Hello everyone,
When I was diagnosed with depression, my doctor gave me a prescription for Wellbutrin. I started the first week on 150mg pills and am now 2 weeks into taking 300mg pills. All of the sudden though, I've begun to feel extreme itching, enough to keep me awake at night. Nothing has changed in my living area that would have lead to this and I've been eating normal stuff so I can't say it's from either of those things.
I am getting small marks on itchy parts of my body though I don't know what would constitute a "welt", and after taking some benadryl the itchiness lessened but was still there.
I noticed intense itching on my palms earlier today and blew it off thinking that it was just dry skin or something, but now the bases of them are red and a little inflamed. Currently the worst spots are pretty much all of my legs and back, right shoulder and stomach. It's late now and I'm going to wait to call my doctor until tomorrow because I wanted to find out if this is something I should be concerned about first, or if it is just some regular side effect that people experience.
Thank you for any imput.
When I was diagnosed with depression, my doctor gave me a prescription for Wellbutrin. I started the first week on 150mg pills and am now 2 weeks into taking 300mg pills. All of the sudden though, I've begun to feel extreme itching, enough to keep me awake at night. Nothing has changed in my living area that would have lead to this and I've been eating normal stuff so I can't say it's from either of those things.
I am getting small marks on itchy parts of my body though I don't know what would constitute a "welt", and after taking some benadryl the itchiness lessened but was still there.
I noticed intense itching on my palms earlier today and blew it off thinking that it was just dry skin or something, but now the bases of them are red and a little inflamed. Currently the worst spots are pretty much all of my legs and back, right shoulder and stomach. It's late now and I'm going to wait to call my doctor until tomorrow because I wanted to find out if this is something I should be concerned about first, or if it is just some regular side effect that people experience.
Thank you for any imput.
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I just started taking Wellbutrin XL after a long absence (I switched to Cymbalta which was wonderful but killed my sex drive). I was looking forward to going back on Wellbutrin a great deal. Two days into taking the pills (150 mg), I realized I was not feeling well. It was a similar sensation as a high sugar reaction. Tonight, upon going to bed, I started to itch all over. It appears it is a side effect that is even more common with the generic (which I was given). I did not have this experience before on Wellbutrin but I was also gradually put up to 150 mgs... and I do not think I ever took the generic. For tonight, I just took some benedryll. I plan on calling my doctor in the morning to see what suggestions she has. I am inclined to see if I can get the non-generic (actual wellbutrin) from the pharmacy, too... to see if that makes a difference. I can't handle this itching!
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