Anyone on Wellbutrin?

CrazyMermaid1

I've been on it for 7 years. Dr prescribed it to counteract the weight gain side effects of other mess. I have gradually lost 50 lb but it was a cico approach. I think it's helped

Labyrinthine93

My last doctor prescribed it for depression, but it was more for weight loss. For me it was a pretty good appetite suppressant. Unfortunately it didn't make me eat less, it just made me extremely nauseous eating particular foods. I just ended up binging on the ones that didn't make me sick.

I left that doctor, and I stopped taking the wellbutrin. I didn't start losing weight until well after this.

ErinV1974

It hasn't affected my appetite, but it has absolutely helped with smoking. I just don't crave it anymore. Miracle drug!!

esaucier17

I have been on Wellbutrin fro 3 year. At first to quit smoking and anxiety like you! It worked for both. I have been smoke free for 3 years August 25th and it does help my anxiety also. It did not cause me to gain weight. In fact I lost 25-30 pound about a year and a half ago while taking it. I don't think it caused the weight loss but it didn't hinder it either. I have gained it back due to poor eating habits and I stopped exercising

rhtexasgal

I took wellbutrin for post-partum depression and while it worked for that, it did not help me lose the weight I gained from pregnancy (I wasn't using it for that). Plus, I must have been one of the "lucky" ones (insert snark here) because after a while, I had some bad side effects such as dizziness and vertigo, heart palpitations and sudden blood pressure drops. I had the dizziness happen when I was driving with my kids in the car. I barely made it into a parking lot before I had an accident. I ended up quitting cold turkey because I just could not do it anymore and did not have any withdrawal symptoms either. It took a while before the side effects went away.

cerise_noir

Wellbutrin hasn't helped me with weight loss, however when I started taking it, I felt more energised than usual... I can see why weight loss would be a mentioned 'side-effect' due to the jitters/energizing effects.

jenlo1971

I used to take it. I took to assist with stress or depression . I was also actively watching what i ate and exercising to try and had about 15 lbs to lose. weight loss had stalled for me. I started the Wellbutrin and the first week and lost 4.5 lbs, the next week 2.5. A lot to lose when you've only got 15 to go. That weight stayed off for years. It didn't kill my appetite I just found that a was less prone to snack at night which is when I typically take in the most calories.

wargirl51

I read thru all your post ands didn't see that anyone mentioned this to u about Wellbutrin, it DOES affect ur
Memory. U can check it out on the web if u like. I have been on it for years and my memory is shot. The studies say if I go off of it, it won't come back, so I stay on it. Plus I do well on it.
But if I had to do it over again I wouldn't take it. However there are a lot of antidepressants that affect memory u just have to do ur homework cause Doctors WON'T they go on what the drug sales rep tells them.

Good Luck

firephoenix8

I was on Wellbutrin and Celexa for about six months about 8 years ask for a very severe depressive episode (in a much longer chronic depression). I had anxious dreams where I often woke myself up by talking out loud, and it didn't help me much. I did lose a little weight during that time, but I've always attributed it to eating more - due to the depression I was going days at a time without eating, until I would get extremely cold and start shaking (I didn't really ever feel hungry. I eat when I'm happy, not when I'm upset). At the same time I started the meds I promised my doctor I would eat three times a day even if it was something tiny. I managed about twice a day, and it was often just what I would consider a snack, and not really very healthy. But anyway I lost about ten pounds in that six months. Eventually I was switched to Cymbalta which worked a lot better, except that I slept a lot (12 hours a night, 18 hours on weekends).

A couple months ago I switched back to Wellbutrin (just the Wellbutrin) because I had gotten to a place where I was sleeping excessively (as much as 36 hours at a stretch on weekends) and generally having no energy, no interest in anything, and trending into dangerous depressive territory (thoughts of self harm, for example).

Within two weeks I felt like the sun had come out, I had lots more energy, etc etc. One of the things I had the mental headspace for was getting on MFP and planning my week's meals and cooking. Food tastes good so that I care if I'm eating good stuff I cooked at home instead of processed crap from McDonald's. So again, I've lost ten pounds on Wellbutrin, but only incidentally to the med, I would say. It's working as antidepressant, which allows me to make the wise decisions I always wanted to make but couldn't.

As an aside, I don't find it to be an appetite suppressant, although appetite isn't really my problem (fast food because I don't have the energy to cook...). I would say I care more about food on it and have for probably the first time ever been enjoying the whole involved process of choosing, planning, shopping, cooking, eating, and cleaning up. I always saw that as an insurmountable chore before and have been known to say that I would sign up for a pill you take once a day and not have to eat in a heartbeat of such a thing came out.

I also find it weird that Wellbutrin is used for anti anxiety. The person who said it was an upper definitely described my experiences. Anxious dreams, insomnia, jitters, can't sit still, etc. It's gotten better after the first few weeks but I was cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof there for a while, ready to jump out of my skin constantly. Coming from the extreme other end of the spectrum where I was sitting around like a lump when I wasn't sleeping, that's actually ok with me, but I have trouble understanding how it could help with anxiety unless it affects other people differently.