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Re: Adderall XR 30mg making me impatient and grouchy

Re: Adderall XR 30mg making me impatient and grouchy2012-08-07T13:13:51+00:00

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I have the inattentive ADD issue too. I am a PRO at PROcrastinating! Too bad we can’t make money at this PROfession…

Anyway, my wife and her mom and our daughter (hmmm, all women…) said I was more impatient and a bit more grouchy than before Adderall. I asked my psychiatrist if there might be a different med that would not reinforce my negatives but would still work on my inattentive ADD. He told me to, and I quote, “Just stop. That is a bad question. The first axiom of medicine is to do no harm. You have been successfully dealing with this for years, so let’s do something different. Let’s take you off any meds for 60 days and ask your wife to take notes on your behavior. Have her start in two weeks.” Well yes, I have been “dealing” with it for a long time but I am getting tired of the effort to corral my “squirrel on ritalin” brain, with a side dish of really well practiced procrastination and wanted some modern medicine help. In my world there are no bad questions, only crummy answers. Has anyone else found that one stimulant made you grouchy while another did the job without the negatives? Stratterra worked for a few months but aside from the physical (restricted urine flow, dry mouth) I could not detect any help for the ADD. Anybody have any better results by changing from Adderall to a different stimulant?

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