I initially started treatment for ADD with buproprion. The doc thought it might be a good double whammy. Hitting the depression and maybe also the ADD. Doc was wrong though. It worked well enough on the depression but did very little for the ADD symptoms.

So, Doc recently started me on strattera. I have only been on it for a little over a week. So far I get headrushes if I stand or sit too quickly, I don't sleep much anymore, and I haven't been on it long enough for therapuetic effects to become apparent.

I can't say I miss the sleep. It does creep up on you unexpectedly though. I don't suggest driving until you know how and when this sort of thing will hit. They say it will pass and at present it isn't that bad.

The headrushes only seem to occur as the dosage gets ramped up last for a couple of hours and then disappear. So, again we have a manageable side effect.

I just hope it works. I am getting ready to go an an extended deployment and it is hard enought to get stimulant meds from the Navy in port. If the strattera does not work it could be a very long cruise. Hopefully my doc can handle that eventuality from shore.

I recently had a very good experience with treating some rather nasty anxiety problems with meds. I expected some help, but they knocked it out completely with minimal side effects. As long as I stay on them I am good. Working on lowering and perhaps even eliminating the meds now. This gives me hope that the ADD might also be responsive to meds.

There are aspects of it I like, in truth I like most of it, but I do not like not fitting in our modern world. If I ran things I would be just fine, because I know how to live like this and function my way. Working for norms is a whole other ball game. I feel crippled. I feel disgust for the fact they can deal with such boring crap day in and day out and never seem to hope for anything new or exciting. I feel angry for being misunderstood and judged by people. They think the problems are the results of character flaws. They are all apart of me though and I am no character flaw. So, I take the meds and hope to fit in better whilst all the while I dream of a lifestyle in which my ADD is a fit in instead of a misfit.

Hi E-Boy...

How ya doing on the Strattera since the end of July?

Originally posted by E-boy



There are aspects of it I like, in truth I like most of it, but I do not like not fitting in our modern world.

If I ran things I would be just fine, because I know how to live like this and function my way. Working for norms is a whole other ball game. I feel crippled. I feel disgust for the fact they can deal with such boring crap day in and day out and never seem to hope for anything new or exciting.

I feel angry for being misunderstood and judged by people. They think the problems are the results of character flaws. They are all apart of me though and I am no character flaw. So, I take the meds and hope to fit in better whilst all the while I dream of a lifestyle in which my ADD is a fit in instead of a misfit.



Me too....especially the part about dreaming of the day my ADD is a "fit" instead of a "misfit".....

Originally posted by E-boy
I just hope it works. I am getting ready to go an an extended deployment and it is hard enought to get stimulant meds from the Navy in port.

This is interesting. Do the Navy, Army, Air Force, and Marines all allow enlistees who have been diagnosed with ADD and are currently taking stimulants?

-Mike