Posted by henryO on June 30, 2002, at 3:41:52
In reply to Re: Ritalin user, posted by Chrissy on June 29, 2002, at 11:42:52
I hear alot of myself in your message Chrissy. I spent years on Prozac. Everybodyelse said I was better on it, but I felt barely barely better. I was just dragging myself around. For me Ritalin made an instant as well as a huge difference. I love Ritalin, it has changed my life. But it "pooped out" in a few months. So I quit the Ritalin and was back to being miserable. Then after much trial and error we, my doctor and I, tried an augmentation med called Visken (or Pindolol). It helped. I felt better. It removed the pain. I was up to a 5 on a scale of 1 to 10. Then I asked to be put back on Ritalin and changed over to Concerta wich is a sustained release mechanism for Ritalin. It is smoother, has less peaks and valleys than the straight quick release tablets. So after some months I was talking to my doctor and I said "if this is as good as I am ever going to feel, I'll take it. I'm not in pain, thank you." then I added "after alI, I don't expect euphoria" he surprised me by saying something to the effect that "you're wrong, you are supposed to feel really good" So we added a fourth med to the cocktail another augmentation med called Resperidal. I take less of it now than when I first began it, but I feel now like I think I am supposed to feel. I am telling you all this because it does make one want to cry when you look at all the time and pain we struggled with to get better. Don't quit trying if you hit some setbacks. There were a lot of other meds I tried along the way that I didn't like. I left them out of my long story. I used to feel a bit concerned about the number of meds I take. But I have come to see it as a packaging issue. My combo works for me. I sometimes wonder what school would have been like for me if I had the meds then that I have now. Good luck.
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