Posted by Andy Drinkard on March 13, 2003, at 21:42:06
In reply to Re: Effexor Withdrawal , posted by maliak on March 11, 2003, at 11:42:14
Howdy...I'm very sorry to hear about your son's struggles. I'm a 19 year old college freshman with ADD, and for a year I took Adderall. In all honesty, your son's story seems quite different from mine, but there is one thing I wanted to offer:
One of Adderall's side effects was a fairly severe period of nasty irritability at the end of each 6 hour dose. Ultimately, I forced myself to give it up for that mainly that reason (sleep deprivation was another problem).
Since then, I've been prescribed Concerta, and it is simply one of the best things that has ever happened to me. If you want to no more about all this, I explained the whole story in new thread called "CONCERTA makes ADDERALL look sorry as an ADD med.".
I'm actually just stopped Effexor (the reason I'm here is for information on why this withdrawal is so awful). I didn't notice any particular help with concentration, but that may just be because Concerta's effect overshadowed it.
Good luck,
Bad Andy
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