[ChaoticSymphony]

Is anyone taking it and what was/is your experience on it?

The first time I tried it it amped me up and I felt wired on it. That was 5 years ago. After a pretty severe depression took hold last month I was put on wellbutrin and I didn't get the amped up feeling like I did the first time but I can definitely notice a complete turn around in mood. Do people really bounce back this fast with a med? Night and day difference that I'm not complaining about but baffled at the lack of time needed to regulate mood.

[RisuNeko]

I'm on Wellbutrin right now. I just started it again (I've been on it twice before) about a month ago. I think it's helping my depression somewhat. It seems to be helping my focus a bit too as my psychiatrist is unsure whether or not I have ADHD. I think it gives me some energy although my energy was fine beforehand even when I wasn't sleeping.

[butterflypower]

I started it Tuesday. I'm already seeing positive effects from it. I have more energy before I had no energy. I eat less. I lost 5lbs already. I needed to lose weight since Zyprexa made me gain so much. I used to weigh 117lbs now I weigh 159. So hopefully I lose all the weight I gained in the first place.

[BipolaRNurse]

I wish you all the best with Wellbutrin. For those it works for, it's a wonderful drug. But for those it doesn't, the effects can be disastrous. It made me off-the-spool manic and even psychotic, and that was before I was diagnosed bipolar. I flew into blind rages and threw things, slammed doors, screamed and cursed at the top of my lungs. I even threatened to kill somebody.....at work of all places! No bueno. The effects were so bad that it's now on my allergies list in my medical record.

[wildflowerchild25]

I've been on it since August. I went all the way up to 450mg in the summer/fall and it had no effect on my crippling depression. Then I had ECT to bring me out of the depression. I was stable for awhile but started having short bouts of depression when I went back to work. So it was upped to 300mg last Friday. By Monday iwas feeling baseline again, but that also follows my normal cycle pattern, so I've got to give it another couple of weeks to find out if it keeps the depression at bay or at least keeps it mild.

[ingill]

Wellbutrin basically got me diagnosed! Most of last year I was severely depressed and anxious, so my GP put me on it after trying SSRI's/SNRI's that didn't work (this was before I was diagnosed with bipolar). At 150mg it did nothing. At 300mg it helped quite a bit - I was able to at least do things like go grocery shopping and do some actual work instead of just sitting in front of my computer staring at it. Sometime in there I started seeing a psychiatrist, and since I was still having anxiety issues, she upped it to 450mg. I'm not sure if I was due for a hypomanic swing or if the meds caused it, but it took maybe a week to kick in, and I felt pretty damn good. I was able to keep a lid on my enthusiasm during my 1-month follow-up with her, so we decided to keep it there. Then about two weeks after that (so, about 6 weeks after I went up to 450mg) things went a little haywire. Basically everything you see on a symptoms checklist for a manic episode, that was me, except I managed to stay out of the hospital/jail. I did come extremely close to checking myself in though, because it got to the point that I wasn't physically able to stay still, thinking was out of the question (I looked back the other day at something I wrote at the time and it makes almost no sense) and I was hallucinating. Sooooo I got an emergency appointment, which I don't remember all that clearly though I remember her seeming pretty alarmed that I had gotten a pixie cut since my last appointment. She pulled me back down to 300mg of wellbutrin and started me on lamictal. Since then I've still felt pretty 'up' most days but not out of control.

So yeah, for me once I got to 300mg it did kick in pretty quickly, and going past that had an almost immediate effect. It also demolished my appetite for a couple weeks with every increase, so that was a welcome side effect.

[ChaoticSymphony]

The doc upped it 50mg and I don't notice anything different. It's given me some genuinely good days but mostly just the ability to at least fake it again. But no where near what I was feeling before the drug. I think I'm going to stick with it. It's the first med I've ever taken and saw results so fast.

[boydisappearing]

I bounced back really fast with Wellbutrin, but it exacerbated the psychotic features of my illness and I had to go back off of it.

I loved how it feels, but it drove me manic before I was ever diagnosed. It was a crazy thing, the more I took the more my depression got worst, so they kept upping my dose to 300mg. I always felt real good after a bout of depression, so I figured my body was readjusting, so I never reported the hypomanic part. I was cycling so hard I was utterly a basket case.

I hope your taking it with a stabilizer hun and so happy that it's working for you!

[Supersonic]

I just started on a low dose, once every morning, two weeks ago. I noticed a difference right away, but it only lasts a couple hours for me.

[lunaticfringe]

When I was on it a couple years ago it made me hypomanic right away. I remember feeling fantastic and I was exercising like crazy...like too much. I lost quite a bit of weight and was just really wired and jazzed all the time. I eventually stopped taking it because I couldn't eat while I was on it and I think I realized I was acting loopy.

[funkyorcrazy]

Sent me into a hypomanic episode after an increase in dosage! Made me feel like superwoman, but I was on the verge of breaking with reality.