Posted by Ritch on September 10, 2002, at 10:18:44
In reply to Re: Uptight on Ritalin... what should I add?, posted by utopizen on September 10, 2002, at 0:03:23
> Propananol is a beta blocker, clonidine is an alpha agonist.
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> I can't take betas, because I take Salagen for dry mouth from all my meds, and it's not advised to mix the two. So that's why I'm thinking of Clonodine.
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> I think I'm "jittery" but I still don't exactly know what that means. I just feel uptight, physically, in my head, and in my thoughts. Like, I can read anything no matter how boring it is. So it's great for my schoolwork, it's like I've hired a dork to take over my body for a few hours and get some work done.
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> But the problem is I'm boring to others, and even to myself. I think of dorky things, things I shouldn't worry about in class, questions I should move on with instead of asking... in a word, I'm pedantic.
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> I had a dream last night, no joke, I went to this "dieitician doctor" and got Desoxyn written for me. Weird stuff. I will always wonder how I feel on it... obviously anxious though, if not more so. For some reason I'm enchanted about how meth can be sold so benignly and obscurely all at the same time... my p-doc does adolescent and adult psych., in a state that's known to be a ritalin state in an affluent suburb. So he must write a lot of stimulants. And he said he never heard of the stuff before. It shocked me.
Hi,So you're taking Effexor+Ritalin right now? Stimulants have a tendency to heighten obsessiveness. That works great when you *need* to stay on a 'single' task. The trouble comes when you have to "shift gears" temporarily and do something different and then return to the task. Socializing in the midst of all of that places demands on you to "switch tasks" easily and stims make it especially tough for that. I am on low-dose Effexor+Wellbutrin and if I nudge up the WB I have similar problems at work. I tend to get hungup on my work task, and have trouble, "stopping out" and socializing without boring people with shop-talk. Sometimes, even switching to an unrelated work-task can be difficult. SRI's tend to facilitate "task-switching", but unfortunately they also tend to make me foggy-headed. Prozac was the only one of them that would leave me relatively clear headed, but I can't stand to take it. Maybe you could just reduce your Ritalin dose or increase your Effexor, or switch the Effexor to a different SRI? Probably a tiny bit of Klonopin added on, might do just fine though.
Mitch
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