HCL

So I looked at my bottles today, and I noticed an interesting little thing...3 letters: HCL.

It means hydrochloric acid. And it's either different or it's not, depending on who you ask, from medicine without HCL. This is the thing. My older medications all had HCL. This one from Walgreens doesn't. Some people say it is still the exact medication, and they just leave the letters out. Others say it's different.

One guy on the same dosage as me had a similar experience. He said he'd been on 150mg wellbutrin HCL XL and then got it without the HCL and they were very different for him. Fewer side effects and all. Another person (not sure if they are on the medication at all) said: HCL(acid) is the hydrochloride form but more importantly the answer you seek concerns "is the acid form best for your application" HCL is the converted form of many compounds for shelf life extension and durability. HCL's are actually poor versions of their former self.

Don't know where that's coming from, but it makes sense to me. I totally believe they're different. I'm feeling different. I get a bit more dizzy standing up, and my IBS-C has worsened a bit (UGH!!), but I definitely feel different. Better, I think. 

So yeah...mystery solved. 

At this point, even if someone had evidence that they're the same, I wouldn't believe them. Not now.