How do you know if wellbutrin is too activating?

[confused]

I started 150mg wellbutrin 2 weeks ago. I've been having trouble staying asleep at night. Last night I took a left over ambien so I could stay asleep. I slept straight about 6 hours, but I was up wide awake at 4 am so I decided to stay up and start the day, but everyone else in the house was asleep.

I've been dwelling on past delusions and having to work to reality check. I told my husband about the reality checking, that a radio personality was talking about a celebrity and I thought he was really talkking about me. I was able to realize that wasn't true. He thinks it's normal that things that remind me of the delusions will trigger a memory and it's okay as long as I can figure out what is real.

I've been feeling down and fatigued for so long this is a welcome change. Is this just adjusting to a new med? I see my tdoc on Friday and I'll let her know how I'm doing. My pdoc is in the same office.

[witchywoman]

For me, we figured out it was too activating when I started having panic/anxiety attacks often. I don't remember if my sleep was interrupted or not.

[llama44]

When I was in the midst of a severe depressive episode I was given wellbutrin and it did help. Well eventually it helped too much. So it made me manic and I was taken off of it.

[tryp]

Wellbutrin was a nasty ride for me. It was okay for the first two weeks or so, and then all of a sudden I got monster paranoid. like, thinking people on the street can hear your thoughts paranoid.

I begged my pdoc to keep me on it because I was desperate not to be depressed, but she pulled me off anyway and after I'd been off it for two days I knew she made the right call. Didn't realize I was acting like a nutbar until the stuff washed out of my system.

It's probably worth telling your tdoc about. It could really be either.