I answered you over there, hon (I'm konolia there, in case you didn't know.)

I have no advice, but I did want to say that that sounds sucky. I'm sorry it's been such a hassle!

I saw, thank you!
I'm not jittery, that I can tell, but I'm a jittery person on a regular basis, so that could be why.

It's just very surreal. I have this emotional "YEEEEHHHAAAAA LETS ALL DANCE!" thing going on while I feel like, physically, I've been hit with a truck.

....oh, and if you get Too Happy? That's a bug, not a feature...

Really? I would have thought it was a good thing.

I had horrible reactions to wellbutrin and it never got better. Panic attacks, primarily - I waited through about two weeks of hell before I gave it up. In retrospect, I wish I'd given it up after one week. Or possibly less. YMMV, but I hate that stuff and then, a couple years later, when my son had a horrifying, suicidal depression reaction to Straterra, the (atrocious, terrible, should be debarred IMHO) shrink said, "You should have taken him off it immediately!" Not particularly helpful, since you're always told to wait out side effects and ramp off psychotropic meds. Then she said, "Oh, if you'd told me you'd had a bad reaction to Wellbutrin I would never, ever have put your child on Straterra." Which was really unhelpful, given that she never effing asked me about any drug reactions I might have had to anything, just popped my kid on a bad, heavy duty ADD drug nonchalantly. Yargh! Since then, anyway, I've been way more careful about what I do and don't take. well, I mean, except for, like, street drugs, because everybody knows they're safer than that doctor office bullshit, right?

. . . JOKING! mostly.

I didn't take it this AM, and just took it at lunch... with food. So far the stomach is OK, no headache anymore (and the painkillers are worn off by now), and all seems OK.

I think I might have just been taking too much.

Yay! I'm glad there's hope in sight.

I had similar reactions to Wellbutrin as MGL, which cumulated in my sister driving an hour several times a week when I was getting off it to make sure I wasn't suicidal (I wasn't. I think. It really, really messed me up.).

I was pretty mad when I read about some of the psychiatric side effects of the drug - I read all the stuff on the insert and on the bottle, and those side effects were super downplayed, but apparently not too uncommon.

Glad to hear that your headache is gone (I got that just from quitting smoking, not from the drug), keep an eye on your side effects and make sure someone is watching out for you a little (for both quitting smoking support and for weird side effects you might not be noticing).

O, and I wanted to add a "YAY Kellydamnit" for working toward quitting smoking.

I still like smoking, but I will never ever do it again, just because it's too hard to stop. The most marked change I got from it was the number of people who said my color looked better and my skin looked nicer - people who didn't even know I had quit smoking! That was something I wasn't expecting.

Go Kellydamnit!!!!

Just as another data point, a friend of friend committed suicide while taking Wellbutrin for smoking cessation.

Yeah, and Yay Kelly! Best of luck to you. Just because it's hard doesn't mean you can't do it!

As another data point, Wellbutrin makes some people toweringly, massively, multiply, exhaustingly horny.

You might decide to, um, ride out the side-effects.

Oh... my.
hm.
the last person I dated told me I had the libido of a sixteen year old boy.
being single is sure going to suck for the next few weeks.

It really helped me quit smoking kellydamnit. I hope you get past all this and quit. It's very freeing not to need a smoke anymore.

I'll second arse_hat on how awesome it is to not need a smoke. I don't get edgy in movies, I don't have to rush outside after dinner, it's all very awesome :)

I really want to quit. I live in BUFFALO. It's like 15 today! It would be awesome not to have to go out in that.

Oh, and on day 2 of taking half what I was initially told to, I feel fine. Not giddy or anything, just my usual self. I still want to smoke, but I've noticed packs are lasting longer without a conscious effort to cut down.