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Posted at 1:10 PM on May 03, 2008 by kristennnn, #30149
I started taking 300 mg wellbutrin sr while weaning off of effexor xr (another nightmare) about three months ago. The past few weeks I have been extremely agitated with everyone in my life. I have also had the worst migraine of my life that will not go away. I'm not sure if this is a side effect of the welbutrin, or just more painful effexor withdrawal? My husband swears that my anger has made me a different person. I hate the way I feel, but don't know if the Wellbutrin is making it better or worse. Anyone have any input?
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Reply 6 months ago on May 05, 2008 by jerseygirliee, #7937

My doctor just recently increased my wellbutin dose from 200 mg /day to 300 mg. I noticed a few weeks after that I was becoming a rage-aholic. I was mad at everyone, everything, anything--which is way different then what I usually am. I was glad when the anger started easing up after those two weeks. I'm not sure if I was just able to breath a little more, and let the stupid stuff go, or if it was really my body adjusting to the new dose. I really hated the way I was during those weeks--I even tossed my dog in a fit (not very hard or far but seriously, tossing the dog?)... My advice, take a determined approach to not letting your anger get the best of you. My jaw started hurting when I did this because I started clenching it a lot, but I was able to be a nice person again, and eventually the jaw clenching stopped as well. It's weird when you feel like your emotions are in control and never stable, but I believe that you can master at least how you act, maybe not how you feel. Good luck with everything, talk to your doctor if it gets worse. Sometimes they'll add another drug to counter-act what's going on...I know my mom takes Wellbutrin as well as Prozac and that seems to be working nicely.

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