:confused: I went in to my physician on the first, to discuss medication for ADD, since I had previously been on Strattera with another physician, and had bad side effects with it. He started me on taking Concerta (18 mg), and around 12 hours after I take it, I get a feeling like I'm completely lost. Decisions come to me very slowly. I have trouble coming up with words. I can't make decisions. It usually lasts around an hour, then I start to come out of it, and go back to normal. Other than that, I don't notice any real changes from when I am on Concerta, and it wearing off. I have noticed that I'm able to do things at work that I dreaded before, and would simply not do, such as filing. I have a psychiatrist appointment on Thursday afternoon, to give a 2nd opinion (requested by my physician). I've been putting together as much information as I can, since I know that the moment I step in the door, I'll turn into a complete blank.

Anyways, on the original subject, I was just curious if anyone had any feedback, or similar reactions. My friends are giving me strange looks when I go into a daze. :confused:

--Cayle

Welcome Squirbit! I believe you are experiencing what we call a "rebound". This is a period of time after the meds wear off that your old symptoms will actually increase before leveling off to "normal unmedicated" level.

I experienced rebound with Concerta until I got my meds tweaked properly.

Crazy :cool:

Is there a better way to go about it then? I'm considering talking to my doctor when we re-evaluate my meds to doing a split dose, so I don't get this in the middle of the evening, when it is very inconvenient to my home life. It's awful to come home from work, and immediately turn into a zombie, and just want to go to bed and not be so confused. Any suggestions on what to talk to the doctor about, or to discuss trying in the future?

-Cayle

Just for history's sake, I'm 26, took strattera when I was 24, working up to 60 mg a day, then got really dark feelings, and felt like I was always watching myself from inside my head, so started weening myself off of them, and shortly after lost my insurance.

Since regaining insurance, I went to the doctor, who is trying a stimulant instead, because of the problems I had w/ Strattera. I'm at 18mg right now, but not feeling a huge amount of change. Let me know if there's anything else anyone'd like to know.. lol

Yes many of us stagger doses throughout the day so we can avoid rebound. I do so myself.

Crazy :cool:

I was thinking it could be rebound also. The only way I can tell that my meds wear off now, is that I go right into the "zoning out" stuff that I have always done.
I wanted to say though, that I had some rebound when my dose was to low and the zoning out was really bad, and I also had a little depression when they wore off too. My meds were wearing off fairly quickly, I had rebound, and just didn't feel like I was where I wanted to be as far as functioning either. My doctor kept increasing my dose. He said as long as I was seeing improvement, and not more bad, then he would continue to increase until we were at a good point. When I finally hit the right dose I knew it. I felt great, my meds now last about 9 hours, instead of the 4 hours I was getting off of the 18mg, and the rebound is gone.

So just keep in touch with your doctor, and let him know what is going on. A little tweaking may improve this significantly.