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Reviewer: Lopez808, 35-44 Female on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Patient)
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Not only used to stop smoking but also depression, and bipolar depression.
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Reviewer: spiffy777, 45-54 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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I switched from Zoloft to bupropion on the advice of my doctor. It seems to be doing the trick, however, about a week after I began taking it, I had a week-long bout of diarrhea. During that same time I had nausea, bloating and sudden flashes of heat. The diarrhea has subsided but the others are still hanging on..I had a colonoscopy and endoscopy this week because my doctor wanted to make sure
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Reviewer: sunny, 65-74 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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Caused thoughts of killing myself
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Reviewer: cant sleep, 35-44 Male on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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i just started this for a week now, all of a sudden i found my self extremely depressed, and i am normally a very happy person with a positive outlook on life. so my doctor prescribed this. so far i think its working, im having some side effects. the big one is insomnia, i was wondering if anyone else has had this and if so does it go away?
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Reviewer: teechur, 45-54 Female on Treatment for 1 to less than 2 years (Patient)
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I started on Bupropion to deal with my depression after I'd lost a lot of interest in a lot of things I'd previously loved like running, competing, exercise, etc. I was crying a lot for no reason, and my previous good self esteem was in the toilet. It really helped with the crying, but it increased my anxiety dramatically and I'd never had anxiety before. I also feel it made my emotion
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