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Wellbutrin - weight loss or appetite gain?

Posted by Tony P on September 2, 2001, at 21:38:11

In reply to Wellbutrin - weight loss or appetite gain?, posted by Tony P on September 2, 2001, at 2:47:27

[Reposted - original vanished into archive limbo right after I posted it - got to stop posting so late at night!]

I have seen quite a few posts here associating Wellbutrin with weight loss. Having lost 35 lbs. over the past year (while taking Serzone), primarily I think due to stress and probably some appetite suppression from OTC meds, and now having just started WB, I am not eager to lose a whole lot more weight! At 160-165 lbs & 5'9 1/2, I think I'm not far off where I should be for a 55-year old M. Maybe 5 lbs less would be OK or even 10 if I then gained it back as muscle.

But here's the weird thing. At least in this initial 10 days, I have experienced a huge INCREASE in appetite! Obviously the A/D is working - my zest for life in every department has increased. I'm not sure that I am actually eating MORE total, but the appetite increase is very strong. I don't want to put 35 lbs. back on either!!

Like some others have posted, I tend to graze (translation: eat compulsively) when I'm hyper or anxious, and that's an easy way for me to gain weight without realizing it. No doubt as the "hyper" effect of the WB subsides a bit, so will the grazing.

But has anyone experienced weight GAIN as a side effect of Wellbutrin? I guess only time will tell how my body responds, but I am curious if others experienced the appetite increase, and how it turned out in the longer term.

Tony P


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