Just curious if anyone out there has felt WAY more energetic on Strattera. I've always heard that Strattera causes fatigue for a lot of people, but for me it definitely quintupled my endurance, at least! (Sadly, I'm not taking that anymore but am on Focalin XR and sometimes it seems to work; other times I'm a zombie).

Pre-ADHD meds, I used to need to sleep 9-10 hours/night (and even then would need naps), was a useless zombie on even 7 hours. Enter Strattera...and then I was getting by on 5-6 hours during the week, was able to recover more quickly from a number of all-nighters I had to pull occasionally that semester, and only ever needed max of 8 hours sleep on weekend nights to catch up after really busy weeks.

Plus, I wonder if it made me more hyper...I felt like I became the "class clown" and was doing so many projects, working ALL the time by choice; I thought I was going to "take over the world" (not in a crazy way, just that I felt this huge urge and ability to make up for all the time I'd "lost" while unmedicated for ADHD).

Anyone else relate to that? Is that weird/atypical? Lately I've also become concerned that I may have undiagnosed bipolar and am wondering if that might have been some sort of (hypo)manic response to the Strattera. Anyway, right now I really miss it, because I am getting NOTHING done on just the Focalin!

Im finding norepinephrine helps me in ways I never imagined... unfortunately the only time I get it is through the Wellbutrin somewhat... official sources state that Wellbutrin is twice as potent a dopamine reuptake inhibitor as it is an norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor.

Just curious if anyone out there has felt WAY more energetic on Strattera. I've always heard that Strattera causes fatigue for a lot of people, but for me it definitely quintupled my endurance, at least! (Sadly, I'm not taking that anymore but am on Focalin XR and sometimes it seems to work; other times I'm a zombie).

Pre-ADHD meds, I used to need to sleep 9-10 hours/night (and even then would need naps), was a useless zombie on even 7 hours. Enter Strattera...and then I was getting by on 5-6 hours during the week, was able to recover more quickly from a number of all-nighters I had to pull occasionally that semester, and only ever needed max of 8 hours sleep on weekend nights to catch up after really busy weeks.

Plus, I wonder if it made me more hyper...I felt like I became the "class clown" and was doing so many projects, working ALL the time by choice; I thought I was going to "take over the world" (not in a crazy way, just that I felt this huge urge and ability to make up for all the time I'd "lost" while unmedicated for ADHD).

Anyone else relate to that? Is that weird/atypical? Lately I've also become concerned that I may have undiagnosed bipolar and am wondering if that might have been some sort of (hypo)manic response to the Strattera. Anyway, right now I really miss it, because I am getting NOTHING done on just the Focalin!

Hey, I'm sorry, I can't help with your problem, but I was wondering how come you don't take Stratterra anymore, when helped you so much?

I have quite debilitating problems with inertia and lack of ability initiating actions and am going on meds some time in the future, so I read up on the different meds right now, and your thread just made me reconsider Stratterra, which on first glance didn't look like it would benefit me.

I'm hoping some others have your experience with Strattera. :)

How long have you been off it?

Now I'm thinking about your thought about bipolar. If you're bipolar you should be "able" to have such periods without Stratterra, right, and they would pop up every once in a while?

Norepinephrine makes me aroused in things... like Im interested in things and they dont bother/anxietise me. My trains of though, other humans, activities I'm engaging in or about to, etc.

Hey, I'm sorry, I can't help with your problem, but I was wondering how come you don't take Stratterra anymore, when helped you so much?

I have quite debilitating problems with inertia and lack of ability initiating actions and am going on meds some time in the future, so I read up on the different meds right now, and your thread just made me reconsider Stratterra, which on first glance didn't look like it would benefit me.

I'm hoping some others have your experience with Strattera. :)

How long have you been off it?



