25 mgs isn't a lot??(maybe i'll stay on 25 mg only..?)I'm 6"1, 145lb(17 year old/m)...my doctor said that the normal dose..er the does that he *can* put me on is around 80mg..that seems like a lot! I have the inatentive adhd, so that means my mind wonders?? Will i get used to not having my mind wonder? like...i was reading...and i could read forever..omg.

after two weeks when the full potential of the strattera drug kicks in...will my life always be a super focused zoning out "high" and so i don't need to try and focuse on things really? i like being a spaz/thinking of random things...but this focusing stuff helps. it helps in school and i can talk on the phone for more then 30 mins(i wouldn't focuse on what a person is saying) so after 30 mins i got tired...i talked on the phone for like an hour/1:30 the first night i took it.

is this what "normal" focusing is like...if you don't have adhd? i'm just used to the old ways. i'm going to talk to my docoter person about other meds...meds that many only make me focuse for 6 hours?....i can focuse on games a lot.. and it's as if i have the same focuse for games on normal acitivies....it's really quite weird. it's a sarreal feeling....then it's as if i'm cheating almost since i can focuse super easily!

i just dk..i'm guessing someone has had this happned to them or something? blah!:faint:

another side note..what should i feel when i take the meds?
...when i take my meds i can hear the lyrics/understand what they're saying better..it's weird. it's like the music is clear?? can everyone nromally hear what "clear" music is? so many questions..gezz...when i'm on my meds it's like it's a dream almost and it's weird! i guess i'm not used to it?

one more thing: i procrasinate a LOT. I just don't know how to start kinda...i know if i start..ill just end up doing something else...are meds suppose to fix that or is that *my* problem? or is like my adhd cuase/ have me prone to procrastion? when taking my meds..it's like i can do my hwk/stuff just since i can? with out trying? .........ya.

WOW. I read the first half of your first post and already I see we have much to discuss, I'm also inattentive, on 25, could read forever AND am EXTREMELY unsure whether higher amounts of Strattera equates to focus or "zoning out". So extremely on the same page!

I too am on 25 mg. Move up to 40mg tomorrow. I don't know about the focus and ADD yet, but it is helping quite well with the anxiety-my doctor is right! That has been the best part of this med for me so far-especially with all the other things going on in my life right now.

Hang in there, I am glad you are getting treated at a young age and don't have to wait as long as I did. Keep advocating for yourself, believe in your abilities, talents, value, intelligence, equality with all other people.

ME

another side note..what should i feel when i take the meds?
...when i take my meds i can hear the lyrics/understand what they're saying better..it's weird.

Ya dude, same thing. Have you also noticed when you look at people's faces you're able to "read" their expression like ten times quicker? Have you noticed getting a slight charge out of being around people socially? In its classical definition I found Strattera somewhat turned me from introvert to extrovert.
As an aside I've been taking it with Dexedrine, I personally lack the will to do anything but watch movies on Strattera alone.
Your writing so far has the exact same "textroversion" I had never had but suddenly did upon taking Strattera! It was a newfound ability to express myself quickly and without needing to sound like a genious at every inch.
Anyways how's the Strattera now? Anything different?

it's been a week. in one more week i'll be kicked up a few doeses or something, but ATM it's fine. I don't feel "different" and i feel like my normal spazy/day dreaming self! haha. god meds are messed up, but i * want* to take them, since i want to be ablet to do in school. i don't really want to take them but it's important for me....im scared about liver damage. i don't drink that much, but i guess i'll have a hihger likely hood of having liver damage?? i want to ask those questions, but im keeping my smoking/drinking/"drug" stuff on DL(not like i do that stuff that much but ya). i don't know what "textroversion" is, but whatever. do you mean like not thought out sentaces/not formal stuff? idk.