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Re: Ritalin: how long to notice effects

Posted by BrittPark on February 3, 2003, at 19:29:48

In reply to Re: Ritalin: how long to notice effects, posted by utopizen on February 3, 2003, at 18:55:54

> 20mg is a decent amount of Ritalin. If you don't notice any effect, you'll want to move on to something like Adderall or Dexedrine or, um, since you're taking it for sleep, why not Provigil? Provigil is sort of making the stims less necessary these days for daytime sleepiness.
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> It's preferred that one moves on to a standard dose of a different med than titirate up the dose on a current stim if they're not responding to the normal amount.
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My understanding of psychotropics is that trials tend not to be given a chance and may fail because of inadequate dosage. Perhaps there is an exception in the case of stimulants, but I haven't heard of it. 20mg of ritalin is a reasonable dose for many people. But it is not that uncommon to go to 20mg tid.

Mags, if you can tolerate it, it might be worth upping the dosage, or changing to a controlled release formulation like concerta to decrease end of dose come down. With ritalin you should be able to find out in not much more than a week if it's going to work, and if it doesn't work you can move on to others.

I concur about modafinal, it seems to be effective for your problems in a lot of people and isn't schedule II and therefore less of a pain for you and your doctor. My experience with it was short and sweet. It acted immediately to lift a fairly severe depression, but unfortunately fizzled out after three weeks. Thats a sample size of 1 remember, and its antidepressant properties may be unrelated to its alertness properties.

Best of luck,

Britt


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