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Posted by mot on July 12, 2004, at 16:47:06
I am a 51 year old male who has been taking strattera since July of 2003. I started out taking 20MG of strattera once a day along with 80MG of prozac. Now I take 120 MG of strattera and 40MG of prozac. My life has completely changed for the better. Untill I started taking strattera, I always thoght it was normal to cruise mentally at 300hundred mile an hour zaping from one thought to another like eating potato chips. I never could understand why people couldn't stay with me as I would be talking on one subject and change to another in mid sentence.
It was fun and normal to multi task continualy, especially while driving. Now come on, fess up, just how many of you reading this would drive 80 to 85 mile an hour down the expressway, while eating, talking on the phone,writing a message and listening to the radio - all at the same time? How about never feeling relaxed? Always feeling butterflies in you stomach? Ever feel like screaming at the top of your lungs just to release some pent up anxiety? I lived this way for 50 years. Now life is so much better. I would never want to go back to be the other person that I was. THANK GOD for these new medicines.
Posted by Bill LL on July 13, 2004, at 8:50:13
In reply to Strattera and the middle age male, posted by mot on July 12, 2004, at 16:47:06
I'm also 51 but I just started taking Strattera 2 months a go. I already take 120 mg per day! What took you so long to get to 120?)
I also take 30 mg Lexapro. I also really like Strattera.
Posted by mot on July 13, 2004, at 10:42:23
In reply to Re: Strattera and the middle age male, posted by Bill LL on July 13, 2004, at 8:50:13
>When I started taking strattera it was very new in my area. The drug reps thought that 40 to 60 MG was alot. Now they have found that our systems need more the longer we take it. I don't know about you but my condition has been a classic ADHD story. I lived in the hallway in grade school since there wasn't any diagnoses of ADHD in the 50s & 60s. Always peged as a trouble maker since I couldn't sit still or keep my mouth shut. Even in 1986 I was diagnosed wrong. The medical community didn't believe that adults could have ADHD so I was misdiagnosed as being bi-polar.
Posted by Torque on July 13, 2004, at 22:15:00
In reply to Re: Strattera and the middle age male » Bill LL, posted by mot on July 13, 2004, at 10:42:23
I am an approaching middle aged male. Does Straterra make either of you tired or sleepy? How are you dividing doses?
Posted by Bill LL on July 14, 2004, at 9:11:53
In reply to Re: Strattera and the middle age male, posted by Torque on July 13, 2004, at 22:15:00
That's correct. Until recent years, docs thought that Ritalin would only work on children.
Strattera does not make me tired. But alot of people who have ADD symptoms are also tired, depressed, have anxiety and OCD. These things often all go together.
Some people have good results with taking Strattera along with Provigil (Modafinil). Provigil is for people who have excessive tiredness.
I take 60 mg Strattera in the morning and another 60 around 4 pm.
Posted by mot on July 14, 2004, at 18:54:11
In reply to Re: Strattera and the middle age male, posted by Bill LL on July 14, 2004, at 9:11:53
Strattera does not make me tired. I take it all in the morning with breakfast. If it makes you tired it could be one of those temporary side effects.
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