That's a very good question...I did not want to quit Strattera, but my doctor (does pdoc=psychiatrist or primary physician?) did not want me to take Strattera and a stimulant at the same time. I felt strongly that Strattera helped me IMMENSELY in just about every area of my life (and I was truly overjoyed about this!), EXCEPT for some of the more important executive functions, and so after a very brief period of being on Strattera and a stimulant, he had me quit Strattera. This was before we'd really honed what was going on with the stimulant (first it was Methylin, and now various combos of Focalin XR and IR), which really annoyed me, but I digress...

For example, although I was motivated, energetic, more able to start and complete projects, more able to speak clearly without bungling trains of thought, actually able to listen to people even when they were talking about boring things, could actually SEE more crisply because the info from my eyes was somehow being more clearly transmitted to my brain (!) etc. etc. I was NOT able to: have any awareness of time (hyperfocused on the wrong parts of projects, still ran late for everything, could not estimate to save my life how long anything would take me

structure/plan multi-step projects or writing without MUCH effort

other stuff which I can't remember offhand now (should have written it down, I guess)
Basically I thought everything was GREAT with Strattera except that it needed a little something "more". I got maximum benefit at 80 mg--tried 100 but was VERY irritable and had a tendency to get unnecessarily weepy over stupid things, with no payoff for the higher dose. I was still more irritable than "normal" on Strattera at any dose, but I actually found this a welcome change (usually) since before I'd often felt like I was too accommodating.

So we tried adding stimulants to the Strattera, and to make a long story short the responses seemed inconsistent. I'm an extremely fast metabolizer and sometimes the stims seemed to last only a couple hours, sometimes longer, sometimes shorter. And the "crash" from the stims brought me down much lower than the Strattera "baseline", which was disappointing. So the doctor's thought was that maybe the Strattera was making these stims not behave properly. It sounded like weird logic to me--if Strat. was working before and stims made it weird, why not try other, different stims before cutting the thing that worked?


Anyway, I think Strattera is definitely worth trying. Also, something you might like to know is that I did NOT have most of the side effects that people complain about. It sounds like it's h*** in a bottle for lots of people, but I was very lucky! Had some insomnia that eventually went away. Let's see, there was maybe 30 seconds (literally!) of nausea one day, and that was it. Maybe anxiety, but I was having a very stressful semester so who knows which component of my life caused that.

I'm not sure it will give you the energy it gave me since my doctor seemed puzzled that it did that to me. Please feel free to ask me any questions you want about the Strattera--I still feel very fondly for it (I went into "mourning" at having to quit it! :D hope that wasn't some sort of addiction).

I've only been off it for a little over a month.


Now I'm thinking about your thought about bipolar. If you're bipolar you should be "able" to have such periods without Stratterra, right, and they would pop up every once in a while?

Yes, I did have those periods occasionally before Strattera, and have had a bit of it, randomly, since stopping. I think the big difference was that it was more constant with Strattera. On Strattera I think I spent half of the day feeling elated/on top of the world/like I'd finally be able to do all those brilliant genius things I felt I was capable of, and the other half of the day (at work) feeling incredibly irritated at my current dumb job!

Those periods definitely popped up now and then; sometimes they seemed related to incredible ideas I had for projects--would get totally charged with energy and work on them constantly and, yes, I think I got by with less sleep during those times, and then I would crash. Definitely had/have "cycles" of inspiration-crash, build up again, repeat. I never kept good track of any of that, though, so I don't know what was causing what.

I don't know if I answered your question or not--I think I am getting off track, so I will stop for now! But feel free to let me know if I didn't answer your question (or if you have more Strattera questions) and I will be very happy to answer.

Norepinephrine makes me aroused in things... like Im interested in things and they dont bother/anxietise me. My trains of though, other humans, activities I'm engaging in or about to, etc.

Me too--definitely was very interested in lots of things. I didn't have the benefit you got with being less bothered by things, unfortunately--but it did help me try to work harder at trying to fix them!

