on end at a hospital or get admitted inpatient again, but I’m at such a loss. I’ve been on almost every med under the sun and put so much work into recovery. This relapse is far beyond any blips I’ve had :( has anyone had any experience on the two, or any advice?

I'm going through the onboarding process for an internship this summer, and part of it is a saliva drug test. The test, if I'm understanding correctly, will be administered by the HR rep who's doing the onboarding, if I test positive for anything, they'll do a retest on a different day, but they do not send results anywhere (so I'm assuming it's a rapid test or something, higher false positive rate, and they don't do confirmatory GC/MS). I saw that Bupropion can cause false positives, but most of the data is for urine drug tests.

I'm probably worried for no reason, as I only started Wellbutrin XL 150 mg last week, & will have been on it for maybe a month tops when I do the testing, but saliva tests screen for substances in the past 24-48 hrs, so I don't know. Does anyone have any tips, advice, or insights? Thanks!

Why it lasted so short? Should I increase the dose

So I started 150 mg Bupropion around a month ago and the beginning was amazing. I was actually productive and did all the things I enjoyed but usually just procrastinate.

I also had a break from Uni during these first few weeks. Now I have to write a thesis and I really don't want to (so it's not a thing I am actually excited to do) and since the deadline is coming closer I started stressing more about it.

And since I started stressing more about it, my mental health got really bad.

The thing is, my depression is always going really bad when I am forced to do something or to go somewhere (like work or studying) and I don't really remember what emotions feel like, if I am not experiencing them right in the moment. So I don't know if it might be a side effect or just my normal shitty brain.

I know wellbutrin is not an ssri and I should be able to quit easily. Am I crazy?

I have contacted my psych so waiting for a response. I am currently on 250 Zoloft and 10mg ritlian a day. I recently got put on 150 wellbutrin and stopped taking 20mg busapr.

Today would be day 4 for me on wellbutrin but I'm not sure if I should continue taking it (below are my side effects), I had also taken for two days in the past and hated it:

Positives:

None

Negatives:

Super irritable

Headache

Joint pains

Feel like I'm fighting a fever (chills)

Feel like I'm just hungover 24/7

Nausea

Head pressure

Like hacky sack feeling in head, that even happens when I'm laying in bed

I am barley eating, have no interest and feel sick when I do

I usually watch shows or play games for an hour at night before bed but have completely lost interest in that

Just want to basically sleep all the pain away

I see in other posts that everyone says it gets better, but this is the only med I've taken that literally gives me every side effect horribly