I’m one of the lucky few for whom a non-stimulant works.
Strattera paired with a low dose of Wellbutrin because my psychiatrist knows there’s risk of interaction if I take too much Wellbutrin.
It’s incredible having agency again, agency that doesn’t fade every few hours because ritalin would wear off and I forget to take the next dose because it wore off.
Also stimulants can make the body form a tolerance that subverts their effects eventually x_x but honestly I’m grateful to see ANYTHING working for ANYONE.
The reason I didn’t seek treatment for most of my life was because I didn’t want to believe that ADHD was real. I wanted to believe it was nothing more than an imaginary first-world-problem “affluenza” that only afflicted people who were too fortunate to have REAL worries challenging their survival. I wanted to believe that I could just LEARN to ‘be better’.
HAHA NOPE, that shit wrecked me for the prime years of my life.
Totally. At least Strattera is a reuptake inhibitor, so it’s moving in the same direction as a stimulant with less of the negatives. I do not recommend taking an agonist, I don’t know what my psychiatrist was thinking.
I’ve been trying methylphenidate and it’s really nice, it doesn’t have as much dependency or falloff risks as something like Adderall.
I’m one of the lucky few for whom a non-stimulant works.
Strattera paired with a low dose of Wellbutrin because my psychiatrist knows there’s risk of interaction if I take too much Wellbutrin.
It’s incredible having agency again, agency that doesn’t fade every few hours because ritalin would wear off and I forget to take the next dose because it wore off.
Also stimulants can make the body form a tolerance that subverts their effects eventually x_x but honestly I’m grateful to see ANYTHING working for ANYONE.
The reason I didn’t seek treatment for most of my life was because I didn’t want to believe that ADHD was real. I wanted to believe it was nothing more than an imaginary first-world-problem “affluenza” that only afflicted people who were too fortunate to have REAL worries challenging their survival. I wanted to believe that I could just LEARN to ‘be better’.
HAHA NOPE, that shit wrecked me for the prime years of my life.
Totally. At least Strattera is a reuptake inhibitor, so it’s moving in the same direction as a stimulant with less of the negatives. I do not recommend taking an agonist, I don’t know what my psychiatrist was thinking.
I’ve been trying methylphenidate and it’s really nice, it doesn’t have as much dependency or falloff risks as something like Adderall.
Maybe guanfacine is just particularly unhelpful.