177 patient evaluations for Bupropion

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Jul 1, 2009 (Started Apr 10, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for depressed mood)
  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for pain)
  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for cold sensation in feet)
  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for buzzing vibration sensation)
  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for paresthesia)
  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for migraine headaches)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 300 mg/24 hours Daily
Cost: < $25 monthly
  • 0 helpful marks

Nov 10, 2009 (Started Aug 10, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    None (for muscle twitching (fasciculations))
  • Side effects
    Moderate (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Somewhat hard to take
Dosage: 150 mg Daily
Cost: $25-49 monthly
  • 0 helpful marks

Dec 8, 2009 (Started Aug 15, 2000)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for fibromyalgia)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (insomnia, dizziness, dry mouth, shakiness, jerky movements)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 450 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: I can't manage without it
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: shakiness, jerky movements, insomnia, dizziness, dry mouth, insomnia, dizziness, dry mouth

Dec 11, 2008 (Started Aug 15, 2000)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for fibromyalgia)
  • Side effects
    Moderate (for Overall) (dizziness, dry mouth, shakiness, jerky movements)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 450 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: It has worked with the Prozac and Trazadone to stop the terrible muscle spasms. My muscles would draw up into balls and not release. If these had not been stopped I couldn't have lived with it.
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: shakiness, jerky movements, insomnia, dizziness, dry mouth, insomnia, dizziness, dry mouth
  • 0 helpful marks

Aug 30, 2009 (Started Aug 25, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Can't tell (for major depressive disorder)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Usually
  • Burden
    A little hard to take
Dosage: 100 mg Daily
Cost: < $25 monthly

Aug 5, 2009 (Started Aug 25, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for major depressive disorder)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Usually
  • Burden
    A little hard to take
Cost: < $25 monthly
  • 0 helpful marks

Dec 26, 2008 (Started Dec 26, 2008)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for Depression/Anxiety)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 300 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: The impact on my daily life is immeasurable. I am going through some very stressful things right now as are a lot of people. If I didn't have my meds I would probably be suicidal due to those stresses.
Cost: $25-49 monthly
  • 0 helpful marks

Nov 10, 2009 (Started Jun 12, 2008)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for depressed mood)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 200 mg Daily
Cost: < $25 monthly

Dec 3, 2008 (Started Jun 12, 2008)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for depressed mood)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 200 mg Daily
Cost: < $25 monthly
  • 0 helpful marks

Nov 4, 2009 (Started Nov 07, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for bipolar disorder)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (dry mouth)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Advice & Tips: This medicine is VERY EXPENSIVE OVER $400 a MONTH but I have mail-in which makes it $100 for 3 Months.
Cost: $100-199 monthly
Side effects: dry mouth
  • 0 helpful marks

Oct 1, 2009 (Started Sep 28, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Can't tell (for depressed mood)
  • Side effects
    Severe (for Overall) (intrusive thoughts images or impulses, psychosis disorder, insomnia, dry mouth, suicidal, racing thoughts, obsessive thinking, self harm thoughts or urges, thoughts of death, thoughts of overdosing)
  • Adherence
    Never taken as prescribed
  • Burden
    Very hard to take
Dosage: 100 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: this was a bad choice for me very bad side effects from dry mouth to not being able to enter my mind at all to seeing and heaing things that are not there to the only thing in my head was a video of how to do it playing over and over to a fake foursed feeling happiness
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: suicidal, thoughts of death, obsessive thinking, dry mouth, racing thoughts, thoughts of overdosing, self harm thoughts or urges, intrusive thoughts images or impulses, insomnia, insomnia
  • 0 helpful marks

Nov 8, 2009 (Started Mar 06, 2007)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for depressed mood)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (decreased appetite, nervousness)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 300 mg/24 hours Daily
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: nervousness, decreased appetite

Feb 24, 2009 (Started Mar 06, 2007)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for depressed mood)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 300 mg/24 hours Daily
Advice & Tips: will make you anxious and harder to get to sleep first couple of weeks,but this wears off...advise to take it in the a.m., the best thing as far as side affects about this med is that it is the only antidepressant found to not decrease libido or sexual function
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: nervousness, decreased appetite
  • 0 helpful marks

Oct 26, 2009 (Started Aug 20, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for Treat my mood condition(s))
  • Side effects
    Moderate (for Overall) (spinning dizziness (vertigo))
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    A little hard to take
Dosage: 2 x 150 mg/24 hours Daily
Advice & Tips: Very large drop in appetite when switched from XR to SR. Also difficulty sleeping about 5 nights after switch. Does seem to increase energy somewhat, but does not eliminate fatigue. Currently taking 300 mg to suppress desire to smoke. Has worked very well for that. "Brain Spins." See forum post, "Convulsions or What?"
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: spinning dizziness (vertigo)

Aug 21, 2009 (Started Aug 20, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for Treat my mood condition(s))
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 2 x 150 mg/24 hours Daily
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: spinning dizziness (vertigo)

Jul 16, 2009 (Started Aug 20, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for Treat my mood condition(s))
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Usually
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Advice & Tips: Think this has caused decline in appetite. I believe it is an SNRI, which works on the dopamine system. I think my dopamine system is more off kilter than my serotonin system. This drug has worked for me in the past as well and I have minimal side effects.
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: spinning dizziness (vertigo)

Apr 28, 2009 (Started Aug 20, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for Treat my mood condition(s))
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: spinning dizziness (vertigo)
  • 1 helpful mark
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