Posted by winter on June 20, 2002, at 14:31:44
In reply to Re: Dex Spansules v. regular, posted by DiscoPuppy on June 20, 2002, at 11:12:21
Disco puppy, I am I the midst of figuring that out. I have in order in severity and importance; idiopathic hypersomnia, anxiety with some mild depression(versus depression with anxiety) and possibly ADD or ADHD. The hypersomnia far out weighs the other to. The ADD/ADHD would he higher if I had ever been actually diagnosed.
Last week my doc start me on 10 mg spansules, one in the morn. Did nothing execept I feel all the side effects so yesterday I added a five mg reg, to sort of give me an instant boost and then let the spansule take over for the rest of the day.
Again it didn't help. I felt eveything kinda helping beginng at around 2 lasting till about seven. This is when I took it at 9 in the moring. However I normally wake between 2 and 4 in the afternoon, and get natural energy around 7-8 in the evening. So part of it was my own evergy.
When I took the 10 span and the 5 reg at nine I ended up instantly falling back asleep untill about 11:30 till I was awoken by a sonic boom (literally). Which would have woken mw and kept me up even with out meds. It scared the living day lights out of me!. However I managed to stay awake till 12:30 but I was very sleepy starting at 11, eyes falling etc... But during my peak hours I was more focused and in control than I have ever been, I have no life because I sleep too much so all I do is stay home and when I am awake without meds I just sit around. During my peak though I cleaned my living room and kitchen, which normally would talk me several days mainly out of distraction; " Oh look at this magazine, hey where did this lipstick come from? Lets go read and put on lipstick..." Etc... However when I was just taking the 10 mg spansules woke up at nine my eyes were closing on me at eight in the evening, or I just took it and then kept on sleeping till I had to pee or something. When I was awake all I felt was the side effects.
Today how ever I two 10 mg spansule and two 5 mg regulars. Did not fall back asleep! Main problem with the sleep thing is that my body feels more awake than my head does it takes awhile for my head to catch up. Without meds after I wake it takes several hours for either my hear or my body to get any energy but often my body doesn't get any at all. So far it's only been a couple of hours since I have taken the combo of 10 spansule and 10 reg but I feel good.Right now I know that I am feeling more of the reg than the spansule and later on late this after noon and this evening it will be time for the spansule to reign. Honestly I think I prefer the regulars. When I was discussing everything with my doc I thought the spansules weren't the better option. I had a gut instinct. I still feel that way I think I need a good dose of the regs to get me up right away and a more conservative dose of the spansules to last me throughout the day. I know it is hard for me to be a judge since I am taking both at the same time, but I also think the regs have less severe side effects. I feel better earlier and later I feel worse. I seem to feel more of the bad side effects after the regs have worn off and its just the span. How I understand the release works on the span is the immediatly you get about 1.5 -2.5 mg from the span and then the remaining eight mg(from a 10) are dispersed for the next 10-14 hours. So maybe I feel bad later because I am feeling withdrawl after having 12 mg 10 hours earlier and now I am surviving on remainders, or becuase it is the spansule. I think the spans are best for probably people who can't remeber to take mutilple pills, kids in school, or people who don't want co-workers to see them popping speed midday!
The one thing that works well with both is the appetite supressant part. I get hungry, my stomach is growling but I don't want to eat. I used to eat cause I was bored, it was something extra to do. Now I really don't want to. My blood pressure is fine but I am slightly concerned about my pulse. The concern when taking amphetamines seems to be more towards the side effect of high blood pressure. Which I don't have.(112/72) However I am over weight and very out of shape so my pulse seems high. Im sorry I have a terribly habit of rambling on and giving too mcuh information. I am probably going to get kicked out for messages that are too long!!!
This probably didn't help you at all. Very few people take amphetamines for sleeping disorders. Narcolepsy is not that common and many doctor wouln't prescribe amphetamines for hypersomnia. I can't be of much help telling you about maitinence of ADD/ADHD symptoms since I am not officially diagnosed. Its more of a suspicion.
Winter
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