looking for answers Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 How quickly do u feel the energy boost side effect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argh Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 4 minutes ago, looking for answers said: How quickly do u feel the energy boost side effect? Dose dependent. 150mg actually made me tired. took maybe 1 or 2 weeks for 300mg to start giving me the boost. about 3 weeks till insomnia. Lol/sigh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
looking for answers Posted July 5, 2018 Author Share Posted July 5, 2018 I’m starting at 150 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argh Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 When will you be increased to 300? That’s the standard therapeutic dose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
looking for answers Posted July 5, 2018 Author Share Posted July 5, 2018 10 days if I tolerate it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
looking for answers Posted July 5, 2018 Author Share Posted July 5, 2018 I was on Wellbutrin in the past but not the xl version. I was unstable then but it made me irritable........... now stable we’re gonna revisit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argh Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Were you on any mood stabilizers, aaps or lithium when you had tried it a while ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
looking for answers Posted July 6, 2018 Author Share Posted July 6, 2018 I was not just that and klonopin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argh Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Ah. Best of luck to you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
looking for answers Posted July 6, 2018 Author Share Posted July 6, 2018 Thank u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
looking for answers Posted July 7, 2018 Author Share Posted July 7, 2018 bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt07 Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 I'll just give you my experience with Wellbutrin and leave it at that. Wellbutrin did nothing for me at 150 mg except give me horrible tinnitus and made me tired. It didn't do anything until 300 mg and then it didn't work all that great for me. It made me VERY anxious and irritable. This was true for IR, SR, and XL (I was on Wellbutrin multiple times.) I wouldn't expect much until you get to 300 mg if I were you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blahblah Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 Agree with @jt07 Wellbutrin did nothing for me but give me Tinnitus and sweating. Even at the highest dose. I tried different brands also. So weird that it gave me tinnitus - never had that with a med. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt07 Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 Oh, yeah, I forgot about the sweating. I would sweat like someone opened up a faucet on my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
looking for answers Posted July 7, 2018 Author Share Posted July 7, 2018 (edited) This all sounds wonderful hopefully it does the trick for me Edited July 7, 2018 by looking for answers T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt07 Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 I don't want to discourage you. Wellbutrin helps a lot of people. Some people swear by it including several of our members. But it is kind of a love it or hate it med. It either works and you are happy with it, or else you get many side effects with little benefit and you hate it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
looking for answers Posted July 7, 2018 Author Share Posted July 7, 2018 2 minutes ago, jt07 said: I don't want to discourage you. Wellbutrin helps a lot of people. Some people swear by it including several of our members. But it is kind of a love it or hate it med. It either works and you are happy with it, or else you get many side effects with little benefit and you hate it. Well we shall see I don’t go up to 300 till the 16th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argh Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 (edited) I would hesitate to call two meds a cocktail but count me in as someone who swears by Wellbutrin. Definitely a core , not an adjunct for my cocktail. Perhaps I didn’t have a full response to it, and yeah the insomnia, though not severe is annoying, but I would not want to swap it for another ad other side effects like constipation and sweating went away after a few months Edited July 7, 2018 by argh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
looking for answers Posted July 7, 2018 Author Share Posted July 7, 2018 Just now, argh said: I would hesitate to call two meds a cocktail but count me in as someone who swears by Wellbutrin. Perhaps I didn’t have a full response to it, and yeah the insomnia, though not severe is annoying, but I would not want to swap it for another ad other side effects like constipation and sweating went away after a few months Great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argh Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 1 hour ago, looking for answers said: Great! Just keep in mind that Wellbutrin does take a while to really kick into effect from a mood perspective. Like way worse than the start up for ssris Keep that in mind if you do expect this to help mood too. Mood wise it really didn’t do too much until about week 6 or so for me energy would come quite a bit sooner. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
looking for answers Posted July 7, 2018 Author Share Posted July 7, 2018 11 minutes ago, argh said: Just keep in mind that Wellbutrin does take a while to really kick into effect from a mood perspective. Like way worse than the start up for ssris Keep that in mind if you do expect this to help mood too. Mood wise it really didn’t do too much until about week 6 or so for me energy would come quite a bit sooner. mood is def a thought here. BUt the main initial is to get the energy boost first.............i can wait on the mood........i need the energy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
looking for answers Posted July 8, 2018 Author Share Posted July 8, 2018 19 hours ago, jt07 said: I'll just give you my experience with Wellbutrin and leave it at that. Wellbutrin did nothing for me at 150 mg except give me horrible tinnitus and made me tired. It didn't do anything until 300 mg and then it didn't work all that great for me. It made me VERY anxious and irritable. This was true for IR, SR, and XL (I was on Wellbutrin multiple times.) I wouldn't expect much until you get to 300 mg if I were you. When u say it didn’t so much is this for mood, energy all of the above? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt07 Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 1 hour ago, looking for answers said: When u say it didn’t so much is this for mood, energy all of the above? It never did do anything for my energy level. It just made me anxious, that's all. And for mood, it didn't do much. Perhaps an incremental difference though that might have been the placebo effect. I don't know. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
looking for answers Posted July 8, 2018 Author Share Posted July 8, 2018 15 minutes ago, jt07 said: It never did do anything for my energy level. It just made me anxious, that's all. And for mood, it didn't do much. Perhaps an incremental difference though that might have been the placebo effect. I don't know. Got yah, thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
looking for answers Posted July 13, 2018 Author Share Posted July 13, 2018 At 150 it’s helping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argh Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 18 minutes ago, looking for answers said: At 150 it’s helping so you have energy now? or mood? both? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
looking for answers Posted July 13, 2018 Author Share Posted July 13, 2018 40 minutes ago, argh said: so you have energy now? or mood? both? 40 minutes ago, argh said: so you have energy now? or mood? both? Some energy which helps mood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
looking for answers Posted July 13, 2018 Author Share Posted July 13, 2018 It still can be better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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