Posted by i4gotmy_sn on July 10, 2007, at 4:12:54
In reply to Re: Budeprion (Generic) vs. Wellbutrin, posted by sdworaczyk on July 5, 2007, at 8:46:29
Last night was the last time I took budeprion XL 300mg and it will be the last time ever. What a joke! Unfortunately I'm financially disadvantaged at the age of 20, so I can't purchased the name brand. I had been taking Wellbutrin XL 300mg for a while now and I was fine while on it. I can even so far as to say that I was decent on bupropion 300mg. It had little to no difference. I felt like I was just not getting a full effect of 300mg, that's all. It was okay and not horrible to deal with.
Considering I get my meds free or really cheap, I felt I had nothing to complain about. I told my psychiatrist, who's a total jerk for the record what had been going on when I took this weird, big, yellow pills that looked nothing like the name brand or the other generic I had. He made me feel like some sort of alien, as if what was coming out of my mouth was mindless babble. I knew what I had been feeling, but somehow to him, I was a lier. Like many others I thought my pharmacy made a mistake.
Tomorrow or within the next few days I have another refill to pick up. I flushed the remainder of what I had down the toilet. If I receive the same thing (yellow budeprion), I'm going to just hand it back to them and say "you guys obviously need the money, more than I need this". Why take something that's makes me worse off than I normally am?!
I really didn't want to experience side-effects of coming off of it, that's why I didn't stop taking the budeprion. It made me extreme edgy, easily prone to bouts of anger, and unhappy. Feeling like there was no reason to live. I felt that I was dependent on these pills and it played a toll on my self-esteem.
I almost lost some "friends" from the handful of episodes that I had. I had a complete mental breakdown and crying wasn't enough anymore. I had to hit pillows or squeeze the closest thing to me as hard as I could. I don't know if what I'm saying is making sense to any of you reading this, but hopefully. I apologize for the long entry. Long story, short: Wellbutrin XL 300mg = Excellent! Bupropion XL 300mg = Pretty good. Buderprion XL 300mg = Unbelievably unnecessary and not worth it!
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