Concerned about Concerta
I've been diagnosed since a little child with ADD, though I was treated during 1st through 5th grade, but due to a overdoes of ritalin, that no one noticed... -
not even my parents - I have amnesia of those years, even the memory of moving cross country and back again.
But recently I've been given Concerta, but it has cause me digestion pains, very high blood pressure and even some liver damage. Yet it worked so well upon my mind, though I'm 18 and my father tells me to stop taking it and I did. But I feel the ADD coming up on me again, the channel changing feeling. Is there any hope of meds that won't damage us?
I don't know. I worry about this too. I take it as I need it for specific tasks or phases. If I'm not doing anything terribly important, I just leave it alone and be my usual goofball self. It's easy to get the wrong dosage. My young cousin was diagnosed with ADD, they *started* him on 30mg of adderall. That would come near to giving me a heart attack. I told my aunt to get a new psych, because this one is inexperienced with ADD.How can a 10 year old have any idea what's going on? The parent's often don't get it either. "Wow, this medicine is great! My child no longer misbahaves! Now he just drools."
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