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Re: Desipramine vs Strattera for adult ADD. » SLS

Posted by psychobot5000 on January 23, 2009, at 22:23:52

In reply to Re: Desipramine vs Strattera for adult ADD., posted by SLS on January 22, 2009, at 6:37:11

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Thought my own experience might be slightly useful, at least in confirming this idea of differences among NRIs. I haven't taken Desipramine, but I've taken nortriptyline, Strattera, and Reboxetine, and they all felt very different. Nortrip felt like...a TCA, for the most part. Reboxetine made me unpleasantly wired, and did not noticeably help with attention. Strattera gave me very mild euphoria (or relative euphoria) combined with sleepiness during the first two days' treatment. Without that sleepiness, it might have been helpful for inattention. But in any case, the positive effects (the mild euphoria, mostly) disappeared completely within three days, leaving only the bizarre sedation. It was an odd experience.

Sorry I can't comment directly on Desipramine. But those NRIs felt qualitatively very different from each other.


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