Budeprion and medication

I started the medication @ 100mg. It immediately gave me energy and feeling of well being. With in a week I would start to "crash" around mid-day. I would cry over nothing and was terribly sad. After two weeks I went to my doctor. My Dr. said this meant the meds were working and increased my dose to 300mg. I have been on 300mg for only a week and already have terrible itching all over, but mainly on my scalp. I can't stop scratching. I have had mild breakouts (small groups of little bumps) on vairous parts of my body. Two family members have already commented on how thin my hair is (scalp starting to show) and I have blurred vision. I also have 'cotton mouth' along with constant mild headaches.
On top of all this, instead of feeling happy I feel empty/blah/void. I am neither happy nor sad. It is kinda like I am in a hazy daze, a little cloudy headed. (I am scratching my head as I type this). I am going to talk with my Dr., but I don't believe that I will be continuing this medication. I think therapy might be an answer for me, instead of the meds.
I do believe that if I could follow healthy guidelines for living I might be better off. Exercise and eating a healthy diet is known to improve moods. Its the doing of these things thats hard.

I have had a similar experience as many others who have written. I took Wellbutrin (with no side effects) for years, until my insurance company made me change to Budeprion in June 2007. Almost immediately I started feeling dizzy and had terrible nausea. My MD kept saying it was not the Budeprion, but that was the only new medication I was taking. Over the next year, I had a colonoscopy, endoscopy, CAT scans, MRI's, blood tests and breath tests to find out what was wrong. Everything came back negative, and my MD diagnosed me with Irritable bowel syndrome. On my own I decided to cut back the Budprion from 300 mg to 150mg, and I did feel a little better for awhile, but then the nausea came back worse than before, and I definitely noticed that it started about 4 hours after taking Budeprion. I decided to skip it entirely for a day or two, and each time I did, I had no dizziness or nausea. My MD can say whatever she wants, but I know the medication is what made me sick. I don't know if my insurance company will let me go back to Wellbutrin, but I do know I will never take Budeprion again.

I've been on Wellbutrin XL 300mg for quite some time now...coming up on 2 years, I think? I think I took the brand name drug at first, but for most of the time, I've taken the generic BUPROPRION--different generics from different companies, even. But this last refill, the pharmacy had switched to BUDEPRION for the generic. Bupropion and Budeprion are NOT the same!

Today is my second day on Budeprion and I feel like crap. Jittery, shaky, diarrhea, peeing constantly ("polyuria"), heart racing, nausea, nausea while hungry, hot-and-cold, and now worn out from a day of all that! My psychiatrist is on maternity leave but I've got a call in to her office to get it switched back to brand-name. Thankfully I'm in grad school, and under my student health insurance, the copay is the same for brand or generic.

Why Budeprion is considered a generic of Wellbutrin, I don't know. Wellbutrin is bupropion. This Budeprion stuff is a different chemical composition and is absorbed by/released into the body an entirely different way, from what I've been reading. When is the FDA going to get its act together???

Was prescribed this medication to help me quit smoking, and experienced severe headaches and severe depression. I can't believe they prescribe this medicine for depression. After 5 days, I was so depressed, I couldn't function. Thank goodness my husband recognized what was happening to me and convinced me to stop taking it.

Well I have never been on medication for depression. I went to the doctor and he called it mild depression. I also wanted to quit smoking, so he prescribed me Budeprion XL, I never even thought that I had depression, I was just fine. I have been taking this medicine for a couple of weeks now and I can't sleep, I feel jittery like I've drank 2 pots of coffee, my ears ring loudly, I feel strange after I'm done eating, I almost feel like a numbness throughout my body, and my hands and feet sweat like crazy, but I'm cold at the same time and have to have a blanket on me. I have not experienced the joint pain, a little nausea. I think it's time to call the doctor!!!

I feel very sleepy and tired, VERY irritable. After 3 days i got off the medication and went back to the other generic brand of Wellburtion
Im glad i found this website and know that im not the only person that feels this way about Budeprion.

Thanks a lot and i wish everyone well ;)

Started taking it last Thursday, and with a previous bout with depression, and a pending ending marriage, I decided that I would go ahead and cut this off at the pass and get on some medication early. Paxil made erections difficult, so I got off of it back in 1998, and then within 5 days of taking budeprion, I am noticing the same side effects. Including what my doctor called, "the inability to finish."
Getting off of it now, wellbutrin worked in the past.

