the other day i decided to come off strattera , against doctors orders. I have been on it for 10months. A lot has happened in that time, I found out I had add. My spouse did not believe in it, and left me for some one else. I now am a single parent, with full custudy of the kids. when i am on the pills i dont sweat anything. I read a book called add-friendlyway to organize your life bye judith korlberg. They say in the book to make life easy. I put all my bills on auto pay,so they are all paid on time. So there are no worrys. I got rid of most of the clutter in the house, too.
I am taking 80 miligrams a day. I did not blow up all the way through the divorce, even though my x wife brought the boy friend over to my house to get the kids one day. I kept my cool, and stayed in the house. I have been having anxiety attacks lately , I wanted to see who i was before i started taking the pills. so the other day i decided to come off of them. I found out that the pills make all the small or large things go way over your head, and every thing is always cool . Befor taking strattera i had self medicated on marijuana for two years. from day one strattera was great. as soon as i started coming off the medication all the small stuff at work started getting to me I found myself getting angry.bye the time i came home from work things had gotten steadily worse. My sister had hung a three page letter on my refrigerator about all the things she expected me to pay her for, for the last twenty years of my life. I went down to try to talk to her, and lost it. I mean I blew up I screamed at her and came an inch of dragging her out of the house and beating her up. Instead, i got in my car and left before i did somthing that i would regret later. When i am off the meds, i am a hunter again and i am seeking out rolloff dumpsters to dig in, for recycling. All my senses are alert, and I am focused on everything. and my mind is going a million miles an hour. but lately I am looking at all the piles of recycables and wondering why i even brought it home i feel that I am stuck,and the pills are not helping my creativity at all . I have a thousand pojects but none of them are done.

Ouch dude...
I recently came off of Strattera as well, however I did it cold-turkey and I have zero rage problems.

Have you continued to smoke marijuana as well? I smoke it too, did before the meds, during, and after. The only time I ever had rage was when I stopped smoking it, life is just easier to deal with when I'm in that frame of mind, when I'm outside of it I feel out of control..

no i stopped cold turkey on marijuana , it effects your memory to much, and have not gone back, the strattera is a dream drug for me.

I'm planning on quitting Stratterra and I hope (and think) I won't have any withdrawals. I started it in January and I don't think it's doing anything. I don't have a ADD therapist....yet (I need to get motivated to find one) and I don't really care for the doctor who prescribed it for me. My only experiences with Straterra is (besides not knowing the correct spelling. LOL. I spell it different each time) when I was getting used to it, I was freezing alot. That didn't last long but lately it seems like I sweat easily now. Memory wise, I feel the same. Kinda expensive if I don't feel like it's doing anything...I have three more pills and I'm finished. But I don't dare quit my Prozac!!! That would be stupid! Lol. I'll watch out for side effects when I quit.

You've been through a lot! I mean a divorce is the same as having a someone very close to you die and when there's a child envolved the ghost just keeps coming back to haunt you. and coming back! and coming back! Your gonna have an time or two when your going to explode even a so called normal person would do that. But it sounds like you handled it very well and that's just walk away. You can't fix stupid and your gonna have to deal with a lot of stuff with your kids and your kids for a long time. Better get back on the meds, start making lists and bite off a little at a time.