Article: 310 of soc.support.depression.treatment From: tim42ohio@yahoo.com (Timothy Timbrook) Newsgroups: soc.support.depression.treatment Subject: Re: Wellbutrin and drowsiness Date: 16 Jul 2003 17:26:41 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <23ee3b27.0307160803.1c8eb9d7@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.218.218.43 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1058401601 26690 127.0.0.1 (17 Jul 2003 00:26:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Jul 2003 00:26:41 GMT Path: news.meer.net!sea-read.news.verio.net!dfw-artgen!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Xref: archive.mv.meer.net soc.support.depression.treatment:310 timmem1@yahoo.com (TM) wrote in message news:<23ee3b27.0307160803.1c8eb9d7@posting.google.com>... > > My doctor prescribed wellbutrin for me recently. I just started taking > it and it makes me feel drowsy. Also, my ability to think clearly has > diminished and I have a difficult time doing anything other than > staring at the walls. > > I am going to stop taking it. Does anyone have any thought/experiences > to share about Wellbutrin??? Are my reactions normal??? I think "sedation" is a possible side-effect, but it sounds weird to me. When I was on it, the side-effects are best described (for me atleast) as like drinking way too much coffee. I was extremely restless, couldn't sleep, felt jittery, ringing in my ears. Ironically, I thought it actually helped my depression, but not being able to sleep soundly was a real problem. I have known a few people that have been on it before and their experience was more like mine than yours. Which isn't alot to worry about, everyone reacts differently to meds... If everyone reacted the same to all meds, there wouldn't be so many antidepressants around. lol.