I'm sorry no one answered your post earlier. Did you finally recover from the hives? I would have suggested that you take an otc allergy remedy such as claritin, which wouldn't make you drowsy, and you could ok with the your doctor to take along side of the wellbutrin.

The reason why I don't like taking something to get rid of the hives is because the reaction you have just seems to be hives, but it could be just covering up something more serious if you took an allergy remedy.

Hi, i have been taking wellbutrin for quite a while now and it's worked perfectly for me. My depression's better and it did reduce my appetite and i even lost a few pounds. Now about the hives, i didn't see any possible side effects of hives on wellbutrin, did you find out what it was? i'm thinking allergic reaction or maybe something totally different...
About other anti-depressants that have little or no risk of weight gain, my doctor told me wellbutrin was the only one but it still doesn't hurt to research or ask your doctor. Anyway hope you are better =]

Whenever (and I don't care what it is) you get severe hives from a medication, stop it emmediatly and call you doctor. Even on a weekend. Some side effects and be deadly with some medications in retospect of whatever else you are taking. Even if that is all you are taking. This sound like a classic syptom of an allergic reaction to the medication. Hives are usually the first thing that show up.

I was on wellbutrin for 5 days, but it's enough for me, I didn't have any apetite, any sleep, I had headache, and finally got awful itching rash and when hives.

I am in the same boat as Zoso. I am 24 years old and was prescribed Wellbutrin about 3 weeks ago. I felt like it was working great right off the bat and I was soooo excited because my Dr and I had went through soooo many other medications within 7 years after being diagnosed with depression and I felt like something was finally working for me, then 3 weeks into taking the drug, I started breaking out in hives, but it would only happen at night. It happened 3 days in a row so I stopped the drug and called my Dr. But...... I was also taking Cipro for a UTI, the dr thought the hives may have been caused by the Cipro, so she told me to stop taking that as well. I stopped taking the Wellbutrin on Thursday and the hives still appeared. So then I stopped the Cipro yesterday (Friday) and only has some minor hives, NO WHERE NEAR what they were like before. My question is, does anyone think it was my Cipro causing this and if its safe to start my Wellbutrin because it really was working.?Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

i could relate to all of you, just the other day i started to get this itch all over my body, i looked in the mirror and noticed these hives, i was scared shocked. i could not sleep that night. in the morning i went to the doctor, he gave ma a shot of benadryl and prescription for benadryl, the next day i was worse,i got to the dr again, he gives me another shot of benadryl and prescrition for famotidine which is a pepcid i dont understand what that is for..and he gave me methylprednlsolone..i just read something called oxyhives.com....u should look it up, ive been reading up on a lot, just thought id share with everyone.

i dont no how i can live like this,,im so depresses ..i had them on my face, i cant deal with this anymore, i hope this goes away, i never had this happend. i just hope its not from a serious condition ive been reading about...

The generic Wellbutrin caused hives for me. However I never had problems with brand name Wellbutrin. Generic sucks. Stick to the real thing.