Posted by JohnL on February 28, 2000, at 5:13:12
In reply to wellbutrin equals rotten eggs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, posted by ryan_s on February 27, 2000, at 22:10:27
> about a day ago i opened my two week old perscription of wellbutrin, and i smelled something funny. i looked around my bedroom to see what was causing this horrible smell. after a couple of minutes of being puzzled, i stuck my nose into the wellbutrin container. YUCK!!!!!!!!!!. To my surprise the wellbutrin was causing the stench. the antidepressant smelled just like rotten eggs!!!
I was reading in the Physicans Desk Reference book that Wellbutrin can have a particular smell. My Wellbutrin never smelled like that though. I know it degrades quickly when the outer coating is broken, like if the pill is cut in half. But I've never noticed a rotten egg smell. I wonder if you could go to a pharmacy and just ask them if you could take a whiff of their Wellbutrin? I'm sure they'll understand if you explain why. Maybe the supply at your pharmacy smells the same. Maybe go to a different pharmacy, explain the situation, and ask them to simply let you take a whiff of their supply?
I don't know. All I can say for sure is my supply of Wellbutrin never had a rotten egg smell, and I've had it in storage for about a year. In your shoes I would want to explore this a little further. I'm puzzled because, like I said, my bottle of Wellbutrin (both regular and SR) has never had any kind of strange smell.
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