Posted by zeugma on January 27, 2005, at 4:17:35
I am being pulled off Ritalin because it is wasting me away to a skeleton and causing terrible jitteriness and anxiety. It also forced me, because of cardiovascular effects, to lower my dosage of nortriptyline to 50 mg/day, and this has worsened the jitteriness immeasurably and brought back my cataplectic synptoms with terrible force (hallucinations, sleep paralysis- last Sunday when I fell asleep I felt like I was literally being mummified- i cannot describe how AWFUL this was-). I don't see how I can take adderall if I experienced extreme anorexia on ritalin, and correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the cardiovascular s/e of amphetamines are greater then those of ritalin. On 100 mg nortriptyline I have no hallucinations and less jitteriness. But the fatigue, the f*king fatigue. eighteen cups of coffee a day. the caffeine does nothing for my ADD, but it keeps me awake. Awake, but not really functional.
-z
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