Posted by med_empowered on January 31, 2005, at 0:01:28
In reply to Re: STIMULANT OPTIONS, please! » med_empowered, posted by CareBear04 on January 30, 2005, at 19:02:28
Hey! Sorry about your stimulant woes, and thanks for trying to help me with mine. I read over some of your posts, so I'll just respond to what I remembered to respond to...sorry if its a little incoherent. With the appetite thing, I had the same experience...it basically means you're developing tolerance. Adderall was once a diet drug (Obestat, I think...Andy Warhol loved the stuff), so it makes sense; no stimulant-type diet drug works indefinitely. Sorry you can't use tricyclics b/c of heart problems...they're problematic, but effective for many. I tried to find a heart-friendly tricyclic-like drug, and the closest thing I found is cymbalta, which hits up neurepinephrine and serotonin in a balanced fashion, kind of like Tofranil. It raises blood pressure a bit, but isn't necessarily contraindicated in those with heart problems. Effexor, too, comes to mind, but it causes way too much heart weirdness, jumps in cholesterol, and possibly tardive dyskinesia. Besides, dosing with cymbalta is way easier. You also mentioned adderall holidays...mine are pretty easy...I take an occasional weekend or more off. At first I eat more, sleep a little more (nice if I'm not sleeping well) and feel a little grouchy, but I settle into it. A doc actually RX'd Didrex, a schedule III diet drug, for extended holidays; its amphetamine-like, but doesn't pack the adderall punch..basically it prevents full-blown amphetamine withdrawal symptoms from developing.
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