Wellbutrin Sr and weight gain - Depression Message Board

wsandy · 04-30-2003, 02:48 PM

Do you lose weight with wellbutrin and if so do you gain it back and how long does it take. I feel better but I'm losing weight to the point I'm afraid I will just disappear. Is there a time limit when you taper off of the side effects?

trishki · 04-30-2003, 03:53 PM

hi wsandy - i am taking wellbutrin sr now too. how long have you been taking wellbutrin and how much are you taking per day? last summer i took 300 mg/day of wellbutrin sr and i lost 7+ lbs. when i went off of it i only gained 2 or 3 lbs back, but i was under lots of stress the whole time so i don't know whether that was the major factor in the weight loss, or the wellbutrin was.

how is the wellbutrin making you lose weight? - does it make it so you don't eat or does it give you anxiety or ??? i thought it gave me lots of anxiety last summer; but i'm giving it another try now and have no real strong side effects yet (it's only been about 7 days so far though).

there are are some articles on the internet about wellbutrin sr and weight loss.

wsandy · 05-02-2003, 01:10 PM

I'm not sure how wellbutrin is making me lose weight other than from anxiety which I dealt with before wellbutrin. I have been taking it for seven days and have noticed positive effects after the first two. I don't have anything bad to say about wellb... yet and hope I don't have to. I just want to gain ten pounds back.