The reason that it is supposed to help with weight loss and quitting smoking (it is the drug in zyban) is that it is supposed to help with impulse control, at least that is what I was told.  I never noticed any changes in that another thing is that the generics are different from the original.  They have the same amount of the same drug but the formula has to be slightly different from company to company, so what may vary from the name brand and even from one generic to another is the make up of the rest of the tablet and therefore the way it is realeased into your system (ie. rate, concentration, etc.) which can impact the possible side effects if it changes when the drug peaks in your system or how long it stays in your system after you take it.  I am on a few different things and one of my other meds the pharmacy switched to a generic and didn't tell me and I didn't know until I went to take it and I take it at night so I couldn't take it back and even if I did with any Rx once you leave the store you can't return it and I couldn't afford to go and get the right pills and throw out the generic and I had side effects that I had not had since I very first started on the medication, and some that I had never had before from this med.  So sometimes it is worth it to go for the name brand.  With my anti-depressents and anxiety med I pay the price for the good stuff, anything else I don't really care.  And try taking it at different times if it is effecting your sleep.  The best thing is to talk to the doctor who prescribed it.  Most surgeons don't know much about mental health issues or meds and most shrinks or family docs (whoever prescribes it for you) don't know much about this surgery, but since there is little to no affect on this med before or after surgery I would go with what the prescibing doc thinks is best and hopefully they know enough about you and these meds that they will make the right sugestions for you.  I trust my shrink with my meds because I know he knows his ****  If your doc knows the meds well he will be able to tell you the best form for you, and when is the best time for you to take it and what the right dosage should be.  And that should not be affected by whether or not you had surgery.

I am on wellbutrin XL, I take 450mg once a day.  It was effecting my sleep when I was taking it in the morning because it would peak in the evening and later so I started taking it at night and it does not effect my sleep anymore.  It will not cause weight gain but the extended release doesn't seem to have the same effects for weight loss and it didn't help me quit smoking either which is one of the things the regular kind is used for.  It is however an effective anti-depressant.  I have not noticed any changes in the effectiveness since my surgery, I am 14 months out now but I never changed to another form after my surgery and never had a problem. 

Thanks Trish.

Something is going to have to happen. His traits are rubbing off on my daughter.

M.

http://therapists.psychologytoday.com/ppc/prof_results.php

This is from the Psychology Today website.  I hope it helps.

Hugs,
Trish

 I can't offer any solutions.  I suck at relationships and I am at a 100% failure rate so far at them. Ha ha.

I just wanted to encourage you to get therapy so you can learn other ways to cope with all those feelings.  Stuffing them down doesn't help anything get better. Hugs and encouragement to you. In couples therapy mostly work on the communication at first. Once you get where you can talk to each other about things without total communication shut down, you will use the communication to work out all the other things piling up. Know what I mean? If you can't talk, then the problems you can't talk about out just pile up.

Sometimes you hit a breaking point and just would rather be alone.
I have. I'm getting old and crotchety though. I will turn into a mean old lady and just knit afghans and collect cats. :)