Im going thru the process of restarting meds with a new doc and so far ive tried far higher dose or ritalin than before. the high dose didnt seem to be any diferent at all wich is odd.

ritalin suposedly afects dopamine but i read somewhere low doses of ritalin also afect norapeneprine.

I know dexedrine works well for me and that affects both. its interesting stratera made you less tired as my major problem is major tiredness. however it seems yours was an atypical response, I may be sltightly more keen to try it if thats what he recomends.

im sure the ritalin helps my executive functiong though wich is promising. i just need something to take away the constant drowsiness. at the moment only extreme anger wakes me up but this usualy has a high price to pay.

Im going thru the process of restarting meds with a new doc and so far ive tried far higher dose or ritalin than before. the high dose didnt seem to be any diferent at all wich is odd.

ritalin suposedly afects dopamine but i read somewhere low doses of ritalin also afect norapeneprine.

I know dexedrine works well for me and that affects both. its interesting stratera made you less tired as my major problem is major tiredness. however it seems yours was an atypical response, I may be sltightly more keen to try it if thats what he recomends.

im sure the ritalin helps my executive functiong though wich is promising. i just need something to take away the constant drowsiness. at the moment only extreme anger wakes me up but this usualy has a high price to pay.

I think it was an atypical response so definitely discuss your situation thoroughly with your doctor--I believe I have heard of people sometimes having more energy on Strattera but I haven't heard of anything as dramatic as what I experienced. I'm most definitely not a doctor, and I don't want to lead anyone astray with my experiences!

I am seeing my doctor again on Thursday, and I think we are going to be readdressing some concerns I've brought up before about maybe being bipolar in addition to the ADHD (which is for sure!) I doubt I'll come away with any sort of actual new diagnosis but I will update here about that if it happens and seems relevant to the Strattera (such as, if it turns out I'm bipolar that might explain the reaction I had to the Strattera, in which case it may have been an unhealthy reaction, and people shouldn't get their hopes up!)

Oh, I forgot to mention in the initial post that I was also drinking a lot of coffee while I was on Strattera, BUT I drank a lot of coffee before I was on Strattera, and it didn't give me much energy at all at that point (could go to sleep after drinking coffee sometimes!) Maybe the combination of the two is potent somehow? I don't know; just a guess.

Ive been doing a bit more browsing on this as i came across it as a treatment for narcolepsy to treat excessive daytinme sleepiness, so there must be something to it, although the recomendation to perservere with the side effects for 3-4 weeks sounds grim, if i get any worse from the side effects I would need some help just to survive.

however the wiki site on startera doesnt sugest its use for narcolepsy.

I also notice stratera is a norapeneprine agonist, and ritalin is a dopamine agonist, I do well on dexedrine wich is an agnoist for both, i feel i get the control with ritalin so presumably dopamine does this, and presumablye norapeneprine helps with the tiredness.

The best i get so far is from anger, it wakes me up instantly, wich is adrenaline/(norapeneprine?) , however this usualy doesnt come with any sense of self control, but this is probably as much to do with the state of mind that goes with anger.

however i have noticed breif and suden feelings of anger have woken me up enough and alowed me to perform far better than normal, but only when the actual state of mind has been intense but fleeting and not so unpleasant as to put me in a bad mood wich tbh has probably only hapened about once to a degree wich is very memorable.

Ritalin is not a dopamine agonist... amphetamines are.. but not methylphenidate... it is simply a dopamine reuptake inhibitor... it does not "agonise" or "release" dopamine from the vesticles.

Strattera is a norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor... it doesn't release norepinephrine.

Ive been doing a bit more browsing on this as i came across it as a treatment for narcolepsy to treat excessive daytinme sleepiness, so there must be something to it, although the recomendation to perservere with the side effects for 3-4 weeks sounds grim, if i get any worse from the side effects I would need some help just to survive.


