But does it make people b*tchier? That might sound weird. I mean, it's more potent, and more efficient, and those are good things so it would work like/better than a higher dose of the BARR stuff would. Husband keeps saying I've been in a mood...(course, crappy stuff happened lately, so he's like, "Well, yeah, that's true...don't know, go ask those people on that website forum thing...")

And I took it @ 9:00 AM and am still up, all thinking-a-mile-a-minute. What's up with that?

Chrys

If it was stronger it would tend to make you more agressive at the same "dose". Malinkrodt actually manufactures the active ingredients themselves - vs buying them from someone else - they are a major manufacturer of industrial pharmacueticals - so maybe their drugs are "fresher"???

I don't know...when my father-in-law talks about his prescription Ibuprofen being superior to OTC Motrin/Advil/etc., he always uses the word "purity"...basically the same as what you said. I thought about it, and realized that it could very well just be the situation I'm in right now with stress, not the meds, necessarily.

This stuff helps me think better, and I'm not the only one who figured we'd never find anything that really would. I don't want to go off of it. And I feel better now...certainly better and less wired and freaky (good Lord, I was climbing the walls last night, and I don't think it was the meds, necessarily--well, technically, it was this morning--5 a.m.)...and then BOOM, I felt all sleepy out of nowhere when I'd just been acting cracked out (pardon my language) for so long and nearly passed out in the office! Made it to the bedroom, thank goodness. Wacky. I was mad last night too, 'cause I'd spent 4 hours or so working on an assignment, and then realized that I'd misinterpreted the requirements of that assignment and what actually had to be done took, like, 5-10 minutes max.
I'm catching up on homework, my kid's playing with his grandma 3 hours away on a farm, getting tons of attention, and not upset like he has been because mommy can't play 'cause she's doing homework, and behind on some of it...@ his pediatrician's checkup last week he was freaking out and they indicated that they suspected some sort of behavior or emotional problem, which reaaaaly made me freak and feel awful and stress out--I hate that hospital, and have always thought the doctors were stupid, but sometimes, including this time, I get sucked into just blindly accepting their theories--later, thinking rationally, I agreed with my husband and everyone else that it was likely just the mommy-attention-lacking situation...he just went to grandma's yesterday, and I already feel better today, so maybe it was just a guilt trip thing, anger with myself, projected toward, well, mostly my husband, but a couple of other people, too--like the poor guy who had to put new tires on my car last week--I was insanely demanding and suspicious that he was ripping me off, when he really wasn't! (Sidenote: husband's worried about the sleeping thing, had me set an alarm every day for midnight as the latest to stay up--it'll play this dooming music and flash "Go the f(curse) to bed, you stupid b(curse)!" *Little freaked out about warnings at the moment, that's what's up with the b/f(curse) thing.* Don't worry. He didn't write that--I wrote that in a goofy mood.


Sorry I wrote all this. Should've just said "thanks."

Chrys

p.s. Oh, yeah...BTW, some of the women who I told this whole "kid might have behavior problems and I'm freaking out" story to were kind of upset and thought that I would have some big problem with him potentially having ADD. Just to let you know--that would've been fine, and somehow it came across wrong, so if it came across wrong here, too, I sincerely apologize and wish to let you know that if my kid has ADD we would handle it and I wouldn't be, like, "ashamed" of him or something stupid like that.


If it was stronger it would tend to make you more agressive at the same "dose". Malinkrodt actually manufactures the active ingredients themselves - vs buying them from someone else - they are a major manufacturer of industrial pharmacueticals - so maybe their drugs are "fresher"???