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Wellbutrin - thoughts?

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What has been your experience with wellbutrin? Did you have anxiety and jitters when you first started? If so what did you do
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I love my Wellbutrin, but I had to make sure I was put on the extended release or I had the jitters. No anxiety with it.
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i took wellbutrin when i was first diagnosed 12 years ago when they first thought it was just depression. it did nothing for me. my sister is severly depressed, and her doc put her on wellbutrin and for the first couple weeks it made her extremely anxious and jittery to the point where she had to get off it. shes now on cymbalta.
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I have been on and off of it for years. I love it. takes the edge off for me. I take the extended release. i have taken the other one too. if that one gives you jitters i would ask your doc to switch you the the extended.
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I've tried it before and at night i would get ashamed and panicked. I wonder if it will go away with time or if klonipan will help it
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Wellbutrin was a waste of time for me. It had no affect on me, but some people have had great success with it.
dancingd
dancingd
Weebutrin ,I took it for years,just recently was taken off,because my Pdoc thinks I might be one of those BP,who get more aggitated on antidepressants.I was happy with it...we are considering me going back on.Wellbutrin is pretty well tolerated,some jitters maybe at first..but settles down quickly.Also Wellbutrin ,has shown to increase the libido of some women....lucky side effect?
dancingd
dancingd
Sorry gys,I've been up since really early for me...that should say Wellbutrin!
Man my typos are bizzare!
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I am gonna start it this weekend and in the past I stopped because I got anxiety and scared at night. But wonder if it goes away
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they added wellbutrin to my regimen because i was so so depressed...

now i'm on 2 antidepressants and i think it is ridiculous but i can't get them to take me off either one.

more than 100 mg of wellbutrin gives me the jitters and i can't handle it.
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how long have you been on wellbutrin snow?
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since ... april.
deleted_user
deleted_user
but how long did the jitter last before you changed dosage
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no, they tried to up me to 150 and the jitter started right away.

so i went down to 100.

i was really depressed april & may. i literally couldn't read and i had work to do that involved reading. i could barely get out of bed.

the wellbutrin SR changed that for me almost instantly. got me up out of bed and in the shower, anyway. haha
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I have trouble in the shower and I can't read books anymore. I go to work but its nothing hard. Thanks
bbipolar
bbipolar
I have same question as seelingPeace, how longs will the anxiety and shakes last? Does it ever go away? I was on 300 2x day, now on 300 1 daily. Helps with serios depression, but very shakey.
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