Here's a link toward some "official" information about Strattera--this information is geared more toward pharmacists than toward patients or a general audience (it's long, dense, and much less readable, so pick a time when your attention span is at its best:D):
http://www.healthyplace.com/Medications/strattera.asp

The information on this site looks to me to be the exact same material that I received with my Strattera prescription, which is why I posted the link (since we can't upload files--otherwise I would have scanned my pamphlet). I preferred reading this over the watered-down patient-oriented information that also came with my prescription, but I did have to be in the right mood to read it!

I don't recall there being a mention of narcolepsy in that information, but it's always possible that some people may be unofficially using it for that purpose. However, my disclaimer: I don't know and am just guessing, so as always please take my comments with a grain of salt!

I also notice stratera is a norapeneprine agonist, and ritalin is a dopamine agonist, I do well on dexedrine wich is an agnoist for both, i feel i get the control with ritalin so presumably dopamine does this, and presumablye norapeneprine helps with the tiredness.

Thanks for this info--somehow in all the reading I did on ADHD meds, I'd either missed or forgotten that dexedrine affects both dopamine and norepinephrine. I may ask my doctor if I can try that next, since the Focalin just isn't cutting it for me.


The best i get so far is from anger, it wakes me up instantly, wich is adrenaline/(norapeneprine?) , however this usualy doesnt come with any sense of self control, but this is probably as much to do with the state of mind that goes with anger.

however i have noticed breif and suden feelings of anger have woken me up enough and alowed me to perform far better than normal, but only when the actual state of mind has been intense but fleeting and not so unpleasant as to put me in a bad mood wich tbh has probably only hapened about once to a degree wich is very memorable.

I am just curious if you have always felt that way (with the anger) or if it happens to you more on your meds. Unfortunately I don't have any advice about that but am interested in your experiences, since I have had anger issues on and off through my life. I know that NOTHING gets me to focus like somebody telling me that I "can't" do some project I've set my mind on or that it's "impossible"--that sends me off into a huge, almost obsessively-focused flurry of activity to prove them wrong--which I usually do (not to mention that I really DO want to do the project in question!) So I guess that's focused anger for me.

ignore this, started my own thread...

Just curious if anyone out there has felt WAY more energetic on Strattera. I've always heard that Strattera causes fatigue for a lot of people, but for me it definitely quintupled my endurance, at least! (Sadly, I'm not taking that anymore but am on Focalin XR and sometimes it seems to work; other times I'm a zombie).

Pre-ADHD meds, I used to need to sleep 9-10 hours/night (and even then would need naps), was a useless zombie on even 7 hours. Enter Strattera...and then I was getting by on 5-6 hours during the week, was able to recover more quickly from a number of all-nighters I had to pull occasionally that semester, and only ever needed max of 8 hours sleep on weekend nights to catch up after really busy weeks.

Plus, I wonder if it made me more hyper...I felt like I became the "class clown" and was doing so many projects, working ALL the time by choice; I thought I was going to "take over the world" (not in a crazy way, just that I felt this huge urge and ability to make up for all the time I'd "lost" while unmedicated for ADHD).

Anyone else relate to that? Is that weird/atypical? Lately I've also become concerned that I may have undiagnosed bipolar and am wondering if that might have been some sort of (hypo)manic response to the Strattera. Anyway, right now I really miss it, because I am getting NOTHING done on just the Focalin!



Exactly the same man! Its a god send, really is...check out my success story in that forum topic! Love it to bits, only thing i notice, sometimes im a little bit quick to get angry....but generally im the best part of me more often! The happy, funny...silly but now motivated, effective in my work.I've never been happier!

Glad someone can relate to this =)

I totally agree !
For procrastination and jaspero:
how many mg's are you both on??
Im a 17 year old female, and strattera does WONDERS for me too.
Makes me feel energized! 100x better than when I used to not be medicated for ADHD. I think I'm a fast metabolizer though and kind of feel like a freak...I have to take over 100 mg and I weigh about 130 lbs(almost 6 feet tall.)

Can u both relate at all to a high dosage??

