Hangover feeling?

[Tara]

I have heard several people who take Strattera talk about waking up with a hangover like feeling since they began taking Strattera.

Have any of you had a similar experience?

[Wheel1975]

Yes. the primary effect of Strattera on me is debiitating, which other people equate with "nicer to get along with" and "easier to get along with." I feel drunk, hung over, clumsy, stupid... when i first started on the drug I could not brain storm: my mind was so "focused" and "conventional" that i couldn't have a stray thought. I was just blank and quiet.

It was silent inside my head and i felt like I was going through severe sensory deprivation/isolation.

I am "tired" all the time I'm suppposed to be awake, and can't sleep when I am supposed to sleep. I would say that this drug works by being debilitating.

Granted, I don't rage as much, hell, I can hardly think a thought or hold an opinion! That i am "pacified" is clear. That it helps a single ADHD "problem" is unclear.

I can't do "paperwork" or "taxes" or "meaningless stuff" any better at all. In fact, instead of being able to 'force" myself into those things, I simply walk out of the room.

I am an extreem Stop sign respector. In the middle of the Smokie mountains at 2 AM I stop at a stop sign in the woods. If anything were within 100 yards you could tell.

On Strattera I ran 12 stop signs in the first few days. If no one was around (no cars, no kids, no animals) I simply didn't stop. It was shocking to me. I had to really fight with myself to respect "parking lot stop signs" (shich aren't legal signs!) when no one was near the intersection. It pushed things to some kind of a reality equation, with no rule following B.S. (ballogna stuff)

It is a real moral dellima... oh and it hasn't improved my spelling, or changed what i feel is right or wrong (with the behavioral exceptions above not withstanding). I just can't muster an opposition to "wrongs."

Hope that helps! - David

[aforceforgood]

Wheel, maybe you need your dosage reduced slightly?