My MD has increased my Wellbutrin and I'm concerned about insomnia.

[lipstickjunkie]

My doctor has increased my Wellbutrin from 150mg once a day to twice a day. I was reading online that Wellbutrin can cause insomnia and you also have to space the doses about 8 hours apart. Ok, so my questions are has anyone had insomnia from Wellbutrin and is there a time a should take the second dose by? The pharmacist I talked with said 6PM but with my bad sleeping patterns, that seems a little late (for me). Thanks

[water]

I would recommend one 300xl (extended release) pill in the morning. When I took the 150 sr (sustained release) in the morning and one 150 sr in the late afternoon it affected my sleep. The 300XL in the morning, after a month or two of adjustment was perfect.

[y58]

Originally both my pdocs had me take the 2nd dose in the evening. But because of insomnia, my current doc has me take the 2nd dose at noon, and I have been having an easier time falling asleep

ETA: Pdoc also had me try the XL but then he suspected that my body wasn't metabolizing that formulation properly

[notfred]

You might try Alplenzin, it is another brand name for Wellbutrin that would be a different time release formulation.

nf

[saveyoursanity]

I take both tablets of my wellbutrin SR in the morning, one when I wake up and one by noon. (Or both at noon if I don't wake up until then, heh.) That way they don't interfere with sleep. There's no real "crash" like I get with Adderall so it seems fairly safe.

[Anna]

I was also told by pdoc that waiting 5 hrs or so was perfectly fine, so provided you wake up early enough, this may not be a problem.

Anna