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Excellent soworried! Great job Please keep us posted
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I am really delighted to hear this 'so worried'. It fills me with hope for us all.
Thanks for keeping us posted!
ps. I find the Omega 3s helpful. I am 47 years old and 67kg.female.
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I have, just didn't want to admit, I have ADHD. I also
had addiction issues with coke. I was tested and was put
on Strattera. The doc is increasing it over a two week
period to 80 mgs. I am on 25mg now. He won't give me
stimulants.I don't want the high, I want the focus. I
have read that Adderal XR is not abusive and has great
reviews and was hoping for that. I am open-minded and
will give it time. I am the type that does not like help
or medication. So when I was put on this and reading all
the negative about Strattera I felt betrayed. On his side
he probably would not want to see me do coke and have a
bad reaction. I haven't for awhile. I need feedback. I
want to focus and calm down but there are no other non-
stimulant types that don't make you tired. I can't
because the nature of my work.
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Dont, whatever you do, go on 80mg a day without going up very, very slowly over a long period of time (if at all).
I have been on Strattera for over two years and I am one of those success stories that you would like to be. I have made incredible advancements in my profession and my family life, I can listen to people, I dont get too down anymore but couldnt say I am without moodswings, but everything is so much better with strattera than before. My life has started since i started taking the thing.
This week I contacted my two psychiatrists, the original one who prescribed it and the one I have now (the change of doctors was beyond their control). I just had to let them know that my dosis of 2 capsules a day seems to be the answer to the successful use of strattera.
I have heard of almost only bad stories of Strattera and its side effects. I can even support the stories, in the beginning they slowly got me up to 60mg a day. I was close to a break down if you can have a break down when on drugs. They reduced it and then I got the feeling that I needed something in the evening, that the low dose wasnt enough, you see I have lots of meetings in the evenings and have to be focused to listen well and write minutes. So then I started on 40mg twice a day and I havent looked back.
Yes the initial phase is scarey with feeling faint, car sickness if you so much as look at a kids swing. But my life has started and it seems to be still with me since March 2008!
Before I forget, I thought I would never remember to take a drug twice a day but I am very proactive about my ADHDS and so initially I had strategies and now I just remember, sometimes 3 or 4 hours late but I never forget it completely.
I wish all you ADHDsers lots of luck finding the right drug. We are not stupid, far far from it, we are locked into our brains. At least that is how I feel, I feel let out of it!
This website is fantastic. Many thanks all who contribute.Shame I dont have time anymore to contribute, I have set my account up so that the website lets me know when someone has contributed to this specific noticeboard on Stratt. I dont have time otherwise. This is very very important to me.
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Has anyone combined low doses of Strattera with Intuniv? The focus was
so good on the Strattera, but the tics came at 40mg..We are now on day 5 of Intuniv and my 10 yr old son didn't want to take it this morning. Doctor is out until tomorrow, but my hunch is that the Intuniv won't be the answer either. At only 1mg, he is irritable, emotional and angry and falling asleep in the afternoons. The Intuniv boards don't really say whether these side effects decrease with higher dosage, but I doubt it.
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Just a little thing to add, I am a 68kg, 47 year old female with hormonal swings. I started off on the Stratt by opening a 25mg capsule and taking half of it each day. I know it is a bit unorthadox but why not if the doc prescribes it? (tastes absolutely disgusting). On this dose, after only about one week I had a life changing experience and will never forget it. I felt mellow and chilled, first time ever. First time in my life without any external cause, I just sat in my kitchen , alone at my computer, late in the evening, in March 2008 and felt calm!
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Sink: That is inspiring to hear...maybe one day for me!
As for the Intuniv...we went off it...we stuck with it for 10 days on 2 MG and couldn't take it anymore. He hated it, and he wasn't pleasant to be around. The first four days he was off it were like he was a new kid...back to sweet self. We are revisiting Straterra and plan to stop when we reach 25 mg since the tics started at 40mg.
How long is it safe to stay on Straterra? I'm concerned about the growth inhibiting side effects.
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That is the possible hitch. I dont know how long I can take the stuff and I dont know what it is doing to my brain in the long run.
Also, since I said I never forget to take the Stratt I have to say I have been thinking about it and it is not true. I do forget to take it, only about once or twice in two or three months but I do forget. It seems to be ok if I do forget to take it though, ie. no big consequences, but I wouldnt want to forget it more often than that.
One more thing, it is better to take it really early ie. 6.30 or 7 if you have to be at work by 9.
I think the ramping process is crucial with Strattera. Inappropriately ramped and you can drive yourself to the nearest secure clinic with an overnight bag!
I mean, too higher doses are being taken of the stuff too early on, and then people complain about the medication and give up on it spreading bad publicity about it in the meantime (so often the case with Strattera) when really they should be reassessing how much of the stuff they are taking or when and how they are ramping (the process of reaching the dose which the pharmaceutical company has worked out your body weight will need to benefit from the med). Hope I am making sense.
I just dont hear anything good about it from anyone except myself, I am afraid it will be removed from the market.
Edited by sink on 04 August 2010 at 4:05pm
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