Hey there

I have been a sufferer from ADHD for pretty much my entire life, and unfortunately it has not disappeared as an adult. I am currently on Concerta, and I was discussing my rebound with my doctor and he gave me a prescripton to Citalopram (aka: Celexa) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celexa) to deal with it. After doing some research on it online, I'm not too sure if this medication is necessary or if it is appropriate for dealing with it. I do not suffer from depression, and while it does seem to have some benefits against obsessive behaviours which I do suffer from, I have not discussed these with my doctor because at this time I do not feel as if it is that big of a problem (though that may change as time goes on).

In fact, after thinking about it, I'm not even sure if my rebound is THAT bad that I need to take something like this. My rebound is nowhere near as bad as it was as a child, and seems to be mostly limited to angry or violent thoughts (that I would never act on) and increased agitation. Like why take a new med to deal with a minor side effect, which could introduce numerous new implications and side effects??? I also take some sleeping meds as well to help kill the "buzz" from the Concerta that could keep me up till 4am, and that also limits my rebounding as well I believe.

Ultimately, I would like a second opinion on whether these meds would be beneficial to my rebound, and whether you think they are necessary.

My Doctor has prescribed me with the same stuff and for the same reason. I have the same concerns too.

Please let me know if you found out anything since you posted last. Or if there is anyone out there who can shed some light on whether it is sensible to use these two meds together, I would be very grateful.

Here I come to hand out another of my own 2C..I have done it a lot today, soon I will be broke! :D

OK I took Concerta for almost a year, 81mgs in the AM and then added various booster meds to get me through my very long days. This is my spin on it.

In the beginning, I did have some pretty crummy rebounds. I distinctly remember crying a few times, as the clarity left me and everything got worse for a while, before balancing back out to the "normal" spacy-foggy-distracted me.

As much as rebound distressed me? I never took anything to counteract it. Not once. The boosters were to keep me out of that fog during a time when I seriously needed to be sharp, but eventually, as expected, they wore off too. I also never experienced any problems with sleeping, not due to the Concerta anyway. It would be well out of my system by bedtime...which was a bit of a bummer, because the times that I would manage to get some sleep, like a nap, fully medicated? I had a much easier time falling asleep and slept very well.

For me rebound eventually became less and less bothersome, sort of like you seem to be saying Electrify. Eventually I had one of those "lightbulb over the head" moments, and realized that I was no longer rebounding at all, or if I was? It no longer distressed me even slightly.

I cannot say that this will happen for everybody who takes Concerta, but that's how things went for me.

Personally? I would not take a medication that I believed I did not need. I have had bad experiences with antidepressents, especially SSRIs like Celexa (yes I have taken that at one time) but those were mostly due to undiagnosed bipolar disorder. Of course I also had bothersome side effects in addition to the bad experiences.

So...I don't know. I have never had such a thing suggested to me. My doctor was of the opinion that rebounds happen, and then they get better with time. And he was right.

My 2C, free as always.

medicating a side effect? (e.g. the withdrawal effects)


your Doc is going to do that?