Wellbutrin saved my life! I was a complete wreck with mood swings and depression and after about 4-6 weeks on Wellbutrin, I was a NORMAL person again! That was 8 years ago. Sometime last year I switched to Budeprion because the Wellbutrin price got out of control. I wanted to write in since I have been on these medications for such a long time and honestly I have to say I have had little to no side effects. Like I said, these drugs saved my life. I expect I will be on them forever unless something changes because I have never been better in my life. I feel for all of you that have had bad side effects, maybe try a different medication? All meds are not right for everyone. My sister takes prosac and she has a lot of problems with it and I keep telling her to switch to Wellbutrin or Generic but then again, who knows? Maybe it won't be right for her.

Anyway, again I did want to post because most posts are negative and I have had absolutely no problems at all - I feel the best I've ever felt, even after taking it long term. :) Good luck to all!

I have been on Wellbutrin XL for 2 years with no ill side effects and it has worked well. 2 1/2 months ago my script changed to the 'generic' BudeprionXL. Since this change, I have been experiencing severe muscle and joint pain, my hands go numb, my skin crawls to the point that I have scratched myself to the point of bleeding. Sleeplessness has just recently started to occur and my teeth have also become very sensitive. General irritability has also set in. I have not yet started to get the headaches most get with the Budeprion and it a good thing as I'm already taking 1600 mg a day of Advil to try and arrest the muscle and joint pain. After reading these other ill effects of this drug I'm now very scared and will be calling my doctor to get her to represcribe Wellbutrin -only- 'no generic'. It is clear to me the FDA did not do the proper research or makes me think TEVA has a friend in the FDA's office.

I have been taking Budeprion for about two months now. At first I don't know anything about the side effects. I thought the feeling of being tired all the time is just normal for someone who is suffering from depression. But day after day I started to have a feeling of weakness on my muscles especially my arms. And I also noticed that I get easily irritated and short tempered.
My doctor switched my medication from Celexa to Bude. This was because I told him that when I was having sex, I just keep on going but never having an ejaculation during the time I was taking Celexa. Now my ejaculation was back to where it was before, after switching to Budeprion. I can tolerate the feeling of having tired muscles but not the feeling of not having an ejaculation during intercourse.

I just started taking this medication for about a week now and all I'm having are problems. Soon after i take the medicine my stomach and back start to hurt and i feel bloated all the time. Now i will say that i feel emotional better but physical not so well. I also have dry mouth. But the worse part of it all is the pain in my stomach.

I started taking Wellbutrin XL for anxiety. My doctor told me that this medication will calm down the anxiety and even just put me in a better mood. (i think i was also slightly depressed) but i was affraid to admit it to myself. I took the Wellbutrin for about year and it worked wonders. I was happier, no anxiety, and i just had energy without having to drink a pot of coffee. These last two months my insurance switched to Budeprion SR and it has been hell. I never put two and two together about the generic...since i work in a pharmacy i assumed it was equivalent. IT IS NOT. My fiancee almost left me! The FDA needs to pull this med.

I recently went to my physician because I have been sooo irritable. I cry about things that I wouldn't normally, too. I've been taking Wellbutrin XL for many years and Lamictal as a mood stabilizer. I've only noticed these changes since my insurance company changed policies and had my Wellbutrin XL filled with the generic Budeprion SR. My doctor also told me they were not the same and she had many patients experience the irritability. After reading up on it, I read that studies have been done that PROVE the generic releases a lot more of the medication in a shorter period of time...not as spread out like it should be like the brand name. My insurance company is currently charging me $60 mo. for generic and $140+ for Wellbutrin XL. The full price is $190+ monthly. Another interesting piece of info I read is the FDA only requires a generic to prove itself as equivalent by testing 20+ out of 30+ people before being allowed to be considered the same as opposed to the hundreds and hundreds of people a brand name drug has to do studies on to prove itself safe and effective to be put on the market. My aunt has experienced the same, only she went into a severe depression. Both of us have recently been experiencing headaches that last days. I am going back to the brand name...$140+ or not. My benefits coordinator told me to appeal it with my insurance company with the help of my doctor. I can't believe the FDA has not done anything about this yet. Personally, I don't think any form of Budeprion should be on the market.

When I piked up my latest wellbutrin prescription I was surprised that I was given the generic subsititute, budeprion. 3 weeks later I was having symptoms of depression. I didn't associate the symptoms with the medication since I was told that the generic is the same medicine. When I called my dr. the first thing he asked was if I was given the generic. He said the generic is chemically different than the brand name wellbutrin--that's why the name budeprion is different from bupropion (Wellbutrin). It IS NOT the same. He gave me samples of Wellbutrin and after a few days I was back to normal. Now I guess I'm going to have to fight my insurance co. to get the Wellbutrin.