I took bupropion from about February to November 2021.
After a pretty rough transition I found it to be a quite effective antidepressant, but it gave me very bad insomnia which I needed to take sleeping pills to overcome (this kind of sucked as it meant I had to be very careful to take all my meds at the right time of day, and couldn’t increase the dose). I’m also quite confident that it made me more anxious.
That said, I would still definitely recommend it over SSRIs or mirtazapine, both of which have very common and serious side effects that I think are worse than bupropion’s for most people.
I’m considering trying bupropion again when I move to the US in 2022, since there is a shorter-half-life version available there that is not available in the UK.
I took bupropion from about February to November 2021.
After a pretty rough transition I found it to be a quite effective antidepressant, but it gave me very bad insomnia which I needed to take sleeping pills to overcome (this kind of sucked as it meant I had to be very careful to take all my meds at the right time of day, and couldn’t increase the dose). I’m also quite confident that it made me more anxious.
That said, I would still definitely recommend it over SSRIs or mirtazapine, both of which have very common and serious side effects that I think are worse than bupropion’s for most people.
I’m considering trying bupropion again when I move to the US in 2022, since there is a shorter-half-life version available there that is not available in the UK.