Oh and also, seperately:

Does anyone take strattera and also another ADHD med with it during certain points of the day?? Ive heard thats also an option.

I totally agree !
For procrastination and jaspero:
how many mg's are you both on??
Im a 17 year old female, and strattera does WONDERS for me too.
Makes me feel energized! 100x better than when I used to not be medicated for ADHD. I think I'm a fast metabolizer though and kind of feel like a freak...I have to take over 100 mg and I weigh about 130 lbs(almost 6 feet tall.)

Can u both relate at all to a high dosage??


Well I am actually back on Strattera now, but much has changed since the last time I posted about Strattera. So first a bit about that and then I will answer your questions. It turned out that I do have bipolar (type I), in addition to the ADHD, and so I can say with some certainty that I was hypomanic when I was first taking Strattera. So I'm not sure how much of my increased energy and speediness was due to Strattera as opposed to, say, the bipolar, the tons of coffee I was drinking, or the tons of stress I was experiencing at the time. (Yes, a great combination:cool:). Strattera was definitely at least somewhat responsible, but I can't give it ALL of the "credit".

The other thing that may have been influencing my reaction to Strattera is that I was also taking fluoxetine (generic Prozac), which is known to amplify the effects of Strattera.





Oh and also, seperately:

Does anyone take strattera and also another ADHD med with it during certain points of the day?? Ive heard thats also an option.



Anyway, now to your questions.:rolleyes:

Here's what I am currently taking:--Strattera 40 mg (I didn't go back to the 80 mg dose I used to be on, since I'm now also taking Focalin, and the two meds hadn't worked as well together at that higher dose),
--Focalin (brand-name, NOT the generic which is crap!) 7.5 mg 4x/day,
--Fluoxetine 10 mg,
--Lithium 600 mg
I am very happy with the Strattera/stimulant combo, to sort of answer your second question. My doctor didn't want me to be on Strattera AND a stimulant unless it was absolutely necessary, but after extended trials of each on their own, the results just weren't as good as both together.

Like you, I also have a very fast metabolism. So if you end up adding an instant-release stimulant you will probably have to take several doses throughout the day. I tried XR stimulants but ha, my metabolism is so fast that I STILL had to take them a couple times a day, plus they didn't give me as much control.

I'm so envious of you guys getting MORE energy on Strattera. I get nearly the EXACT opposite effects of Strattera putting me to sleep, etc. See my other thread if you want details. :( At this point I'm considering next month switching to a stimulant which would be the exact opposite. I'd say being wired is better than being wired and wanting to sleep/fatigued the first few hours after taking it.

Like you, I also have a very fast metabolism. So if you end up adding an instant-release stimulant you will probably have to take several doses throughout the day. I tried XR stimulants but ha, my metabolism is so fast that I STILL had to take them a couple times a day, plus they didn't give me as much control.

Haha yes actually ive decided to stay on Strattera 100 mg, and
tonight im going to email my psychiatrist to see if I could just add an extra stimulant like Ritalin or Adderall(they seem to give me pretty similar results..) for short periods of the day when i need to study/or stick through a 3 hour lecture. Blah.

I hope your meds are working for you though!!
Does this mixture seem to be helping you at the moment/give you more focus during day??

Oh and Willz, im sure youll find something good!! Dont worry.
It just takes some time.
How long have you been on Straterra now?
I had to give it a couple of months before i decided to stick with it.
It made me feel very sick/tired at first...but i gave it some time, and am feeling better.
There are also many other choices out there for you as well...stimulants might be the trick for you!

Haha yes actually ive decided to stay on Strattera 100 mg, and
tonight im going to email my psychiatrist to see if I could just add an extra stimulant like Ritalin or Adderall(they seem to give me pretty similar results..) for short periods of the day when i need to study/or stick through a 3 hour lecture. Blah.

I hope your meds are working for you though!!
Does this mixture seem to be helping you at the moment/give you more focus during day??

