Diagnosed by a friend who told me in a moment of honesty that it is "exhausting" keeping up with my "channel flashes", I took to Google. Oh how mis-informed the world is! "ADHD is just fancy name for hyper kids" and "Doctors are so quick to drug kids because the parents can't handle them" OMG!! Are you kidding me?!

I am 30 years old, and when I read the symptoms for Adult ADD I cried like a baby. It was my life on paper. Then I read the...

Summary:
Jan-July 20: Effexor XR (brand name, not generic) (been taking since 2002) and Vyvanse XR (since January): worked wonderfully!

July 20- Sept. 16: Effexor XR GENERIC form and Vyvanse XR: still helpful but not nearly as good as before.

Sept. 16- Sept. 23: Effexor XR GENERIC form and Adderall: feels like i'm on a sedative. sleepy.

At this point, I did some reading and found that when the generic form of Effexor came out, people who reported online...

Well, I think it finally hit home to my shrink when I called him last week and told him my depression was eerily similar to how it is portrayed on the Cymbalta commercials and I can't stand living with my head full of clutter...

Two things happened; he changed my appointment from mid-February and when my son came home from his own appointment this week, he gave my son a script for me to increase my Vyvanse from 50mg to 70mg...

Let's see how we do on this dose!
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