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ADD meds/motivation/concentration

Posted by Garnet71 on March 16, 2009, at 18:26:51

I have anxiety and ADD-inattentive type. It take Buspar 15 mg x 2 and Xanax .25 mg at night. I've had no anxiety symptoms for over a month and don't feel depressed or sad.

So I quit Ritalin 20 mg x 2 a few days ago and started taking Wellbutrin SR 150 mg x 1 just 2 days ago. The Wellbutrin seems to have barely started to work (I know, I know its only been 3 days), but I'm feeling more irritable and unmotivated than before I took the Wellbutrin w/o the Ritalin.

I have about 10 doses of Ritalin left over from the last script so I called my PDocRN to ask her if it was okay if I tried them with the Wellbutrin till it kicks in (if it even does). She said it would be ok as long as my heart doesn't race or anything like that.

I'm so overwhelmend and behind in my deadline and can't seem to get stuff done-it seems like there's holes in time each day--like 8 hours of my day just disappear and I think-where did the time go? So I took a Ritalin today--again, it only lasted about 2 hrs., now my head feels fuzzy again and I feel yucky like before I took it.

So I was a reading part of an ADD/ADHD a book on Google books which said one type of ADD med is not dependent upon the brain's dopamine availability as much as the other. One ADD med facilitates an increased production of dopamine and blocks uptake while the other just more or less blocks it/keeps it where its needed but doesn't aid production.

I feel like my brain doesn't make enough dopamine or something. I don't know how else to explain it. Zoloft/Prozac seemed to make my dopamine levels hit bottom, though I quit taking them a couple of months ago after feeling miserable because they have been prescribed to me off/on for 3 years. They made me depressed and miserable and unmotivated, alhtough they worked for the anxiety--all of them did. Any advice on the dopamine issue or ADD meds?

It seems I should give Adderall a try, but PDocRN didn't mention it and I don't know if its okay to ask for a med like that. Is it really much different from Ritalin? What if I was prescribed a small dose--like a third of what people start at just to see? Has anyone tried both?

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http://books.google.com/books?id=lLHWuSekLwUC&dq=thomas+brown+attention+deficit+disorder&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=-du-SaKBBIOItgf1l_z3Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA253,M1

 

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