Has anyone taken Wellbutrin for depression and weight loss?

Been on 300mg Wellbutrin for 20 years. Great for depression and feeling like you have the energy to get through the day, but no for weight loss.

I was on it but it gave me vertigo. so i lost weight because i couldn't get food into my mouth

I have been on it for many, many years. It may have helped with weight loss a bit at first but now I don't notice any difference at all.

I took it years ago for chronic pain. I don't recall weight loss, but I was a smoker then and I went down to a couple a day from a pack a day. I didn't do well aside of that, I was angry all the time so I stopped it.

Wellbutrin has just made it easier to control my appetite. I was daily binger, usually between 6-8pm after work and before bed. Wellbutrin has eliminated that urge to binge and given me more willpower to not over eat.

I took Wellbutrin for a while for depression. It never did anything to my weight, but it was either the one that made me vomit while extremely tired (horrible combination, vomiting while trying to not fall asleep) if I took it too close to another medication or it was the one that made my balance really bad and I walked into things and was too afraid to take the stairs. I don't remember.

I took Wellbutrin and was in a program at the VA called the MOVE program. You track your food intake, concentrating on whole, healthy foods and exercise daily. Within 16 weeks, I had lost 17 pounds. Unfortunately, the Wellbutrin caused me to have nose and eye bleeds, so I stopped taking it. Even though I continued with the program for some time after that, the weight crept back on. I'm afraid the majority of my weight loss was due to the drug and not to my weight loss efforts.

My weight changes according to CICO whether I am on an antidepressant or not. I’ve taken a few and been able to lose on all of them-but some had effects that made it more difficult to moderate my intake.

Wellbutrin was the opposite for me. It didn’t act as an appetite suppressant, but it does wonders for impulsive behaviors and cravings. I had quit smoking about a year before I started Wellbutrin. I was white knuckling it EVERY day to keep from smoking. There was no improvement, no lessening, no easing up. Until I started Wellbutrin and I haven’t had a craving since. It was that much of a night and day difference for me. This carried over to food as well. Although my food cravings have never been quite as strong-Wellbutrin allows me to respond to them in what I presume is a “normal” way. It is also a big help in managing the urge to binge (meaning-it makes it possible to not end up binging - even very successful with BED treatment).

So the drug itself doesn’t affect my rate of loss, or by physiology or cause any change to the CICO equation. But it makes an ENORMOUS difference in my ability to control the CI side.

It did take me 12-16 weeks to fully adjust/acclimate/whatever-it’s-called to where I was able to sleep normally and other side effects died down. The night and day difference with the cravings was so impactful that I probably would have continued with the Wellbutrin even if it made my eyes burn with 17 ft flames.

I have found Wellbutrin to be an effective antidepressant. I have lost, maintained, and gained weight while taking it (the gain was only when it was paired with a second antidepressant). It does have a small appetite suppressant effect for me.

After being diagnosed with GERD, my gastroenterologist found a large amount of benign polyps in my stomach. Turns out this is a known side effect of Wellbutrin, seen mainly in women in their 50s. I have since stopped taking it (and other antidepressants).