Strattera & Adult ADD | ADHD Information

I am curious as to other Adult ADD patients experiences with treatment of their illness using Strattera.  Please briefly share your opinions and experience with this medication. Ive been on stratterra for nearly two weeks.  I have had little or no effect from it.  Im thinking about going back to stimulants.Strattera did NOT help me at all....................Wow, timely subject for me. I wake so thick and groggy that I cannot move.
I thought it was helping on the first week, was less excited the other two, and today am pretty sure I'm going back to wellbutrin.
    On wellbutrein I was assuming I was depressed and didn't take the organizational problems of ADD seriously; I didn't know I had ADD/I.
    Strattera seems to check the hypomanic idea-promulgation somewhat, and that's why I've stuck with it so far. It does give one nausia, and  a hungover feeling some of the time.  Has anyone kept a day to day diary? It is a goodday/badday story...

 

Strattera has helped me, it just makes me really thirsty.  It does make a difference for some not others just like all medication.

I was on Straterra for quite a while--80mg once daily. It took about 6
weeks to get to full effect. It seemed to really help and certainly with the
low-frustration tolerance. BUT, my liver enzymes increased a little so I
went off of it and they are returning to normal...bummer.

Now I am on Ritalin 20mg twice daily and 10mg once daily--works pretty
well--but not as "smooth" as a ride as Straterra.

I am also on Effexor XR 150mg--slowly weaning off this as I was on this
pre-straterrra since it also was a nor-epinephrine reuptake inhibitor,
Buspar 20mg once dailyy, and claratin once daily :-).

Good luck![QUOTE=pluckyduck123]Thanks for all the great replies. Don't be afraid to share your thoughts. (Just no fowl language please) [/QUOTE]

I've been using #$@$ing Strattera bock bock for 2 bock bock %#$%ing weeks. Ha ha! Coulnd't resist.

I started on 14mgs for 4 days, then jumped to 25mgs for 8 days and tomorrow I start on 45mgs for 14 days. After that I will move up to 60mgs. Be sure to ask your doctor/psychiatrist to start you off on a low dose and then work your way up to 60mgs (if you need that much). My psychiatrist told me that by gradually working up to the 60mgs that there will be less of a chance for side effects. She was right! The only side effect I have had so far is the sluggy feeling for the first week. Some doctors and psyhciatrists will start you off on a high dose and that is when the side effects can really kick you in the teeth.

I have taken many drugs for my ADHD. Ritalin  and Dexadrin allowed me to sit and do paper work to a much greater extent then strattera but they also increased my obsessions to the point that I was very anxious and irritable.

zoloft help me change mental channels. It eliminated my obsessions but I became extremely impulsive. If you can imagine a flying woman even more impulsive than she naturally is, than that was me on Zoloft.

I was part of the clinical study for strattera and have used it for over three years. Of the meds I have tried, this works best for me. I find this drug helpful in:

controlling my impulses, improving my focus, changing mental channels, staying awake( I usually feel dosey during the day without the meds) and requiring less sleep, and lessened appetite. Most importantly, this drug helps me act in a self respecting way.

 

The drawbacks are:

I notice problems with my memory, dry mouth, decrease cognitive agility, nausiousness.

 

It really is a toss up.  Do I want respect from others and myself or do I want my brains.

 

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Shock,

Good joke! So far you are the only one that seems to have caught on to my little joke there. I guess no one knows who Pluck Duck is. Sometimes I regret that nickname and want to shoot my sister for giving it to me but it seems to have stuck to me like Duck Tape.

Respect or Brains? Good question!oh yea--no issues with side effects in general, apart from biochemical
abnormalities--gradually worked up to the 80mg, but I DID have night
sweats--that sucked.... but it did gradually lessen.Strattera was something new my husband tried, since the stimulants weren't working too well.  I read all the message boards with the side effects and stuff and I told him before he began that the one thing would hurt him would be the sexual side effects.  He didn't sleep for days only an hour at a time, he didn't eat and was also always thirty.  By the end of the week, when we wanted to be together and couldn't be, he stopped the medicine.  He did feel better in the clarity of the mind and organizition.  So, we are moving on to something else.strattera supposedly works in 70% of casesThanks for all the great replies. Don't be afraid to share your thoughts. (Just no fowl language please) Strattera worked wonders for me. However after about two weeks I couldn't pee so had to quit. Now using adderall xr.

I'm on Strattera because I have Tourette's too. My tics aren't too obvious though.

Strattera has been helpful, but it's not fantastic. I still have trouble switching tasks, procrastinating, but have been able to focus on a task without having the feeling that my mind is wandering all the time. It's doing something, but could be doing more for my ADD.

I have some fantastic days, some terrible days (when I can't get out of the house) and mostly ok days where I waste a lot of time but still manage to get a few things done.

Have some side effects too, wake up feeling groggy, dry mouth, nausea sometimes. It seems to give me a terrible hangover if I drink, so trying to cut down alcohol.

It makes me feel very calm and even, which is good, because I'm not so defensive and ready to argue with people, and bad, because I feel like I don't care about much anymore.

Think a stimulant might do more, but I'm scared about getting bad tics again.

it worked well for me in about week two to twelve, then stopped working at all. I have read that this is common.