Re: Ritalin

[Anonymous]

Hello all! I’m new here so I figured i would dig right in… I was prescribed Ritalin about 4 years ago when I was diagnosed ‘again’ as an adult. My GP referred me to his child psychologist friend who was very well informed… did 80% of the test before he said nvm, you have ADD! He asked what I wanted to do and I told him I wanted to give drugs a try. He explained the different types of medications but suggested that Ritalin would probably suit my symptoms / personality best. He wrote me a prescription for 10mg tabs and told me to start off with 5mg, wait 1/2 hr if I didn’t notice anything and keep upping it till I felt ‘right’. He basically told me to experiment and have fun but to not exceed 25mg a day. After a bit of experimentation I found 15mg works well for about 5 hrs, which does me great at work when I get fidgety and bored around 1pm (20mg made me feel high) I don’t take it every day or even every week or month. Winter is worse because I spend more time at the computer. Effects-wise it enables me to clear my desk and delve deeply into tough challenges while being a highly motivated employee. I cherish deep and interesting conversation during these times and am virtually unstoppable. Only side effect is dry mouth, which is probably a good thing because then I drink lots of water and I tend to dehydrate myself normally. Love the stuff, love life, understand me more now, my wife is much more tolerant, and I don’t beat myself up for having 327 partially developed hobbies.

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