Great site, great forum, I’m finally embracing the fact that I have to put up a fight and wrestle with this ADHD thing that has been stalking me for a lifetime (53 now, considered moderately successful, had it all and occassionally almost lost it all because was always fighting these emotion loaded demons that no one else would apparently see.. you know the story). Anywho, started on Teva-Methylphenidate 18 mg today. I know, it was supposed to be Concerta but my my prescription did not state “nosub” so our friendly neighbourhood pharmacist took the liberty of substituting for the generic drug, so I have an appt. with my Dr. first thing in the AM to change the prescription to Concerta with explicit “no substitution”. Lesson to the wise I guess, I think it was a bit short sighted to ignore the Janssen-Orthe patent and allow the rather inferiour Novo subsitute here. I think it is a cause worth fighting for. However, even if it was not the genuine Concerta, I noticed a HUGE difference as soon as I popped the pill, WOW! I had a number of meetings throughout the day today and I was really shocked at how lucid I felt and how I could follow every topic in the conversation without having to first filter it through my emotion screen. Yesterday, conversing with others was almost as if through an emotional veil that obscured some of the verbal and non verbal cues ordinary people would pick up during a conversation and occassional I would lose the thread of what the conversation was about. Today however, everything was coming through rich, loud and clear, no static!!! Well this only day 1 so we’ll see how it goes. Tomorrow is the switch to Concerta and then the real work begins on the cognitive behavoir therapy and all that good stuff. But I now have hope… so I’ll post as often as I can and yes, it does feel good to share 
Re: Concerta? Does it work for you?2011-03-04T03:30:15+00:00