As my signature states, I'm on bupropion SR, 150mg twice a day. I've been on it for about three months. The first week, actually the first dose, I could feel the med. I had problems with sleep the first few days and no appetite for about two weeks or so. It didn't bother me that bad, though.

Aside from the slightly negative side effects... I could focus on one thing at a time! If I was getting ready in the morning, I could do just that- and not stop to check my email, and then wonder if someone posted on my hometown sports website, and then remember I had to call someone, and then go back to getting ready, only to decide to do this or that... well, you get the picture. It was amazing, and I didn't realize how messed up my mind was until I could think in an organized fashion. Better yet, it didn't make me feel anti-social, zombie-like, awkward, or zap my creativity like other ADD meds have done.

That was the "honey-moon", and now I don't feel much of a difference is being made. I'm foggy, I have problems remembering anything at all, I mis-read things... I'm generally out of it. I rely on caffeine, although it sometimes makes me feel... even more out of it (like now).

Has this happened with anyone else? Is this common? I'm so frustrated- not many people in my life understand when I say my head's not right, and being stupid is seriously interfering with my life.

Sorry so long... any comments would be seriously appreciated!

Same thing happened to me. I discovered it was the caffeine messing up my motivation.

Try going cold turkey on the caffeine for two weeks. All caffeine soda and tea included. chocolate is ok in small moderations. After that start the wellbutrin again.

You can also try low doses of dexedrine as well with the wellbutrin. I find it works really well.

Honestly I don't know how accurate this is or isn't . We could sit here for hours and here tons of people chime in with their own two cents regarding what food or drink to , or not to consume. Truth be told I stopped drinking caffeine for awhile back a year or two ago and I started doing so much better. I don't know why something so small would impact me so large but maybe theres' more to it with stims and caffeine for treatment. I think I've heard that it can narrow or cause vasoconstriction in some of the channels where your stimulants need to have good access to for alleviating your adhd symptoms . So who knows maybe caffeine really is worth dropping all together. You should give it a shot, you may feel like crap for a few days without your caffeine but isn't that your body telling you that you don't need it anyways? Just one more variable to eliminate from effective treatment right. Crap I'm going to drop taking caffeine for a few days and see what happens...couldn't hurt right

I cut out caffeine totally about two months ago, and well, I just feel way more healthy. The only downside is being tired all the time, but the bonus is having no trouble falling asleep at night. When I started though, I wasn't on WB (as I am now), so we'll see how that works out. I've heard of certain minor difficulties when it comes to WB in combo with other things. That it's best for WB to be the only med to take (if possible) in order to truly feel its effects. When I was on Adderall and took caffeine, I would be like a rocket lol. However, it can be a bit too much and cloud what the prescribed medication is actually supposed to do.

I cut out caffeine completely over the weekend and I was so out of it when I came home after work as I usually power through workouts with caffeine. It's all about quality of life as I know I wouldn't give a crap about caffeine if I were rich and slept till 10am every day. The thing is that I eat good but cutting all caffeine intake is not practical in the hectic lives we americans embark on every single morning. Any of you people who are in pharm sales or a good sales position that allows flex time hours and pays over 100 k let me know because I am sick of talking about meds and how they do or don't ******* work.