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What is Wellbutrin?

Wellbutrin® is a brand name for the drug bupropion, a norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake inhibitor (NDRI) antidepressant is used to treat major depressive disorder and seasonal affective disorder.

Reasons taken & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Reasons taken # of patients Major Moderate Slight None Can’t tell # of patients evaluated by
pain,depression,fatigue 5 0
Depression 4 0

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Dosages

  3 mg daily 75 mg daily 100 mg daily 150 mg daily 225 mg daily 300 mg daily 400 mg daily 450 mg daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 2 Number of Patients: 2 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 4 Number of Patients: 4 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Wellbutrin (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Side effects too severe
1 100% Side effects too severe: 100%

See all 1 patient who’ve stopped taking Wellbutrin

Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Taking Wellbutrin

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
1
0
1
3
0
6

Stopped Taking Wellbutrin

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
1
0
0
0
0

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
0 0%
Usually
0 0%
Sometimes
0 0%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
0 0%
A little
0 0%
Not at all
0 0%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

$200+
0 0%
$100-199
0 0%
$50-99
0 0%
$25-49
0 0%
< $25
0 0%

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Report created on November 22, 2009.