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The family doctor put me on 4 x40mg Strattera a day (two pills, one time a day) and it’s been 3 weeks now.
Side effects- I take the pills just before bed time as they make me want to SLEEP ALL THE TIME.
Dry mouth in the AM – when I wake I’ve got to have a glass of something cold and wet but then I crave flavored drinks anyway – this just makes is a MUST in the AM more than a craving. I can’t do anything else until I’ve taken care of the “dry mouth”.
I now tend to sleep my weekends away. I’ve not been out to my shop for a week, I get little done.
If I sit, I sleep, doesn’t matter what time of day or how long I slept at night. I get up say at 7 am Saturday, and by 9 or 10, it’s down for a nap. Then another in the afternoon.
I don’t completely blame the Stratterra drug as in a normal day any excuse and I’d take a nap, but now it’s hard, almost impossible to fight it. We took a trip for work yesterday am – 90 minutes from work to the destination. My co-worker was driving. We chatted most of the way but it was all I could do to keep from falling asleep. I don’t drive much any more due to the risks of falling asleep.
All this week I’ve nearly fallen asleep at my desk each afternoon (and hope the boss doesn’t walk in to see my head nodding….)
The kicker – I’m only 54, but doc says he will NOT under any circumstances prescribe any “uppers” for a person my age due to possible heart health risks. He says the risks of those drugs outweigh any benefits for a person “in my 5th decade” as he calls it.
I’d like to smack him and say then YOU live with this crap and then tell me – what’s worth the risks?
When I nearly kill myself in car accidents every few years, nearly cut my fingers off in a table saw, fall from ladders, have trouble keeping jobs – you name it – what’s the risks?
My heart is strong as a horse, low blood pressure, as a doc years ago said my “heart just idles along”
I’d rather have a shorter happier life than a long miserable one full of failures.
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