Hey everyone,

I just joined the formum.

Took my first doge of Strattera (40mg) around 3pm today. Went to bed around my usual time (3am) and woke ip at 6am after three hours of sleep. I am defintely having insomnia from it, which is funny because a few years back I used to take Ritalin/Concerta and I never had insomnia from that. Have most people been more successful on Straterra or on the stimulants? I liked the idea of Straterra because of it working 24/7 and not wearing off in the evening, etc. Also having sexual side effects too. Debating if it's okay now to take a Tylenol PM to get back to sleep. Good times, LOL. :)

Paul

I noticed the side effects starting to decrease in a couple weeks. For the sleeping issue, I take 6mg of melatonin about an hour before bed, and 200 mg of 5htp daily. Since starting that I havent had any more trouble sleeping. Stick with it. It takes several weeks to notice any difference, but its worth the wait. Good luck, and welcome to the forums!

weird when i was on strattera , it felt like the best drug to make you go to sleep, strattera made me fall asleep like an angel and give me 8-9hrs of sleep, but my friend whod oesn't have a.d.d or w/e i hooked him up with 2 pills of strattera and he mixed it with acid [LSD] a raver drug and the drug lasted 5 extra hrs, and a group of 10 people that all took acid, he was the only one that was functioning like wow for even more hrs with the help of strattera lol i don't do drugs btw... i just helped my friend have a better blasting time with a combination of acid + strattera.

starting out at 40, ouch. I started at 18 and took a while to get up to 40. The sleep problems have dissipated now and I hardly notice anything at my current 80. But it's taken a good 6 mos for the side effects to wane. Just go slow and ramp up over time is the best advice i can give you.

I started out at 40mg too. Then ramped up to 60mg and now at 80mg. I didn't have insomnia at all (quite the opposite) until I hit 80mg. Before going to 80mg it would wear off around 5pm and leaving me lethargic the rest of the evening. On 80mg I was only mildly sleepy during the day while my body was getting used to the dosage, but at night I'd go to sleep ok, but wake up every morning around 3-4am and couldn't get back to sleep at all! So I went out and got me the 5mg Extra Strength Melatonin (available at any drug store or GNC in the States). That stuff is wonderful! I'm sleeping like I've not slept in years after 20 mins of taking it, I'm able to fall asleep and stay asleep for 8-9 hours, in a natural way.

I just started too, a week ago. No noticable side-effects. I felt instantly BETTER. Still not too good at staying on task though.