I got diagnosed with ADHD as an adult. And my doc first recommended atomoxetine saying it’s safer than stimulants.
But then some things went wrong in my personal life and I went back to doc, he ran some cardiac tests and finally gave me methylphenidate. Been taking it for 4 days now but I am not sure if anything is happening.
I’ve read it changing lives of other ADHDers and I had a lot of hope especially on the stimulant. But so far I don’t feel it doing anything. I am even taking atomoxetine too as the doc said.
What should I do?
One made me feel sick and the other I skipped over. I’m taking a expensive medication right now call qelbree which is similar to atomoxetine. I’ve had good results to it but had a hard time getting it approved by insurance.
The atomoxetine? I get sick if I don’t take it with food. Best results for me are a big meal and taking it in the middle of the meal.
I wanted to try qelbree but my doctor said it would be very difficult to get approved and it’s really expensive.
I got sick so bad I went from 220 pounds to 170 in five weeks. I had to look deep in to the drug records to find it. There was a very rare side effect that was below the threshold for reporting. It only occured in two people inthe trails. I finally found a forum where just two other people had this side effect. By that time I was on week four convinced I was going to die. They said their symptoms started to go away after the sixth week. Sure enough I finally could stand without throwing up and had a appetite in the sixth week of that hell.
The symptoms were persistent 24/7 nausea accompanied by dry heaves when I stood up.
No apetite at all. I had to force food down and if it was more complex than a cracker it came straight back up. This went on for six weeks. I went ten years before I nerved up enough to try another non stimulant ADHD med.