Taking Wellbutrin

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Hi, everyone, I just started taking Wellbutrin-SR for my anxiety and depression, and I thought it would be helpful for me to keep track of how I'm feeling on it over a period of time. It's only been two days, so I'll try to recap those as best I can.

Day 1 w/ Wellbutrin:

Took one tablet in the morning (approx 11:00) with a cheese danish and a glass of water, felt somewhat more cheerful and not as depressed as usual...felt drowsy after about half an hour, so took a catnap. In the afternoon, went out to a shopping center for a change of scenery, feeling just as disgruntled at life in general and out-of-sorts as usual. Found an adorable Dumbo plushie in the Disney Store that I bonded with right away, but couldn't buy him right then but didn't feel as bad about it as I normally would (will probably return for him, tho). Came back to dorm, listened to music and drew while my roommate had the TV on, she left to go to her mom's, I settled down in bed to read. Kept seeing little light blue dots dancing across the pages as I read, and then a little later felt rather giddy and childlike, laughing randomly - a lot more peppy than usual. Nose was runny - had to blow it several times. Went to sleep at around 3AM (which is actually normal for me on weekends).

Day 2 w/ Wellbutrin:

Woke up feeling somewhat sleepy/drowsy, tummy hurt a bit, took my morning dose of Wellbutrin, called my folks at home, felt really "up" and energetic afterwards, so took a walk. After walking for about 30 minutes, started feel drowsy, yet energetic, headed to library to come here on WP (laptop's cr@pped out on me again), had a sad thought and almost started crying in public, feel okay now. Going to go eat pretty soon.

I'll keep you guys updated. After three days of just taking one pill with breakfast, I'm supposed to take one in the morning and one in the evening, and see how that goes. Please, feel free to let me know if there's something I should be doing that I'm not, something I need to watch out for, etc...I'm very new to this.

You're just having some minor side effects. You aren't doing anything wrong. The pill should have it's full effect by the third week at the earliest. I have been taking it for a few weeks now and feeling much better. But my desire to stop smoking hasn't disappeared, so now I know that smoking might actually be a mind-control thing.

Thanks so much for the encouragement, aspiemike....I'm very happy to hear that Wellbutrin is working for you.

Recap of yesterday:

After lunch, I felt very peaceful and calm...went to visit my dad and stepmom later on that night, and still felt calm, even though my stepmom sometimes makes me nervous. I felt relaxed and in a pleasant mood for the rest of the night - I wasn't dreading the dawn of a new day like I normally do. I also fell asleep quicker than usual, and slept more soundly.

Additional side effects I'm starting to notice are frequent urination and a scratchy throat...although I'm not sure if they are related to the Wellbutrin, since I'm capable of urinating frequently in any situation (sorry for the TMI) and the scratchy throat could be due to the weather changing or even some kind of allergies to all the moldy autumn leaves on the ground.

Today (so far):

Woke up in a pretty good mood, got thru the morning pretty good, took my laptop to my school's IT center cuz it was screwing up on me all weekend and was running slow, got it fixed in less than an hour after doing a Disk Cleanup. Back at my dorm now, still in a pretty good mood - not stressed or depressed at all.

Hi guys; thought I'd come back and catch up on this - I've been busy with school and I've had a cold for about a week.

I've noticed that lately I've been having some kind of mood swings...one minute I'm incredibly sad and depressed, and feel like crying (though this happened to me before Wellbutrin, where I'd just want to cry randomly due to intrusive thoughts), then the next minute, I'll feel giddy and happy, and then I'll randomly think of something funny and feel like cracking up with laughter over it, and when I get angry or irritated these days, it's hard for me to let go of. Right now it's been a couple hours since I took my evening dose of Wellbutrin and I feel kind of drowsy and "down." It could just be cuz it's the end of the day and I didn't eat lunch today....honestly, I really don't know what's side effects and just me being me.

I ODed on wellbutrin when I was taking it, tried to kill myself for the first time. That by itself should have been a huge hint that antidepressants weren't for me. Antidepressants can, unfortunately, lead to suicide in teens and young adults.

If you don't noticeably feel better after 4 weeks, don't kid yourself, stop taking it. In the meantime, keeping a track of how you are is good idea. Better if you had kept track of how you were before taking it so you had a good baseline comparison, but too late for that now.

Good luck.

I have taken bupropion (Wellbutrin) for a few years now with good results and without side effects.

Like other anti-depressants it doesn't insulate me totally from experiencing life's ups and downs; it just helps keep them within a more manageable range.

Reading your journals, and relating them to my own experience, I noticed two things. First was the breakfast of cheese danish, followed by tiredness about 30 minutes afterwards. For me, that would be indicative of a blood sugar drop after eating sweets on an empty stomach. Similarly, if I were to skip lunch or otherwise not eat on a regular schedule, then all bets are off on any other considerations. Being a little bit hypoglycemic, I pretty well go batcrap crazy if I don't eat right and regularly.