[doggiedo]

Does anyone get chronic headaches from your medicine? I recently increased my dosage and it's only been 2 weeks (give or take). I am finding I get headaches out of nowhere and it's really becoming a pain and really inconvienent when I wake up with them or get one at work.

I might even call the doc to try and go back down. It's rediculuous!
I'm also feeling really sleepy since I started the medicine. I got 10 hrs of sleep the other night and took a 2 hour nap that day! Today I got another 11 hours of sleep and then took a 1 hour nap! I don't think I want to live like this...meaning I'd rather go back down to my old dose than sleep through the next year of my life!

[AniManiac]

I get headaches for 2 - 4 weeks when I go up on my dosage for Wellbutrin. It was really bad when I went from 300mg to 450mg, but really not so bad at all going from 150mg to 300mg. I also get a day or two of headaches from Lamictal dosage increases. I could tell the headaches were from the meds because they would start 60-90 minutes after taking meds.

So I think it's not that unusual, but unless it goes away after a month, it's a side effect that you shouldn't have to put up with.

[Perna]

Yes, I'd wait a couple weeks to see if it gets better/bearable and/or get your medical doctor to do blood tests, make sure nothing else is going on with the tiredness (dehydration, thyroid, med interaction (with another med or even a particular food, anemia, etc.).

[Umbral_Seraph]

I got some mild headaches when I was on Wellbutrin. I haven't gotten headaches from anything else, but I rarely get side effects from meds, and I have gotten a couple of other effects in the past. Headaches are not an uncommon side effect, and if it persists, especially if it's getting past a month, then you should consider a different medication.

What are you taking that's making you so sleepy? I used to take benzos...and I could sleep 16 hours a day every day!

[doggiedo]

Could be. Idk. I'm on Fluoxetine, 60mgs. Maybe (I hate to admit it), I'm sleeping more b/c I'm depressed. I went back to the 40 mgs until my doc's appt on Monday. But it has only been 2 weeks since I uped the dosage.

[Umbral_Seraph]

Ok, so no; it's an SSRI.

It can take 6 weeks or longer for many meds to start working. If you have increased depression that is being caused as a side effect of the meds you need to change meds.