goughy
03-18-06, 05:54 PM
I started Ritalin IR 2 days ago (friday). I'm also still on my regular 8mg/day dose of reboxetine which wasn't helping my add but was my depression. I've started on 5mg twice a day and each week will be increasing it until I notice a positive effect or negative effect. The max dosage my doc wants me to take is 40mg, or 2 tabs twice a day.
I started on friday and must say I felt different. But that could be attributed to 2 factors. Firstly I was pretty excited to be doing something positive to attack my ineffeciency at work and I also forgot my morning dose of reboxetine. What I did notice was that I stuck at a boring job for about 2 hours without breaking away much and most noticeably I wasn't chatting away as usual. In fact my apprentice mentioned that I seemed pretty quiet. I must say that I felt I got a fair amount accomplished that day. I haven't done much reading these couple of days, but during lunch I was reading a mag and it wasn't hard to stay on the line I was reading, rather than the page going in and out of focus and jumping all over the page etc etc.
Yesterday (saturday) was something different for me. I took my reboxetine dose and honestly didn't feel much different that normal. BUT..... I did manage to unpack and pack the dishwasher and washed, dried and folded 7 loads of laundry. That just dosen't happen. It wasn't hyperfocusing cause I'd take a load out of the dryer, put a load in the dryer then a load in the machine. I'd go back upstairs and fold it then watch a bit of tv, or browse the net or play with the kids. I set a reminder on my pda for when the dryer should be finished then when it went off I'd repeat the cycle. It wasn't hard to do, I didn't ignore my reminders. I even had to clean the dining table off to stack the washing on and not only did I not pile the stuff in the box that was on there..... I actually unpacked the box that was there.
Usually when I clean I hyperfocus a bit and it happens at like 10pm. And usually only when family of friends are coming over and I've left it to the last minute to do it. And it's never happened with laundry. I (and my wife who was sick) were astounded by what I got done. And the funny thing was that I still did heaps of other things too - playing with the kids, watching some tv, a bit of shopping etc. But not going a million miles an hour.
Physically and mentally I felt no different than normal yesterday. I wasn't racing, and I can't say that it felt like my 'brain had eye glasses' on it (the effect I read the most in books and from people when meds work). In a few days I up the dosage to 10mg twice a day. My doc wanted me to increase the dosage till I felt or noticed the difference. I'll be interested in what my staff say about me this week. They'll be the ones who see the most as that's when the meds should be working (if they do).
I started on friday and must say I felt different. But that could be attributed to 2 factors. Firstly I was pretty excited to be doing something positive to attack my ineffeciency at work and I also forgot my morning dose of reboxetine. What I did notice was that I stuck at a boring job for about 2 hours without breaking away much and most noticeably I wasn't chatting away as usual. In fact my apprentice mentioned that I seemed pretty quiet. I must say that I felt I got a fair amount accomplished that day. I haven't done much reading these couple of days, but during lunch I was reading a mag and it wasn't hard to stay on the line I was reading, rather than the page going in and out of focus and jumping all over the page etc etc.
Yesterday (saturday) was something different for me. I took my reboxetine dose and honestly didn't feel much different that normal. BUT..... I did manage to unpack and pack the dishwasher and washed, dried and folded 7 loads of laundry. That just dosen't happen. It wasn't hyperfocusing cause I'd take a load out of the dryer, put a load in the dryer then a load in the machine. I'd go back upstairs and fold it then watch a bit of tv, or browse the net or play with the kids. I set a reminder on my pda for when the dryer should be finished then when it went off I'd repeat the cycle. It wasn't hard to do, I didn't ignore my reminders. I even had to clean the dining table off to stack the washing on and not only did I not pile the stuff in the box that was on there..... I actually unpacked the box that was there.
Usually when I clean I hyperfocus a bit and it happens at like 10pm. And usually only when family of friends are coming over and I've left it to the last minute to do it. And it's never happened with laundry. I (and my wife who was sick) were astounded by what I got done. And the funny thing was that I still did heaps of other things too - playing with the kids, watching some tv, a bit of shopping etc. But not going a million miles an hour.
Physically and mentally I felt no different than normal yesterday. I wasn't racing, and I can't say that it felt like my 'brain had eye glasses' on it (the effect I read the most in books and from people when meds work). In a few days I up the dosage to 10mg twice a day. My doc wanted me to increase the dosage till I felt or noticed the difference. I'll be interested in what my staff say about me this week. They'll be the ones who see the most as that's when the meds should be working (if they do).