Posted by Caslon540 on February 16, 2005, at 3:43:51
In reply to Re: HELP! Adderall w Geodon用roblem, posted by ixus on February 16, 2005, at 2:28:32
I tried Concerta too. It did nothing to me, period. Here are the drugs I've tried (some were eventually combined) and their effects: Prozac (increased anxiety), Wellbutrin (severe "body high," felt like I was on recreational drugs all the time), Zoloft (total zombie), Strattera (helped with concentration but not hypersomnia), Provigil (worked for only 2 weeks), Concerta (see above), Ritalin (worked, then tolerance), Abilify (dr. switched to Geodon before I noticed anything), Seroquel (horrible for hypersomnia), Zyprexa (threw away after one dose because it was the worst experience of my life).
My doctor has suggested Vivactil and MAOIs, but I'm a lot more scared of anti-depressants now than stimulants, and feel that to remove stims and change ADs at this moment could be disastrous, given my history with ADs versus stims, and that if I lose much more time right now, the future I've been struggling to build here for the past 5 years will totally collapse and I'll have to move back in with my parents 500 miles away. On top of that, my doctor even said that anti-depressants won't be as effective as stimulants for fatigue and hypersomnia. It'd be nice if they were, so that I wouldn't have to deal with pharmacists questioning the prescriptions my doctor gives me every month (that feature security images in heat-sensitive ink that I could never reproduce, no less) like I'm some kind of criminal. If I wanted to get high every day, I would've stayed on Wellbutrin! I don't know why it had that effect on me, but ugh, that was frightening.
> I tried Concerta, it has done nothing to me but increased hypersomnia + anxiety when stopped working (10-12 hours after intake). Try to solve your problems with antidepressants rather than stimulants.
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