Posted by waterfall on March 17, 2012, at 14:08:20
Hi all,
I've been using Ritalin for a couple of months to help me focus at work. I'm taking 20 mgs. most days.I was doing a taper/increase involving Risperdal, Sapphris and Zyprexa to treat bi-polar disorder and for about half a year I was feeling very doped up as we tried one drug and then another. Now I'm feeling irritable and I can't figure out why or if I should be concerned.
Is irritability a common feature of Ritalin? Should I worry that it's going to make me manic if it's making me irritable? Is it OK to skip it on the weekends to try to avoid irritability? Or is feeling irritable the result of not having the Risperdal/Sapphris/Zyprexa in the right amounts and not associated with the Ritalin at all?
I'm also having trouble filling my prescriptions. I'm in the mid-west and this week 4 pharmacies turned me away for lack of a supply of the drug. Is this a nation-wide problem and if so what's being done to address it?
I also take Depakote but alone it hasn't been enough to treat the bi-polar disorder. I also take 100 of Zoloft and 1.5 mgs of Klonopin daily.
Thanks for any info. I know this post is a rather involved.
waterfall
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