i took wellbutrin for something else, i think around 2006. i noticed that it helped with the pn pain in my feet also. at that time it wasn't reported as being effective on nerve pain and the doctors i had just looked at me askance when i told them. a few years later studies came out about wellbutrin being effective to a degree with nerve pain. i dont remember any side effects from the wellbutrin. after a while though it became less effective for pain for me and i switched.