Posted by Ritch on April 10, 2005, at 14:47:42
In reply to Scared to take my first dose of Concerta!!!!, posted by theo on April 10, 2005, at 11:32:03
> I've had my scrip filled for a week now and am full of anxiety about taking my first dose of Concerta!! I keep thinking, maybe Adderall XR would be better, but I know I won't know until I try.
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> What is a fair trial for a stimulant, a few days? If I have some initial anxiety with my first dose, I don't want to jump the gun and scrap it, so would a few days be enough for your body to adjust to a stimulant?
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> I have a bad habit of taken one med (Concerta) and wondering if another med (Adderall XR) would be giving me better results. It's so hard for me to stick with a med because I'm always thinking "maybe something else would be better." By the way, what would this symptom fall under, it's not only with meds, but relationships and jobs also.
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>It's a perfectionistic trait of OCPD (obsessive-compulsive personality disorder). I've got that to some degree as well. As far as the stims go, they are actually a lot easier to make determinations about what's *best* than most other medications. They tend to work immediately, if you get any sides from them, they tend *not* to go away, and probably more importantly you will find out whether the methylphenidate family works for you or not. People that need stims for ADHD tend to respond a lot better to one kind of another (amps or mph). Concerta's the smoothest form of methylphenidate, so you aren't wasting time *not* liking the potential crashing that would go along with the other versions. In short it should either work really well for you or not, and you will find out relatively quickly whether it does or not. And it it doesn't.. then you can try dexedrine. If that clearly works much better and you don't like it's crashing tendencies then you can go to Adderall..
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