Experiences with Ritalin

After being diagnosed with ADD started on Ritalin. It certainly helps in the morning with getting myself together and I think I'm less quick to anger with my concentration problems, although I don't actually think my concentration has improved at all. 5 or 6 other problems that go alongside ADD are not treated by Ritalin. So I have also got a high heart rate (120/130 at rest). Physically a real...
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Ritalin really seemed to only work for me for a short time before I started getting the rebounds. That's why I went on the internet at work every morning at around 10am, because I couldn't concentrate. I also had virtually no appetite. Switching to concerta has meant that I am now better able to function.
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Ritalin worked really well for me for 15 years. More recently though it stopped calming me down as much as I had been used to. So I had to switch over to Straterra. Straterra feels stronger and on Ritalin I still felt like me but Straterra works better to maintain the calmness in my head. I used Ritalin on a really low dose. Sometimes only 2.5 mg at a time. With more I quickly noticed the side ...
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I am never taking Ritalin again. I took it for 6 weeks (for idiopathic hypersomnia) and I was a totally different person. I was depressed, was irritated by anything and everything. I questioned my relationship, my work. The only advantage was that I wasn't so tired any more. After speaking to the neurologist, switched to modafinil. Hopefully there won't be any side effects on this.
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For the pressure in my head and my impulsive behaviour, talking a lot, but often difficult to get to the core of the matter, easily distracted. The horrid feeling that I am supposed to be doing something. Almost paranoid. Had loads of therapies, lots of anxiety, sometimes for nothing. Feel worthless, on my last visit to the addiction clinic I was too often disappointed. I am pretty convinced by...
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I have to take Ritalin because otherwise I can't learn. I've got ADD and I've been taking concentration pills since I was 10. I've tried all sorts of different concentration pills and I'm now on the look out for another one again. There are too many negative side effects (difficulty falling asleep, eating nothing all day, emotional, angry, unfriendly, no time for feelings, to tired to speak at ...
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