Yes, that combo does help me to focus and think much, much better. One thing I am able to do now that I couldn't before is to think structurally. For example, I think that I might actually be able to, drumroll please...WRITE AN OUTLINE!...if I needed to write an important paper. That is something I was never, ever in my life able to do (always wrote them after I'd figured out the paper, sentence by sentence...) Since I haven't had to write anything major in a while, I haven't gotten to "officially" test this new "ability", but I just know that I could now. I've found that certain things that always eluded me in the past just make more sense now.

And I have realized that my memory is not as horrible as I thought it was, since apparently a big problem was just not paying attention enough for the info to register in the first place.

Also, I now have the ability to pay attention to totally boring things that I don't even want to pay attention to!:rolleyes: For example, someone was giving a pretty dry speech at work recently and I realized in amazement, afterwards, that I had listened to the whole thing and had not spaced out or daydreamed at all!

And sometimes I am able to actually be in touch with my senses and really be aware of everything around me, which is one of those sorts of occasions so rare and special that it's worth marking on a calendar with a big star by it. Still working on having that happen more often.

Etc.

BUT (and this is a big one) things are only this way for me when I am not having bipolar issues. That part of the equation is still not really totally sorted out. When the bipolar's firing, it completely wipes out all the improvement in ADD symptoms (since attention issues are a big problem with bipolar episodes). I still think that the ADD meds help my focus even in those situations, because it used to be much, much worse.

Oh, the other thing, actually, is that these meds (Strattera plus Focalin) seem to do a good job of counteracting the mental dulling and lethargy that is known to occur with lithium. I realize that you guys don't have bipolar but I'm just mentioning that because for me, that is acting as a sort of additional "proof" that the ADD meds work really well. Not only do they counteract my inherent attention problems, but they also counteract the effects of a med that causes additional attention problems. So that is good!

Anyway I hope that your doctor is amenable to adding a stimulant to your Strattera (sometimes they get weird about it, depending on the doctor) and I hope that you are able to find a good combo soon!

I'm so envious of you guys getting MORE energy on Strattera. I get nearly the EXACT opposite effects of Strattera putting me to sleep, etc. See my other thread if you want details. :( At this point I'm considering next month switching to a stimulant which would be the exact opposite. I'd say being wired is better than being wired and wanting to sleep/fatigued the first few hours after taking it.

Yeah, I agree with you on that. That's actually why I stopped taking Focalin XR--the being wired but then sleepy. That med had a really weird effect where it peaks once, then dips back, then peaks again. During that "dip" period, which lasted a couple hours for me in the early afternoon, I was useless and HAD to take a nap. Very annoying. So if Strattera is at all like that for you I can see why you'd want to quit.

:( I slept another 5 hours today (I'm in college, have class days and off days to study, yes nice schedule isn't it) and sometimes feel I can't take this ANYMORE!!! UGH, GODDAMNED FATIGUE from Strattera. I will try taking it at night starting tonight after a while.

Wow - I just started my 6yo son with ADD/IA on this medication and he's on his third day. He told me how in gym class he ran 10 laps and didn't get tired - this was new for him and he was very proud of this.

Then, last night at his basketball game he was actually hyper (and he's only supposed to be ADD/IA) - I mean, windmilling his arms, shaking his head, bending up and down at the waist any time the whistle was blown or quarter was up and there was a space of time to act that way. That was new and different for him - usually he's just scatter-brained, spacey. And yet, he played BETTER than ever - and when it was time to calm down, he did - just like that!???

When I needed him to be focused for homework the past few days - he DID! It seems like he has developed hyperactivity that he can turn on and off at will??? I am baffled by it. The only "bad" thing about this was how the other boys were looking at him when he was windmilling both arms at the same time and shaking his head. He was always slightly fidgety at the most - but this was like, whoa - something is going on here. I couldn't blame the other kids for looking at him funny! I was amazed that his rotator cuffs (?) could handle that!

