Posted by Michelle Schultz on July 10, 2007, at 12:43:04
In reply to Re: Budeprion (Generic) vs. Wellbutrin » sdworaczyk, posted by i4gotmy_sn on July 10, 2007, at 4:12:54
Your story completely mirrors mine. I work for an insurance company that regularly tells people the generics are exactly the same as the RX. We know how wrong they are. No one listens to us because we have "issues" I bet if we were diabetic they would listen.
Good luck and hang in there.
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?!
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> 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.
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> 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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