Posted by BLPBart on March 23, 2002, at 13:44:44
In reply to Re: I forgot to mention my main question: WHICH one, posted by michael on March 22, 2002, at 16:59:59
> > might be better for me - the Dexadrine or Adderall?
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> My personal experience was that addrall made me feel "uncomfortable" or "icky" (how's that for objective "clinical" terminology/feedback...) and more withdrawn -- just wanted to be left alone, didn't want to deal w/or interact w/anyone until it wore off.
>> Ritalin & Dex made me feel more focused, more normal in respect to energy levels and actually doing anything - even just paying bills, cleaning up, laundry, etc., which just didn't get done w/o waiting until they HAD to be done.
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> I'd recommend trying the dex. I find that it last a little longer than ritalin (maybe an hour) and that it has slightly (not a lot, but something) more of an "energy" component than ritalin does. Of course, others might tell you they've had the opposite experience...YMMV. Good luck.I just had to comment because you sound so much like me. I just recently started dexedrine SR for potential ADD (I say potential because my understanding is there is really no test to verify it, it's kind of subjective). Anyway, I have definitely found that now I can get up and do things that I need to do. Usually, I'm like you in that everything gets done at the least minute only when it has to. Bills were always late, projects always being done the night before they're due and would often find myself just wandering around my house, looking at all the things I wanted or should have been doing, but instead just not being motivated to start any of them. It drove me crazy, I would literally wander from room to room and just kind of putter around.
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