Posted by CindyB on December 14, 2004, at 22:17:33
I have been taking various SSRI's for Premenstral depression for over a decade now. Fatigue related to the SSRI's was becoming intolerable over the last few years. My doc tried different SSRI's and eventually added Wellbutrin. The Wellbutrin did help with the fatigue and had a side benefit of making me feel more "focused" mentally. I later read that Wellbutrin could help with ADD which lead me to think that I might have some form of AADD. Unfortunately Wellbutrin bothered my stomach “a lot”. I thought that an ADD medication might be a possible alternative and asked my doctor about it. She gave me an Rx for 20 mg Adderall-XR taken once per day in the AM with 2 refills to try. I've only taken it for a few days and feel pretty good on it. It gives me energy, a fairly dramatic improvement in my mental focus and makes me feel generally happier. Although I pretty much crash from it by late afternoon.
What is bothering me is that when I went to fill the Rx the pharmacist said she needed the docs DEA # as this drug is an amphetamine. Hearing this was a bit upsetting as I guess I associate amphetamines with dangerous, addictive, unhealthy “drugs”. Later I noticed that my Rx bottle had no refills despite my doc writing 2 refills on the script. When I called the pharmacist about it she said that refills are not “allowed” for this drug because of its DEA “classification”. I need a hand written script every time I fill it. It can’t even be phoned in as they need the doctors signature for every refill. How scary is that? I’m worried that I might be getting myself on something “dangerous”. If it didn’t work so well I would definitely be scared away from this by now. I guess I’m hoping to get assurances that this is not a dangerous, addictive unhealthy drug to be putting into my body.
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thread:429706
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