Well, it's only his third day. He also had a short bout of nausea and bellyache the first day but never since. So I'm sticking with this to see how it goes. Glad to know others are experiencing what he is.
Debbie

I should add that his focus does seem better overall since starting Strattera 3 days ago - I couldn't believe it because I didn't think it would work for a few weeks! So overall I'm happy with Strattera so far for him.
Debbie

yes - at least i think so. beginning yesterday morning i started to have a significant amount of energy, confidence, and ability to cocentrate. i've gotten more done in the last 48 hours than i did the week before. i am/was afraid i might be experiencing a manic episode of bipolar (since that has been a possible diagnose) although i don't ever remember feeling quite like this. i was not expecting to actually 'notice' the straterra. i'm still not sure its the straterra. it's been 2.5 weeks since i started. i'm also taking fluoxetine and neurontin (have been for a year). anyway, i spoke to my doc this afternoon and she said to just try and chill out for a few days and keep in touch. although, she said it is possible i've just never felt this alert before. i was so used to such a muted way of life that seemed normal to me. could this be true? well... it could be. i guess time will tell. btw - i don't look at this as a negative thing if it turns out to be the straterra. i'm enjoying life a lot more so far... off to take a nap now since all the energy and working has finally caught up with me i think. which is good, since a sign of mania would be needing less sleep. my typical sleep pattern is in bed by 9 and up at 5:30. i love that schedule. i will now see if i can continue with that schedule and still feel this way. if that's the case, i will be so incredibly relieved. we'll see. i'll report back in a week or so. sooner if anything significant happens between now and then - but i don't think anything will. ;-)

this was helpful for me to write about. i hope that it helps you too. cheers.

ha... i'm reporting back the next day. today has a similar feeling to yesterday but i'm feeling a little calmer. i do want to let everyone know i smoke pot. i have for some time. i'm sure it is/was self medicating. but, i can't believe it, this morning i actually considered what life would be like without any pot and it didn't look that bad. this is truely a first. don't get me wrong, i'm not yet convinced pot is wrong in a black and white way. i think it just depends on the person and how it affects them. just like every other drug. i'll save that for another post. anyway, hope this helps anyone in a similar situation to me.

a little update. this is interesting. i feel like last night i may have rationalized myself into not smoking today. i really want to see what's up with this medicine without any interference from a drug that still seems to have the jury out in some peoples minds. i'm not smoking at all today. i'll consider tomorrow when today is done. so, overall still feeling pretty good, still that little fear that the positive affects i'm feeling will wear off. i still have more energy and more confidence, but am less jittery. hope this helps someone out there also

whats the major difference between cymbalta and strattera ? They seem very similar

probably best to just ask your doc... i'm not really sure as they both "seem" to act on the same receptors/chemicals. my experience on straterra has been way better than my experience on cymbalta - BUT, it's not an apples to apples comparison since i was drinking heavily when i tried cymbalta and haven't had a drop while on straterra.

I have just recently (about 1 month ago) been diagnosed with ADHD. Strattera was an ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE for me. Others around me did notice an increase in comprehension and concentration, however it was subtle (to me). I experienced every side-effect possible and felt extreme anxiety/depression. And I have never been one to feel depressed, and think it was due to feeling like I was a complete zombie. My biggest problems on the med were fatigue and blurry vision.

Just received my new RX of Focalin XR. Yay, hope this works for me. I start it tomorrow.

whats the major difference between cymbalta and strattera ? They seem very similar


I have the same question:confused:

Norepinephrine makes me aroused in things... like Im interested in things and they dont bother/anxietise me. My trains of though, other humans, activities I'm engaging in or about to, etc.

Me, too

I just stopped taking Strattera because of the side effects i was having. It literally felt like i took 10 tylenol PMS.....tingly all over, wobbly legs, foggy....NO motivation or energy. I missed the gym 3 times in a row....after work i would lay in bed and sleep.....throwing up in the middle of the night.....so my Doc took me off. Next up is Adderol.....Strattera took away my energy