wellbutrin and overeating

[stacy34]

hi i guess i made some type o's in my last entry, hard to understand.  My question is that i was given wellbutrin xl 150 mg, for my pmdd and depression, which leads me to overeat. My docter said this would help, well i have been on it a week and while it has made a difference in my eating habits, it has been very hard on my vision.  I keep seeing black spots and having really blurry vision.  Should I stay on it, will this go away, or is there another AD that will help with overeating and depression?  Please help I am scared!!!!

[Peaceful1]

Your advise does not seem to take into consideration the chemical changes that go on with anti-depressants.  To explain my position, I am a chronic pain sufferer, therefore, I have chronic depression, and to help in it's managment, I was on Zoloft for almost a year.  My appetite went to nil, and, mainly I felt like eating salty foods, fresh foods, and potassium foods, and I lost 30 pounds , but, I was having very bad shakes, and tiredness on Zoloft,  and blurry vision, so, I asked my doctor if I could change to Lexapro at the suggestion of my daughter and nephew, since both had good luck with Lexipro, and shared their own problems on Zoloft.
My husband and his mom are perfectly content with Zoloft, so I assume my chemical makeup, like my daughter and nephews, became further imbalanced by the Zoloft.  When I was switched to Lexipro, suddenly, from the first day, I wanted to eat everything in sight and could not resist foods I knew were not good for me.  Candy bars, and anything sweet tasting with fat in it became an obsession.  I gained 20 pounds back in the first 2 months being on Lexipro.  All I could think about was food.
I think a lot of people have these kind of problems, and I am sure that is why there are so many different types of anti-depressants, since we are not all chemically the same.  It sounds like Stacy34 is having some really bad reactions to Wellbutrin, and my advice to her would be to wait another week or 2, and if the side effects she is experiencing don't go away, she should ask her doctor if there might be another she could try-one that has less side effects on her.  
If, generally, this prescription works on other people, does not mean it is the best one for her chemical makeup.  If she did not have the different eating habits and blurry vision, until she started on the wellbutrin, it stands to reason it is the wellbutrin causing this change.
Food for thought

[Roger Gould, M.D.]

Wellbutrin is the best for this...but as I said below, there is a  much better way to control both depression and over eating, and that is changing your eating habits, and dealing with the emotional issues that will surface then, the ones that drive this habits...